Featured Books & eBooks - Infrastructure & Resilience Planning
Resilience: The Ultimate Sustainability by Call Number: TH880 .P37ISBN: 9780986181610Publication Date: 2016This pioneering book by a career industry insider, Aris Papadopoulos, spotlights why the multi-trillion dollar U. S. built environment is increasingly failing. His analysis exposes policies and special interests that are the root causes of urban vulnerability and discusses why the green movement has fallen short in addressing sustainable building development. The book extracts 30 lessons for nations aiming to build a more disaster-resilient future.
Resilience Practice: Building Capacity to Absorb Disturbance and Maintain Function by Call Number: S936 .W35ISBN: 9781597268011Publication Date: 2012-08-06In Resilience Practice, authors Brian Walker and David Salt apply resilience thinking to numerous real-world situations and explore how systems can be managed to promote and sustain resilience. This easy-to-read but scientifically robust guide will help people with an interest in the "coping capacity" of systems—from farms and catchments to regions and nations—to better understand how resilience thinking can be put into practice at any scale.
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Smith, Peter. Building for Climate Change: The Challenge for Construction, Planning & Energy. (2010) - eBook
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Security & Sustainability Forum. Actionable Science Solutions for Local Resilience. (2018)
Security & Sustainability Forum. The Science of Resilience in Decision-Making. (2018)
Planning Sustainable Cities: An Infrastructure-Based Approach by Call Number: HT241 .P577ISBN: 9781138188426Publication Date: 2016Planning Sustainable Cities provides an analytical framework for urban sustainability, focusing on the services and performance of infrastructure systems, and how these can function synergistically. This approach streamlines and guides the planning process, highlighting connections between entities and decoding the high-level planning and decision-making process that affect infrastructure systems.
Eco-Design of Buildings & Infrastructure by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781138029675Publication Date: 2016Based on extensive research with ParisTech, this volume presents the methodological bases of ecodesign, life cycle assessments, impact studies, and methods for urban planning and transport. It’s designed to serve as a genuine decision-aid instrument, based on a scientific approach, for all those involved in the urban environment, including designers, builders and users.
Public Natures: Evolutionary Infrastructures by Call Number: NA737.W398 A4ISBN: 9781616893774Publication Date: 2015With a collection of essays, roundtable discussions and selected projects, authors Weiss & Manfredi demonstrate that architecture must evolve to create more productive connections between landscape, infrastructure and urban territories. Public Natures proposes a new paradigm for infrastructure that is distinctly public in nature.
Infrastructure Sustainability and Design by Call Number: NA9053.E58 I54ISBN: 9780415893169Publication Date: 2012Imagine you're overseeing a large-scale project, but you're not an engineering or construction specialist. This text distills the knowledge of a team of experts from the fields of engineering, planning, public health, environmental design, architecture, and landscape architecture to discuss the challenges and opportunities of pursuing sustainable solutions with infrastructural systems.
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Lopez, Russ. The Built Environment & Public Health. (2012) - RA566.7.L67
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution by Call Number: HE310.N5 S23ISBN: 9780143128977Publication Date: 2017During her tenure as NYC’s Transportation Commissioner, Janette Sadik-Khan rewrote the rule book and transformed the streets of one of the world’s greatest, toughest cities into dynamic spaces safe for pedestrians and bikers. In Streetfight, Sadik-Khan writes about the struggles she encountered while making her new approach work, and how it is now being implemented.
The End of Automobile Dependence: How Cities Are Moving Beyond Car-Based Planning by Call Number: HE305.N482ISBN: 9781610914628Publication Date: 2015We are experiencing the phenomenon of peak car use in many global cities at the same time that urban rail is thriving, central cities are revitalizing, and suburban sprawl is reversing. Walking and cycling are growing in many cities, along with ubiquitous bike-sharing schemes. Peter Newman and Jeffrey Kenworthy look at how we can design urban environments to function reliably and conveniently on alternative modes, with a refined and more civilized automobile playing a very much reduced and manageable role in urban transportation.
Street Smart: The Rise of Cities & the Fall of Cars by Call Number: HE4451 .S387ISBN: 9781610395649Publication Date: 2015Since the turn of the twenty-first century, a surreptitious revolution has taken place: every year Americans are driving fewer miles, and the generation named for this new century—the Millennials—are driving least of all. Not because they can't afford to; they don't want to. They have better ideas for how to use their streets. An urban transformation is underway, and smart streets are at the heart of it.
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time by Call Number: HT175 .S64ISBN: 9780865477728Publication Date: 2013Bursting with sharp observations and key insights into how urban change happens, Walkable City lays out a practical, necessary, and inspiring vision for how to revitalize American cities. Remaking downtown into a walkable space is not only eminently achievable, but its benefits are manifold.
