Climate Change And The Indoor Environment

Author : Institute of Medicine,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Committee on the Effect of Climate Change on Indoor Air Quality and Public Health
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309209410

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Climate Change, the Indoor Environment, and Health by Institute of Medicine,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Committee on the Effect of Climate Change on Indoor Air Quality and Public Health Pdf

The indoor environment affects occupants' health and comfort. Poor environmental conditions and indoor contaminants are estimated to cost the U.S. economy tens of billions of dollars a year in exacerbation of illnesses like asthma, allergic symptoms, and subsequent lost productivity. Climate change has the potential to affect the indoor environment because conditions inside buildings are influenced by conditions outside them. Climate Change, the Indoor Environment, and Health addresses the impacts that climate change may have on the indoor environment and the resulting health effects. It finds that steps taken to mitigate climate change may cause or exacerbate harmful indoor environmental conditions. The book discusses the role the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) should take in informing the public, health professionals, and those in the building industry about potential risks and what can be done to address them. The study also recommends that building codes account for climate change projections; that federal agencies join to develop or refine protocols and testing standards for evaluating emissions from materials, furnishings, and appliances used in buildings; and that building weatherization efforts include consideration of health effects. Climate Change, the Indoor Environment, and Health is written primarily for the EPA and other federal agencies, organizations, and researchers with interests in public health; the environment; building design, construction, and operation; and climate issues.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture and energy conservation
ISBN : 1903287502

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Climate Change and the Indoor Environment by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture and energy conservation
ISBN : 1680150146

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Climate Change and the Indoor Environment by Anonim Pdf

Author : Susan Roaf,David Crichton,Fergus Nicol
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781856177207

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Adapting Buildings and Cities for Climate Change by Susan Roaf,David Crichton,Fergus Nicol Pdf

This book provides insights into how we can protect our buildings, cities, infra-structures and lifestyles against risks associated with extreme weather and related social, economic and energy events. There are three new chapters present evidence of escalating rates of environmental change; and the authors explore the growing urgency for mitigation and adaptation responses that deal with the resulting challenges.

Author : Philomena Bluyssen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136544811

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The Indoor Environment Handbook by Philomena Bluyssen Pdf

Winner of the Choice Outstanding Academic Titles of 2010 award. Ensuring that buildings are healthy and comfortable for their occupants is a primary concern of all architects and building engineers. This highly practical handbook will help make that process more efficient and effective. It begins with a guide to how the human body and senses react to different indoor environmental conditions, together with basic information on the parameters of the indoor environment and problems that can occur. It then moves on to give a background to the development of the study and control of the indoor environment, examining the main considerations (including thermal, lighting, indoor air and sound-related aspects) for a healthy and comfortable indoor environment and discussing the drivers for change in the field. The final section presents a new approach towards health and comfort in the indoor environment, where meeting the wishes and demands of the occupants with a holistic strategy becomes the over-riding priority. The book is filled with useful facts, figures and analysis, and practical methods that designers who are keen to assess and improve the user experience of their buildings will find invaluable.

Author : Philomena Bluyssen
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781849774611

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The Indoor Environment Handbook by Philomena Bluyssen Pdf

Ensuring that buildings are healthy and comfortable for their occupants is a primary concern of all architects and building engineers. This highly practical handbook will help make that process more efficient and effective.

Author : David Crichton,Fergus Nicol
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006-08-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136431050

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Adapting Buildings and Cities for Climate Change by David Crichton,Fergus Nicol Pdf

From the author of the bestseller 'Ecohouse' this challenging and exciting text gives you an insight into the real changes that are necessary to give our modern day built environment both 'sustainability' and 'survivability'. The book is based on the premise that climate change is going to happen and its impacts on our lives are going to be far worse than generally expected. Sue Roaf argues that many modern buildings are not only 'unsustainable' in themselves but are also having a catastrophic effect on the global climate. In a unique argument, she illustrates that the only way we can hope to survive the following century in tact is if we not only begin to radically reduce CO2 emissions from our buildings and stop building climatically disastrous building types but also build only the buildings that can survive in the changed climates of the future. Throughout the book, traditional and modern building types are used to: explain the history and impacts of climates past, present and future on buildings; set the scene in terms of the history of building development of where we are now and where we are going in terms of sustainability and survivability of buildings; develop two main scenarios of future building development with the 'business as usual' model and the 'survival plan' model, and to make a list of recommendations based on the two scenarios of what actions should be taken by architects, planners and engineers as well as local and national governments, businesses and ordinary people in ensuring the true sustainable nature of the built environment.

