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Green Roof Retrofit: Building Urban Resilience (Innovation in the Built Environment) by Sara J. Wilkinson, Tim Dixon is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Green Roof Retrofit: Building Urban Resilience (Innovation in the Built Environment) about?
A deep understanding of the implications of green roof retrofit is required amongst students and practitioners to make the decisions and take the actions needed to mitigate climate changes. Green Roof Retrofit: building urban resilience illustrates the processes undertaken to develop this new knowledge and thereby embed a deeper level of understanding in readers. Illustrative case studies and exemplars are drawn from countries outside of the core researched areas to demonstrate the application of the knowledge more broadly. Examples are used from the Americas (North and South and Canada), Oceania, Asia and other European countries. The book describes the multiple criteria which inform decision making and how this provides a way forward for making better decisions about green roof retrofit in different countries and climates
Who reads Green Roof Retrofit: Building Urban Resilience (Innovation in the Built Environment)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Sara J. Wilkinson, Tim Dixon
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781119055570
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Business, Technology, Engineering
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