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Book SynopsisThe most productive way to engage society as a whole with issues of sustainability is to involve them in the development and execution of the solutions. Pragmatic Engineering and Lifestyle draws together international experts from engineering and architecture to disclose the latest insights into forging viable means to sustain tomorrow’s needs.
Focusing on breaking through the remaining barriers and fully realizing promising remedies by explicitly examining the social aspect of engineering and urban design, the authors present state of the art research on, among other topics, simple and responsible engineering and living, ecological and socially friendly buildings and infrastructures, socially resilient farming, and agroecology.
Pragmatic Engineering and Lifestyle is an indispensable collection for tomorrow's engineers, architects, and policy makers.
Table of ContentsChapter 1. High-Rise Developments: A Critical Review of the Nature and Extent of their Sustainability; Kheir Al-Kodmany
Chapter 2. Application of Expert Decision Systems on Optimal Fiber Selection for Green Building Design Components; Figen Balo and Lutfu S. Sua
Chapter 3. Advances in Solar Driven Air Conditioning Systems for Buildings; Sonali A. Deshmukh, Praveen Barmavatu, Mihir Kumar Das, Bukke Kiran Naik, Vineet Singh Sikarwar, Alety Shivakrishna, Radhamanohar Aepuru, and Rathod Subash
Chapter 4. Evaluating Water-based Trombe Walls as a Source of Heated Water for Building Applications; Harmeet Singh, Fatemeh Massah, and Paul G. O’Brien
Chapter 5. Investigating Waste Management Efficiencies and Dynamics of the EU Region; Fazil Gökgöz and Engin Yalçin
Chapter 6. The Multi-pronged Approach of Solid Waste Management toward Zero Waste to Landfill Site: An Indonesia and Thailand Experience; Ariva Sugandi Permana, Sholihin As’ad, and Chantamon Potipituk
Chapter 7. Conservation; Waste Reduction / Zero Waste; Shima Yazdani and Esmail Lakzian
Chapter 8. Adoption of Green Building Practices in Kenya: A Case of Kakamega Municipality; Edwin K. Kanda, Elizabeth Lusweti, Francis N. Ngugi, John M. Irungu, Bernard O. Omondi, and Samuel G. Waweru
Chapter 9. Transient Thermodynamic Modeling of Heat Recovery from a Compressed Air Energy Storage System; Mehdi Ebrahimi, David S-K. Ting, and Rupp Carriveau
Chapter 10. Trawl Fisheries Management and Conservation in Malacca Straits; Hoong Sang Wong and Chen Chen Yong
