Sustainable Building and Built Environments to Mitigate Climate Change in the Tropics : Conceptual and Practical Approaches

This book offers a selection of the best papers presented during the International conference on Mitigating and Adapting Built Environments for Climate Change in the Tropics, held at Tanri Abeng University (TAU), Jakarta, Indonesia, March 2015. The book is divided into four main parts. The first part deals with the general issue of climate change, the cause and the ways to mitigate and to adapt the built environment for climate change in a number of countries. Part 2 deals with the conceptual ways to mitigate building for climate change. The ways to reduce cooling energy in tropical buildings by means of passive design. Part 3 offers papers that examine the way to overcome disasters in the city caused by climate change. The final part deals with the role of plants in mitigating and adapting built environments to climate change - the use of plants, trees and bushes to directly and indirectly reduce carbon emissions are discussed. Front Matter....Pages i-x Introduction: The Tropics: A Region Defined by Climate....Pages 1-6 Front Matter....Pages 7-7 Climate Change and the Sustainability of the Built Environment in the Humid Tropic of Indonesia....Pages 9-25 Climate Change and the Built Environment in the Tropics – Is Carbon Enough to Assess Human Impact?....Pages 27-38 Monitoring Climate Change Adaptation: Lessons from Scotland....Pages 39-51 The Sustainable Portion of Gross Domestic Product: A Proposed Social Ecological Economic Indicator for Sustainable Economic Development....Pages 53-69 Sustainable Transport: A Comparison of Ecological Footprint and Travel Patterns in Three Cities in Vietnam, New Zealand and Finland....Pages 71-89 Smart Community Energy Systems for Low Carbon Living....Pages 91-100 Front Matter....Pages 101-101 Adapting City for Frequent Floods: A Case Study of Jakarta, Indonesia....Pages 103-111 STEVE Tool Plug-in for SketchUp: A User-Friendly Microclimatic Mapping Tool for Estate Development....Pages 113-130 Sustainable Fishing Settlement in Muara Angke, North Jakarta....Pages 131-148 Proposed Design of Bicycle Lanes Around Jakarta’s East Flood Canal....Pages 149-163 Flood Responsive Design of the Low-Income Settlements in Kampung Melayu, Jakarta, Indonesia....Pages 165-183 Front Matter....Pages 185-185 Mitigating the Environmental Impacts of the Development of Ecotourism Through Using Refurbished Buildings as Its Related Accommodation Services....Pages 187-202 Development of JKR/BSEEP Technical Passive Design Guideline for the Malaysian Building....Pages 203-214 Residential Thermal Comfort in Tropics – Bunker House....Pages 215-229 Advancing Sustainability in the Tropics – The International School of Kuala Lumpur....Pages 231-246 Front Matter....Pages 247-247 Plant Selection and Placement Criteria for Landscape Design....Pages 249-260 Low Energy Material, High Community Engagement: Ecology of Banana Tree Fibres in Disaster Relief Projects....Pages 261-273 This book offers a selection of the best papers presented during the International conference on Mitigating and Adapting Built Environments for Climate Change in the Tropics, held at Tanri Abeng University (TAU), Jakarta, Indonesia, March 2015. The book is divided into four main chapters. The first part deals with the general issue of climate change, the cause and the ways to mitigate and to adapt the built environment for climate change in a number of countries. Part 2 deals with the conceptual ways to mitigate building for climate change. The ways to reduce cooling energy in tropical buildings by means of passive design. Part 3 offers papers that examine the way to overcome disasters in the city caused by climate change. The final part deals with the role of plants in mitigating and adapting built environments to climate change - the use of plants, trees and bushes to directly and indirectly reduce carbon emissions are discussed