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Schiller, Preston. Introduction to Sustainable Transportation Policy, Planning & Implementation. (2010) - eBook
Sharma, Sunjay; Mark Starik; & Bryan Husted. Organizations and the Sustainability Mosaic: Crafting Long-Term Ecological and Societal Solutions. (2007) - eBook
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Security & Sustainability Forum. Walkable City Rules. (2018)
Airports Going Green: How Airports are Implementing Sustainability by Call Number: TD195.A3 C22ISBN: 9783659579363Publication Date: 2014Airport operators across the country are beginning implementation of sustainability programs and initiatives at their airports in part due to federal, state, and local initiatives in support. This work shows examples of cost-related benefits to airports "going green" and the positive effects of sustainability in the community.
Greening Health Care: How Hospitals Can Heal the Planet by Call Number: RA967 .G47ISBN: 9780199385836Publication Date: 2014The relationship between hospitals and the environment is defined by a glaring contradiction: as health care facilities deliver care at any cost, their environmental footprint - pollution, waste production, unsustainable food services - contributes to harming community health. Greening Health Care examines the intersections of health care and environmental health, both in terms of traditional failures and the revolution underway to fix them.
Sustainable Healthcare Architecture by Call Number: RA967.G827ISBN: 9780471784043Publication Date: 2007Written by leading national experts on the subject, Sustainable Healthcare Architecture is the key guide to designing sustainable healthcare facilities. Building on the authors’ combined knowledge and experience, this book includes case studies of more than 50 of the best contemporary sustainable healthcare projects. The book also contains numerous essays contributed by other leaders in sustainable design and healthcare.
School Buildings Rehabilitation: Indoor Environmental Quality and Enclosure Optimization by Call Number: LB3241 .A46ISBN: 9783319153582Publication Date: 2015For rehabilitation projects, a planner must consider a range of variables and objectives, some of which may conflict from time to time. This book discusses the effect of various school building rehabilitation strategies on the classrooms' indoor environmental quality (IEQ) and presents a multi-objective methodology for optimizing school building enclosures, combining artificial neural networks and lifecycle costs.
The Nine Elements of a Sustainable Campus by Call Number: BookISBN: 9780262027113Publication Date: 2014Colleges and universities offer our best hope for raising awareness about the climate crisis and the other environmental threats, but most college and university administrations need guidance on the path to sustainability. In The Nine Elements of a Sustainable Campus, Mitchell Thomashow, a former college president, provides just that. Drawing on his experiences at Unity College in Maine, he identifies nine key elements for a holistic campus sustainability agenda.
How Green Is My Library? by ISBN: 9781591587804Publication Date: 2009While there is a broad spectrum of ecological sophistication within libraries nationwide and some regions are at the forefront of sustainable design and operations, others are only beginning to consider integrating sustainability into their daily practice.
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Frumkin, Howard (Ed). Safe & Healthy School Environments. (2006) - eBook
Scale: The Universal Laws of Life, Growth, and Death in Organisms, Cities, and Companies by Call Number: H61.27 .W47ISBN: 9781594205583Publication Date: 2017Visionary physicist Geoffrey West is a pioneer in the field of complexity science, emergent systems and networks. After conducting extensive research on the growth, aging and death of living creatures, he discerned an underlying natural order. Extrapolating these observations to cities and businesses, West draws startling conclusions and inches his way toward what he dubs a “Grand Unified Theory of Sustainability.”
The Age of Sustainable Development by Call Number: HC79.E5 S2155ISBN: 9780231173148Publication Date: 2015In this major new work, Jeffrey D. Sachs presents a compelling and practical framework for how global citizens can use a holistic way forward to address the seemingly intractable worldwide problems of persistent extreme poverty, environmental degradation, and political-economic injustice. Sachs offers readers, students, activists, environmentalists, and policy-makers the tools, metrics, and practical pathways needed to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
An Introduction to Sustainable Development (4th Ed) by Call Number: HC59.72.E5 E43ISBN: 9780415590723Publication Date: 2013This fourth edition has been comprehensively rewritten and updated to provide a concise, well-illustrated and accessible introduction to the characteristics, challenges and opportunities of sustainable development. The text identifies the different actors involved (from institutions of global governance to community-based organizations); highlights the policies and mechanisms through which sustainable development can be achieved; and considers the outcomes for particular groups and environments in both rural and urban contexts.
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Sharma, Sunjay. Stakeholders, the Environment, & Society. (2010) - eBook
Ascher, William. Bringing in the Future: Strategies for Far-Sightedness & Sustainability in Developing Countries. (2009) - eBook
Rogers, Peter; Kazi Jalal; & John Boyd. Introduction to Sustainable Development. (2008) - eBook