Global Warming and the Built Environment
Contributors: Deo K. Prasad (Editor)
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published: August 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780419192107
Subjects: Environmental Science; General; City & town planning - architectural aspects; Global warming; Architecture And The Environment; Environmental Engineering (General); Environmental Studies; Architecture
First sentence: The global environmental malaise confronting us today is symptomathic of a human malaise: an attitude that individuals have a right to pursue the good life with no concomitant duty of care to ensure that future generations also partake of that good life.
Description: Impending climatic change represents a challenge to professionals and practitioners involved with design and management of the built environment. This book discusses the interaction between the built and natural environments, and charts the developments in social responsibility.