Introduction: Climate change and the built environment

Robert S. McLeod; Christina J. Hopfe

doi:10.4324/9781315726434-9

Introduction: Climate change and the built environment

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It can have scarcely gone unnoticed that for several decades, eminent scientists have warned that we are polluting the planet at a pace beyond which its natural systems can process. At the same time non-renewable resources are being consumed at a faster rate than at any previous point in history (Kendall, 1992). Fossil fuel emissions and deforestation have been cited as the principal factors which have caused the destabilisation of the earth’s carbon cycle resulting in serious and progressive climatic changes. These climatic changes are in turn contributing to the destruction and collapse of a host of natural ecosystems upon which life on earth depends (Stern, 2006; IPCC, 2014).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Passivhaus Designer’s Manual
Subtitle of host publication	A technical guide to low and zero energy buildings
Publisher	Taylor and Francis Group
Pages	1-29
Number of pages	30
ISBN (Electronic)	9781317536918
ISBN (Print)	9780415522694
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315726434-9
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2015
Externally published	Yes

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