Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introductory Insights to Climate Change Challenges -- Climate Change: Nature and Emerging Trends -- Regional Implications -- Urbanization and Climate Change -- Global Political Initiatives and Overtones -- Green Economics Dialogue and the Built Environment -- Strategic Environmental Impact Assessment -- Methods for Valuing Preferences for Environmental and Natural Resources: An Overview -- Ecological Value of Urban Environments -- The Pedological Value of Urban Landscapes -- Insights and Perceptions of Sustainable Design and Construction -- Progress in Eco and Resilient Construction Materials Development -- Energy Efficiency: Alternative Routes to Mitigation -- The Benefits of Green Infrastructure in Towns and Cities -- Particulate-Induced Soiling on Historic Limestone Buildings: Insights and the Effects of Climate Change -- Sustainable Transportation -- Linkages of Waste Management Strategies and Climate Change Issues -- Climate Change and the Geotechnical Stability of ‘Engineered’ Landfill Sites -- Water Resources Issues and Solutions for the Built Environment: Too Little Versus Too Much -- Organisational Culture and Climate Change Driven Construction -- Preparing for Extreme Weather Events: A Risk Assessment Approach -- The Socio-Environmental Vulnerability Assessment Approach to Mapping Vulnerability to Climate -- Mitigation via Renewables -- Complexities and Approaches to Managing the Adaptation of Climate Change by Coastal Communities -- Lessons for the Future -- Index.

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"The multi-disciplinary perspective provided here offers a strategic view on built environment issues and improve understanding of how built environment activities potentially induce global warming and climate change. It also highlights solutions to these challenges. Solutions to Climate change Challenges in the Built Environment helps develop an appreciation of the diverse themes of the climate change debate across the built environment continuum. A wide perspective is provided through contributions from physical, environmental, social, economic and political scientists. This strategic view on built environment issues will be useful to researchers as well as policy experts and construction practitioners wanting a holistic view. This book clarifies complex issues around climate change and follows five main themes: climate change experiences; urban landscape development; urban management issues; measurement of impact; and the future. Chapters are written by eminent specialists from both academic and professional backgrounds. The main context for chapters is the developed world but the discussion is widened to incorporate regional issues. The book will be valuable to researchers and students in all the built environment disciplines, as well as to practitioners involved with the design, construction and maintenance of buildings, and government organisations developing and implementing climate change policy"-- Provided by publisher.