Author : National Research Council,National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Indoor Pollutants,Assembly of Life Sciences (U.S.). Committee on Indoor Pollutants,National Research Council Staff,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Commission on Life Sciences,Board on Toxicology and Environmental Health Hazards,Life Sciences Commission,Indoor Pollutants Committee,Division on Earth and Life Studies Staff
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Indoor Pollutants by National Research Council,National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Indoor Pollutants,Assembly of Life Sciences (U.S.). Committee on Indoor Pollutants,National Research Council Staff,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Commission on Life Sciences,Board on Toxicology and Environmental Health Hazards,Life Sciences Commission,Indoor Pollutants Committee,Division on Earth and Life Studies Staff Pdf

Discusses pollution from tobacco smoke, radon and radon progeny, asbestos and other fibers, formaldehyde, indoor combustion, aeropathogens and allergens, consumer products, moisture, microwave radiation, ultraviolet radiation, odors, radioactivity, and dirt and discusses means of controlling or eliminating them.

Author : Orhan Korhan
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-25
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781789843736

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Indoor Environment and Health by Orhan Korhan Pdf

A shelter is one of the physiological needs according to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, which lies at the bottom of the pyramid. People spend around 90% of their time in shelters, or in today's words: buildings. They sleep, eat, work, relax, exercise, play, are born, and die in these buildings. In fact, they "live" within walls. Therefore, an indoor environment is crucial for their health and safety. This book, therefore, addresses the issues related to the impact of a sustainable healthy and comfortable indoor environment on the quality of life, and perceives the required indoor conditions for productivity and effectiveness. Thereby, this book is designed to include issues and extensive discussions on thermal comfort, indoor air quality, visual comfort, acoustic comfort, productivity, and indoor health and safety. The concepts of heating, ventilation, air conditioning, external temperature, air pollution, sick building, indoor pollutants, illumination, glare, indoor lighting, daylight, noise, construction materials, sound intensity, and furniture on the indoor environment are described in detail in this book.

Author : John A Matthews
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 3227 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-13
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781473928190

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Encyclopedia of Environmental Change by John A Matthews Pdf

Accessibly written by a team of international authors, the Encyclopedia of Environmental Change provides a gateway to the complex facts, concepts, techniques, methodology and philosophy of environmental change. This three-volume set illustrates and examines topics within this dynamic and rapidly changing interdisciplinary field. The encyclopedia includes all of the following aspects of environmental change: Diverse evidence of environmental change, including climate change and changes on land and in the oceans Underlying natural and anthropogenic causes and mechanisms Wide-ranging local, regional and global impacts from the polar regions to the tropics Responses of geo-ecosystems and human-environmental systems in the face of past, present and future environmental change Approaches, methodologies and techniques used for reconstructing, dating, monitoring, modelling, projecting and predicting change Social, economic and political dimensions of environmental issues, environmental conservation and management and environmental policy Over 4,000 entries explore the following key themes and more: Conservation Demographic change Environmental management Environmental policy Environmental security Food security Glaciation Green Revolution Human impact on environment Industrialization Landuse change Military impacts on environment Mining and mining impacts Nuclear energy Pollution Renewable resources Solar energy Sustainability Tourism Trade Water resources Water security Wildlife conservation The comprehensive coverage of terminology includes layers of entries ranging from one-line definitions to short essays, making this an invaluable companion for any student of physical geography, environmental geography or environmental sciences.

