NIMBY or not? Exploring the relevance of location and the
... opposition to a specific type of facility. This paper will be consistent with much of the recent literature and focus mainly on individuals. Some empirical studies (e.g. Ek, 2005; Warren et al., 2005) set out to measure ‘NIMBY effects’ regardless of the stage of development of the project, although i ...
... opposition to a specific type of facility. This paper will be consistent with much of the recent literature and focus mainly on individuals. Some empirical studies (e.g. Ek, 2005; Warren et al., 2005) set out to measure ‘NIMBY effects’ regardless of the stage of development of the project, although i ...
No.1 Silo - Solution Station
... sustainable design principles and the efficient use of natural and energy resources,” he says. The No. 1 Silo development is one of Africa’s most advanced intelligent buildings. Through innovative design solutions, combined with proven technology, the building works with the environment rather than ...
... sustainable design principles and the efficient use of natural and energy resources,” he says. The No. 1 Silo development is one of Africa’s most advanced intelligent buildings. Through innovative design solutions, combined with proven technology, the building works with the environment rather than ...
Министерство образования Республики Беларусь
... warming and pollution. It suggested that these trends might be slowed, but only if nations work together to address radically the global consumption of natural resources and energy, and to halt man’s degradation of the environment. Sustainability requires us to think holistically. The location and f ...
... warming and pollution. It suggested that these trends might be slowed, but only if nations work together to address radically the global consumption of natural resources and energy, and to halt man’s degradation of the environment. Sustainability requires us to think holistically. The location and f ...
Participatory Backcasting from Principles
... by the natural principles and the social principles designed by stakeholder engagement. Any method can be chosen to support shape those scenarios. With principles defined by a participatory backcasting, a more decentralized process can take place: it is possible to create multiple scenarios as a gro ...
... by the natural principles and the social principles designed by stakeholder engagement. Any method can be chosen to support shape those scenarios. With principles defined by a participatory backcasting, a more decentralized process can take place: it is possible to create multiple scenarios as a gro ...
Return To Rio - Expanding the Covey Model
... Similarly, CB facilitators will typically not have the full knowledge of how to carry through a full corporate diagnostic and culture change, and aren’t likely to be able to fulfil a client’s needs, but in concert with Covey trainers, they’d be a winning team. For environmentalists, it makes sense ...
... Similarly, CB facilitators will typically not have the full knowledge of how to carry through a full corporate diagnostic and culture change, and aren’t likely to be able to fulfil a client’s needs, but in concert with Covey trainers, they’d be a winning team. For environmentalists, it makes sense ...
BLAH, BLAH, BLAH: TOWARDS A BIOGEOCHEMICAL ATLAS FOR
... The Lower Onkaparinga River is 40 km south of Adelaide, extending inland from the mouth of the Onkaparinga River at Port Noarlunga to the east through the Onkaparinga Gorge and into the southern Mount Lofty Ranges (Dept Environment & Planning 1991). This study area is centred on the lower part of th ...
... The Lower Onkaparinga River is 40 km south of Adelaide, extending inland from the mouth of the Onkaparinga River at Port Noarlunga to the east through the Onkaparinga Gorge and into the southern Mount Lofty Ranges (Dept Environment & Planning 1991). This study area is centred on the lower part of th ...
A new paradigm of urban development: envisioning
... Today’s awareness is about the environment and minimizing the use of energy. Subsequently today’s architecture concerns the changes in the atmosphere and how to protect it. The trend wasn’t negotiated in old architecture. This is because of using local building materials and trend that meet the envi ...
... Today’s awareness is about the environment and minimizing the use of energy. Subsequently today’s architecture concerns the changes in the atmosphere and how to protect it. The trend wasn’t negotiated in old architecture. This is because of using local building materials and trend that meet the envi ...
... process, to simplify construction management, and to provide the owner with inherently better capabilities for ongoing facilities management during building occupancy. The initial benefits of BIM were seen through the lens of economics: by making building design, construction, and maintenance more e ...
PDF - svbps Mollier
... f this 16th board I’m the only person who has not been introduced previously. Luckily I have the possibility to do this here briefly. My name is Rik Maaijen, born on the 23th of September 1987 in a small town in Utrecht called Oudewater. I lived happily for many years in this historic town surrounde ...
