Comfort in a lower carbon society
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Comfort in a lower carbon society
（Building research and information）
Routledge, 2013, c2010
- : pbk
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"First published 2010 by Routledge"--T.p. verso
"First issued in paperback 2013"--T.p. verso
"This book was published as a special issue of Building Research and Information"--Added t.p.
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Current expectations and standards of comfort are almost certainly unsustainable and new methods and ideas will be required if there is to be any prospect of a significantly lower carbon society. This collection reassesses relationships between people and the multitude of environments they inhabit in the context of increasing carbon intensities of everyday life. In this bold and unconventional volume historians, sociologists, environmentalists, geographers, and cultural theorists provoke and stimulate debate about the future of comfort in a lower carbon society. These contributions are then subject to critical commentary from a range of academic and policy perspectives. The result is a book that promotes academic and policy discussion of the environmental consequences of indoor climate change around the world, and that offers new perspectives and strategies for moving towards a lower carbon future.
This book was published as a special issue of Building Research & Information.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Comfort in a Lower Carbon Society Elizabeth Shove, Heather Chappells, Loren Lutzenhiser and Bruce Hackett 2. Air-conditioning and the 'homogenization' of people and built environments Stephen Healy 3. Re-contextualizing the notion of comfort Raymond Cole, John Robinson, Zosia Brown and Meg O'Shea 4. Conquering winter: US consumers and the cast iron stove Howell Harris 5. Growth in mobile air-conditioning: a socio-technical research agenda Graham Parkhurst and Richard Parnaby 6. Understanding heat wave vulnerability in nursing and residential homes Sam Brown and Gordon Walker 7. Escaping the house: comfort and the California garden Gail Cooper 8. Comfort expectations: the impact of demand-management strategies in Australia Yolande Strengers 9. New standards for comfort and energy in building J. F. Nicol and M. A. Humphreys Commentaries 10. The conditioning of comfort Harold Wilhite 11. Comfort in a brave new world Ian Cooper 12. Are Comfort Expectations of Building Occupants Too High? Mithra Moezzi 13. Cold Comfort in a High Carbon Society? Jim Skea 14. Studying thermal comfort in context Russell Hitchings
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