Author : David Bienvenido-Huertas,Carlos Rubio-Bellido
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789811609060

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Adaptive Thermal Comfort of Indoor Environment for Residential Buildings by David Bienvenido-Huertas,Carlos Rubio-Bellido Pdf

This book is structured in four parts: First, it analyzes the sustainability objectives established for the building stock and the importance of thermal comfort in this aspect. Second, the existing adaptive thermal comfort models and the main energy-saving measures associated with these models are analyzed. Third, the energy savings obtained with these measures are analyzed in several case studies, comparing the results obtained with other energy conservation measures, such as the improvement of the façade. The analysis is carried out from an energy and economic perspective. Finally, a decision‐making process based on fuzzy logic is established. As an expected result, the content of the book contributes to assist architects in designing more efficient buildings from the perspective of user behavior.

Author : Elizabeth Shove,Heather Chappells,Loren Lutzenhiser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317988809

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Comfort in a Lower Carbon Society by Elizabeth Shove,Heather Chappells,Loren Lutzenhiser Pdf

Current expectations and standards of comfort are almost certainly unsustainable and new methods and ideas will be required if there is to be any prospect of a significantly lower carbon society. This collection reassesses relationships between people and the multitude of environments they inhabit in the context of increasing carbon intensities of everyday life. In this bold and unconventional volume historians, sociologists, environmentalists, geographers, and cultural theorists provoke and stimulate debate about the future of comfort in a lower carbon society. These contributions are then subject to critical commentary from a range of academic and policy perspectives. The result is a book that promotes academic and policy discussion of the environmental consequences of indoor climate change around the world, and that offers new perspectives and strategies for moving towards a lower carbon future. This book was published as a special issue of Building Research & Information.

Author : Nicholas A. Robinson,Wang Xi,Lin Harmon,Sarah Wegmueller
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780857935786

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Dictionary of Environmental and Climate Change Law by Nicholas A. Robinson,Wang Xi,Lin Harmon,Sarah Wegmueller Pdf

This state-of-the-art Dictionary defines terms employed in international agreements, national legislation and scholarly legal studies related to comparative and international environmental law and the emerging law of climate change. In acknowledgement of ChinaÕs growing role in this arena, each term also includes its pinyin translation in order to facilitate access to the Mandarin variants. The international community is developing increasingly complex environmental provisions and participating in a number of international treaties and agreements related to environmental law and regulation. The complicated and highly specific nature of environmental law has led to the development of localized terminology that is not easily understood outside its country of origin. Jointly prepared by scholars in China and the US, the Dictionary provides a linguistic bridge between English and Chinese speakers as well as an essential reference for those interpreting and applying international environmental law, multilateral environmental agreements, and domestic laws that implement these treaties. Students, scholars and practitioners in the area of environmental law will find this groundbreaking Dictionary an invaluable addition to their libraries.

Author : Muhammad Abdul Mujeebu
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781789852516

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Indoor Environmental Quality by Muhammad Abdul Mujeebu Pdf

This book deals with indoor environmental quality (IEQ), which encompasses diverse factors that affect human life inside a building. These factors include indoor air quality (IAQ), lighting, acoustics, drinking water, ergonomics, electromagnetic radiation, and so on. Enhanced environmental quality can improve the quality of life and productivity of the occupants, increase the resale value of the building, and minimize the penalties on building owners. The book covers an overview of IEQ and its research progress, IAQ and its monitoring, the best indoor illumination scenes, IEQ in healthcare buildings, and acoustic comfort in residential buildings and places of worship. This book is expected to benefit undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers, teachers, practitioners, policy makers, and every individual who has a concern for healthy life.

Author : Reiko Kishi,Dan Norbäck,Atsuko Araki
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789813291829

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Indoor Environmental Quality and Health Risk toward Healthier Environment for All by Reiko Kishi,Dan Norbäck,Atsuko Araki Pdf

This volume discusses the effects of indoor air environment and pollution in modern buildings on human health. Highlighting epidemiological studies and the determining factors, it offers proposals for improving indoor air quality (IAQ) in different environments. Focusing not only on homes and offices, but also vehicles and aircrafts, it details practical methods of measuring and assessing indoor air quality. Written by pioneering researchers, Indoor Environmental Quality and Health Risk toward Healthier Environment for All is a valuable resource for both new and established researchers as well as students seeking a comprehensive overview of the facts on indoor air quality and health. Also is also of interest to hygiene experts in industry, occupational health and safety professionals, governmental public health sectors and school physicians.