... f this 16th board I’m the only person who has not been introduced previously. Luckily I have the possibility to do this here briefly. My name is Rik Maaijen, born on the 23th of September 1987 in a small town in Utrecht called Oudewater. I lived happily for many years in this historic town surrounde ...
Mixed Use Development Guidelines
... as "urban design," and these guidelines provide clear examples of the practices that are necessary for the creation of successful, memorable places within the City of Virginia Beach. Urban design is intended to bring order, clarity and a pleasing harmony to the urban places within the city. Urban de ...
... as "urban design," and these guidelines provide clear examples of the practices that are necessary for the creation of successful, memorable places within the City of Virginia Beach. Urban design is intended to bring order, clarity and a pleasing harmony to the urban places within the city. Urban de ...
Constructing sustainability - BMUB
... Monitoring: from theory to practice Creating a passive building – the great challenge One particularly ambitious goal was to achieve passive-house standards for the new part of the building. This limits heating requirements to 15 kilowatt-hours, the equivalent of one and a half litres of heating oi ...
... Monitoring: from theory to practice Creating a passive building – the great challenge One particularly ambitious goal was to achieve passive-house standards for the new part of the building. This limits heating requirements to 15 kilowatt-hours, the equivalent of one and a half litres of heating oi ...
Contents and Measures of Sustainable Progress: the
... - adjusting GDP: aims to correct the existing national accounts and, in particular, the GDP (e.g. ISEW, GPI, Green GDP, ANS); - replacing GDP: aims to create altogether new indicators or indices with innovative assumptions (e.g. HDI, EF, ESI, HPI); - supplementing GDP: aims to be complemented with a ...
... - adjusting GDP: aims to correct the existing national accounts and, in particular, the GDP (e.g. ISEW, GPI, Green GDP, ANS); - replacing GDP: aims to create altogether new indicators or indices with innovative assumptions (e.g. HDI, EF, ESI, HPI); - supplementing GDP: aims to be complemented with a ...
8 Urbanisation
... Australians live on the smallest continent and in the sixth largest country on Earth. With a population of 23 million and an area of 7 690 000 square kilometres, our population density is 2.9 people per square kilometre. We may think of ourselves as an outback-loving, farming nation, but we mostly ...
... Australians live on the smallest continent and in the sixth largest country on Earth. With a population of 23 million and an area of 7 690 000 square kilometres, our population density is 2.9 people per square kilometre. We may think of ourselves as an outback-loving, farming nation, but we mostly ...
Construction of Digital Elevation Models
... building height (H), planar area index (lp), frontal area index (lf), and other measurable parameters related to the urban morphology (e.g., Cionco and Ellefsen 1998; Grimmond and Oke 1999). Urban morphometric analyses have been conducted more widely in the United States (Burian et al. 2007) than in ...
... building height (H), planar area index (lp), frontal area index (lf), and other measurable parameters related to the urban morphology (e.g., Cionco and Ellefsen 1998; Grimmond and Oke 1999). Urban morphometric analyses have been conducted more widely in the United States (Burian et al. 2007) than in ...
Energy Efficient Urban Configurations for Residential Projects in Cairo
... energy efficiency principle on the built environment are available, but this research focuses specifically on the fundamental role of urban design in energy conservation. The research draws out twelve main design principles that outline energy efficient urban configurations in residential projects i ...
... energy efficiency principle on the built environment are available, but this research focuses specifically on the fundamental role of urban design in energy conservation. The research draws out twelve main design principles that outline energy efficient urban configurations in residential projects i ...
View/Open
... Abstract. Currently an industrial perspective dominates the EU policy framework for a European bio-economy. The Commission’s proposal on the bio-economy emphasises greater resource-efficiency, largely within an industrial perspective on global economic competitiveness, benefiting capital-intensive i ...
... Abstract. Currently an industrial perspective dominates the EU policy framework for a European bio-economy. The Commission’s proposal on the bio-economy emphasises greater resource-efficiency, largely within an industrial perspective on global economic competitiveness, benefiting capital-intensive i ...
Most susTAInable building and project in latvia 2013
... streets- K. Valdemara street with the status of city street and the silent Alojas street. The closing back walls of the building are made fireproof thus allowing for continued construction of buildings along the perimeter of the respective block of K. Valdemara street. Retreating from the red line, ...
