Research Guides: ESL400: Climate Change: Built Environment

Built Environment

The built environment represents one of the greatest opportunities to curb emissions, provide ecosystem services, and ensure accessible, high quality education for all. Buildings are not simply places to learn, connect, and grow. They are teaching tools with lessons behind each process, dollar, and piece of material that goes into their design, construction, and operation.

Possible Search Terms

Greenbelt

sustainable building
sustainable building practices
sustainable construction
LEED
LEED buildings
LEED certified
green building
sustainable design
architecture architects

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Sustainable Building Design
Call Number: Ebook
ISBN: 1119063760
Publication Date: 2017
An inside view of how one of the world's leading architecture and engineering practice does business Sustainable Built Environments: Principles and Practice offers detailed, environmentally sound design solutions to a wide range of building engineering challenges.
Green Building Illustrated
Call Number: CSM Library Upper Level: TH880.C48 2014
ISBN: 9781118562376
Publication Date: 2014
This book covers all aspects of sustainability, providing a framework and detailed strategies to design buildings that are substantively green. The book begins with an explanation of why we need to build green, the theories behind it and current rating systems before moving on to a comprehensive discussion of vital topics.
Designed for the Future
Call Number: Ebook
ISBN: 1616894237
Publication Date: 2015
Designed for the Future: 80 Practical Ideas for a Sustainable World asks American and international landscape architects, architects, planners, urban designers, policymakers, writers, and sustainable designers to answer the question in five hundred words or less. Each person outlines how a project or design practice, historic or contemporary, has created a more positive relationship between the built and natural environments, and helps solve the complex social, economic, and environmental challenges facing twenty-first-century communities.
Green Buildings Pay
Call Number: Ebook
ISBN: 0415685354
Publication Date: 2013
There is growing recognition that the environmental quality of workplaces has a measurable impact on health, wellbeing and hence productivity. There is also increasing evidence that the environmental design of classrooms enhances learning and that green schools bring wider social and economic benefits beyond that of reduced energy consumption. The third edition of Green Buildings Pay presents new evidence and new arguments concerning the institutional and business case that can be made for green design.

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