| Description |
1 online resource (498 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and color) |
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Green energy and technology |
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Green energy and technology.
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| Contents |
What are the barriers to environmental comfort in the Global South? -- Policies and standards to environmental comfort in the Global South -- Thermal performance of educational establishments in tropical climates: Case study of the Millennium Educational Units of Ecuador -- Bioclimatic comfort strategies for typical Meso-Andean dwellings in Peru -- Adaptive passive measures for tropical climates a case study for Mauritius -- Optimized housing envelopes for Piura, Peru -- Textile Architecture in the tropics: An approach from thermal comfort and implementation feasibility -- Air movement in relation to thermal comfort in naturally ventilated building in the tropics -- Occupant thermal perception of a hybrid system based on ceiling-mounted radiant cooling panels coupled to a roof pond -- Indoor air quality in Latin American buildings -- Daylighting metrics in buildings and the regional aspect -- Perception of light sufficiency and outdoor light availability: a dynamic daylight metric for the tropics -- Daylight strategies in side-lit spaces optimized for different Chilean climate contexts -- Circadian lighting in office spaces: design factors contributing to circadian stimulation -- Impact of urban re-densification on light consumption and energy poverty on the equator, in the city of Quito -- Acoustic comfort and noise control in residential building design -- Acoustic quality of school classrooms in urban areas -- Barriers and challenges in the interior acoustics design of flexible learning spaces -- Energy poverty and thermal adaptation in Chilean social housing -- Energy implications of thermal comfort models in schools in the tropics -- Energy efficiency optimization applying adaptive thermal comfort in a public office building in San Juan, Argentina -- Passive practical constructive measures to counterbalance climate change impacts in low-income housing located in the Tropical Savannah Climate -- Impact of passive design measures on thermal comfort of social housing in the context of climate change in Montevideo, Uruguay -- Thermal adaptation in non-extreme climates to potentially reduce energy consumption -- Promoting well-being in southern latitudes. A pathway to comfort by natural conditioning -- Multicriteria decision making of bioclimatic strategies based on parametric models -- The Grille Climatique as a design tool for the Tropics -- Multi-criteria design: Optimising thermal, visual, acoustic, and respiratory comfort in school classrooms. Urban design for comfort, energy efficiency and renewable systems in social housing -- To what extent can architects and engineers depend on the adaptive behaviour of occupants to achieve indoor thermal comfort? -- To what extent can architects and engineers depend on the adaptive behaviour of occupants to achieve indoor thermal comfort? -- The paradigm of environmental comfort: unattainable goal or design tool? -- Concluding Remarks and Future Outlook |
| Summary |
This book describes how comfort, energy and climate change in developing countries and vulnerable sectors of the population relate to buildings. The building sector is currently facing significant challenges connected to energy consumption, energy poverty and climate change effects. When studied in developing countries and vulnerable sectors of the population, these factors, which are commonplace in the tropics and the southern hemisphere, are interlinked and share a critical component: environmental comfort. Although progress has been made in environmental comfort through research and the development of standards and policies at the international level, in the Global South, where the countries with the highest levels of income inequality are concentrated, environmental comfort has its own characteristics and challenges that prevent a clear understanding from the established vision of the Global North. This book presents research, theories and techniques related to Thermal comfort, Indoor air quality, Visual comfort, and Acoustic comfort and its relationship with energy use and energy efficiency, seeking to address different barriers to environmental comfort. It shows how to improve the way buildings are designed and operated to promote healthier environmental conditions and more sustainable construction, by presenting studies and reflections carried out in the target geographical area: the Global South. In this way, this book contributes to developing the concept of environmental comfort, visualising how progress has been made in understanding it from a tropical and southern perspective, and posing common challenges. The book is intended for engineers, architects, and researchers of the built environment who are interested in environmental comfort and its influence on energy consumption, energy poverty, and other related factors in the Global South context. It is also a useful resource for decision-makers and public policy developers concerned with the indoor comfort of buildings. Moreover, the book aims to provide guidance for those in developing countries by gathering existing knowledge in the field for the tropics and southern hemisphere climatic and sociocultural contexts, allowing us to move forward in this subject with actions and proposed solutions that fit our particular needs |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 27, 2023) |
| Subject |
Buildings -- Environmental engineering -- Developing countries
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Architecture -- Human factors -- Developing countries
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Architecture -- Human factors
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Buildings -- Environmental engineering
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Developing countries
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Marín-Restrepo, Laura, editor
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Pérez-Fargallo, Alexis, editor
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Piderit-Moreno, María Beatriz, editor
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Trebilcock K., Maureen (Trebilcock Kelly), editor.
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Wegertseder-Martínez, Paulina, editor
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| ISBN |
9783031242083 |
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3031242084 |
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