... streets- K. Valdemara street with the status of city street and the silent Alojas street. The closing back walls of the building are made fireproof thus allowing for continued construction of buildings along the perimeter of the respective block of K. Valdemara street. Retreating from the red line, ...
National report
... ensure they remain the economic driving force they already were in the Middle Ages, at a time when they only housed 10 per cent of the population (see Le Goff 3). The challenges we face today are therefore consequential. The city, a place of opportunity and challenge The populations of cities in de ...
... ensure they remain the economic driving force they already were in the Middle Ages, at a time when they only housed 10 per cent of the population (see Le Goff 3). The challenges we face today are therefore consequential. The city, a place of opportunity and challenge The populations of cities in de ...
The Vitality and Turmoil of Urban Life, 1877– 1920
... Although scientific and technological breakthroughs improved urban life, the burden of urban poverty remained. While some reformers began to look to environmental factors to explain poverty, traditional attitudes toward poverty—attitudes that blamed the victim—restricted what most Americans were wil ...
... Although scientific and technological breakthroughs improved urban life, the burden of urban poverty remained. While some reformers began to look to environmental factors to explain poverty, traditional attitudes toward poverty—attitudes that blamed the victim—restricted what most Americans were wil ...
Tall Buildings: Sustainable Design Opportunities - ctbuh
... the viewers’ eyes towards the heavens.” Although one first considers tall buildings from atheistic and real estate perspectives, the demands of skyscrapers have pushed development of both architectural and innovative engineering principles. Of the numerous aspects of modern technology incorporated w ...
... the viewers’ eyes towards the heavens.” Although one first considers tall buildings from atheistic and real estate perspectives, the demands of skyscrapers have pushed development of both architectural and innovative engineering principles. Of the numerous aspects of modern technology incorporated w ...
Construction of Digital Elevation Models for a
... building height H, planar area index lp, frontal area index lf, and other measurable parameters related to the urban morphology (e.g., Cionco and Ellefsen 1998; Grimmond and Oke 1999). Urban morphometric analyses have been conducted more widely in the United States (Burian et al. 2007) than in Europ ...
... building height H, planar area index lp, frontal area index lf, and other measurable parameters related to the urban morphology (e.g., Cionco and Ellefsen 1998; Grimmond and Oke 1999). Urban morphometric analyses have been conducted more widely in the United States (Burian et al. 2007) than in Europ ...
Study Guide - Cengage Learning
... In Chapter 19, we examine urban growth, the third major theme (along with natural resource development and industrialization) associated with American expansion in the late nineteenth century. Urban industrial development combined with mass transportation and urban growth to destroy the old pedestri ...
... In Chapter 19, we examine urban growth, the third major theme (along with natural resource development and industrialization) associated with American expansion in the late nineteenth century. Urban industrial development combined with mass transportation and urban growth to destroy the old pedestri ...
Aalborg Universitet Strategies for Integrative Building Design
... advanced building management system (BMS). This opens a new world of opportunities. Buildings no longer act as ridged objects that need a large heating installation in winter and big cooling equipment during summer to “correct” the indoor climate, but buildings become an additional “living” skin aro ...
... advanced building management system (BMS). This opens a new world of opportunities. Buildings no longer act as ridged objects that need a large heating installation in winter and big cooling equipment during summer to “correct” the indoor climate, but buildings become an additional “living” skin aro ...
Design Principles and Strategies for Lifespan-Based Building
... Societies and economies the world over develop on the wheels of infrastructure. This is to say that infrastructure makes available the physical structures such as roads, railways, ports and harbours, water supply systems, sewers, electrical grids, telecommunication systems and buildings needed to pr ...
... Societies and economies the world over develop on the wheels of infrastructure. This is to say that infrastructure makes available the physical structures such as roads, railways, ports and harbours, water supply systems, sewers, electrical grids, telecommunication systems and buildings needed to pr ...
Terms
... the social networks of middle-class English families drew upon discussions with anthropologists at the University of Manchester (66). Network analysis, used to study the social organization of city residents, was also used to understand the rapidly urbanizing populations of Africa (156) and Latin Am ...
... the social networks of middle-class English families drew upon discussions with anthropologists at the University of Manchester (66). Network analysis, used to study the social organization of city residents, was also used to understand the rapidly urbanizing populations of Africa (156) and Latin Am ...