Sustainable Solutions for Dutch Housing: Reducing the Environmental Impacts of New And Existing Houses- Volume 04 Sustainable Urban Areas

Sustainable housing construction and management has, to date, been primarily based on an intuitive approach. Numerous measures have been formulated to promote sustainable construction and to reduce the environmental impacts of the built environment.IOS Press is an international science, technical and medical publisher of high-quality books for academics, scientists, and professionals in all fields. Some of the areas we publish in: -Biomedicine -Oncology -Artificial intelligence -Databases and information systems -Maritime engineering -Nanotechnology -Geoengineering -All aspects of physics -E-governance -E-commerce -The knowledge economy -Urban studies -Arms control -Understanding and responding to terrorism -Medical informatics -Computer Sciences 1. Introduction -- 2. Environmental Impact Of Dutch Dwellings : Priorities For Reduction And Benefits Of Sustainable Construction -- 3. The Search For The Most Eco-efficient Strategies : Dutch Lessons In Sustainable Housing Construction -- 4. Tools For Sustainable Housing Management : The Case Of The Netherlands And Finland -- 5. Environmental Impacts Of Interventions In The Dutch Housing Stock -- 6. Between Sustainable And Durable Optimisation Of Life Spans -- 7. The Factor Of Time In Life Cycle Assessment Of Housing -- 8. Discussion On The State Of The Art In Quantifying Environmental Impacts -- 9. Conclusions And Recommendations. Door Gerda Klunder. Thesis (ph. D.)--technische Universiteit Delft, 2005. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 143-152). Summary In Dutch. Aims to show that short-term environmental benefits in sustainable housing construction are rather limited, and that renewal of the post-war housing stock offers excellent changes for improvement of the environmental performance of housing. This book is useful for scientists in the field of methods and tools for sustainable construction.