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  • How Much Energy Does Your Building Use?

    by Kerry Mashford, Liz Reason ...
    Series series DoShorts
    Why do award-winning "green" buildings so often have higher energy bills than ordinary buildings? Why do expensive refurbishments deliver outcomes that are far from the promises of improved sustainability? Why does your building have high running costs and still the occupants complain about being too cold or too hot and are otherwise dissatisfied?The failure of many countries to produce buildings ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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  • The Passivhaus Handbook

    A practical guide to constructing and retrofitting buildings for ultra-low energy performance

    by Janet Cotterell, Adam Dadeby ...
    Series series Sustainable Building
    'As we move towards the 2016 zero carbon target in house building, Passivhaus construction looks like becoming not just popular in the UK, but commonplace. This is a no-nonsense and engaging introduction on how to do it.' KEVIN MCCLOUD-The Passivhaus Handbook is an essential guide for anyone wanting to realise a supremely comfortable, healthy and durable home with exceptionally low energy costs ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Turnaround Challenge

    Business and the City of the Future

    by Michael Blowfield, Leo Johnson ...
    Do we have the rights to optimism? Can capitalism deliver a next great wave of growth? The future, wrote William Gibson, is already here. It just isn't evenly distributed yet. Lucid and polemical, Turnaround Challenge is a dig into that future and its meaning for business. It dissects the nexus of social, economic, environmental and governance crises confronting us, and a series of colliding ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Integrated Reporting and Audit Quality

    An Empirical Analysis in the European Setting

    by Chiara Demartini, Sara Trucco ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book analyzes the relationship between integrated reporting and audit quality within the European context, presenting empirical evidence and drawing on a broad review of the available literature in order to evaluate the ability of integrated reporting to enhance audit risk assessment. Dedicated sections first elucidate the concepts of integrated reporting and audit quality. The main ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Sustainability and Energy Politics

    Ecological Modernisation and Corporate Social Responsibility

    by Giorel Curran ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The author explores the fraught politics of energy transitions in an age of climate change. She does so through an ecological modernisation and corporate social responsibility lens which she contends shapes and underpins sustainability today. Case studies cover climate policy, unconventional gas and renewable energy. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Scaling up Business Solutions to Social Problems

    A Practical Guide for Social and Corporate Entrepreneurs

    by O. Kayser, V. Budinich ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    A silent revolution is underway, as entrepreneurs challenge prevalent notions of business motives and methods to invent market-based solutions to eradicate social injustice. Yet many fail to succeed. Based on original research, the authors uncover why impressive solutions fail to scale up, featuring global case studies and practical solutions. ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Renewable Energy Resources

    by John Twidell ...
    Renewable Energy Resources is a numerate and quantitative text. It covers the many renewables technologies implemented worldwide by harnessing sustainable resources, mitigating pollution and climate change, and providing cost effective services.This fourth edition is extensively updated by John Twidell with global developments as underpinned by fundamental analysis and illustrated by case studies ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Sustainable Value Management for Construction Projects

    by Ayodeji E. Oke, Clinton O. Aigbavboa ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This book provides a unique guide to value management and sustainability in construction to researchers and professional. The book provides a better understanding of the concept of value management, the basis of sustainable construction and thereafter, demonstrates how using the principles of value management can help to achieve successful construction projects that are financially viable, ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Corporate Responsibility for Cultural Heritage

    Conservation, Sustainable Development, and Corporate Reputation

    by Fiona Starr ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Heritage
    This book examines the relationship between two divergent fields – corporate activity and heritage conservation – linking the financing of conservation and its benefits with the corporate social responsibility (CSR) goals of the private sector. Through discussion of physical conservation, benefits to heritage site visitors, sustainable development impacts, and corporate benefits such as improved ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Sustainable Living: the Role of Whole Life Costs and Values

    by Nalanie Mithraratne, Brenda Vale, Robert Vale ...
    Achieving a sustainable building is not just a matter of design and construction: what happens once the building is occupied is absolutely critical. This book shows how the choices designers, developers and building users make impact on sustainability over the life span of the building. The authors show how a holistic approach considering costs, energy use, environmental impact, global warming ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Progressive Business Models

    Creating Sustainable and Pro-Social Enterprise

    Edited by Eleanor O'Higgins, László Zsolnai ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book presents and analyses exemplary cases of progressive business, understood as ecologically sustainable, future-respecting and pro-social enterprise. The authors present a number of companies following progressive business practices from a range of industries including ethical and sustainable banking, artisan coffee production and distribution, pharmaceutical products, clean technology, ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • System Innovation for Sustainability 4

    Case Studies in Sustainable Consumption and Production � Energy Use and the Built Environment

    Edited by Saadi Lahlou ...
    Buildings have a long lifetime, and so they are a major target for any structural changes in consumption patterns. Conversely, long lifetimes come with associated strong inertia. This book examines the opportunities to influence energy consumption in housing and buildings, and provides options for implementation at a macro, meso and micro level. ... Read more

    $56.99 USD