Innovative Models for Sustainable Development in Emerging African Countries
This open access book explores key issues and presents recent case studies in areas of importance for the transition to a circular model of development in emerging African countries that will minimize resource consumption and waste production. The topics covered include the development of sustainable housing models, energy and environmental issues in building design and technical systems, recycling for a sustainable future, models for humanitarian emergencies, and low-cost and web-based digital tools with applications in architecture and archaeology. The aim is to contribute to a necessary paradigm shift with respect to urban planning and usage of territories, moving from a linear urban metabolism based on the “take, make, dispose” approach to a circular metabolism. Such a change requires a focus on the relationship between the architectural, urban, and physical aspects of new developments, climate, and energy demand, as well as the identification and integration of strategies and infrastructures to achieve a high level of efficiency and self-sufficiency. The book will appeal to all with an interest in sustainable development in the African context.This open access book explores key issues and presents recent case studies in areas of importance for the transition to a circular model of development in emerging African countries that will minimize resource consumption and waste production. The topics covered include the development of sustainable housing models, energy and environmental issues in building design and technical systems, recycling for a sustainable future, models for humanitarian emergencies, and low-cost and web-based digital tools with applications in architecture and archaeology. The aim is to contribute to a necessary paradigm shift with respect to urban planning and usage of territories, moving from a linear urban metabolism based on the “take, make, dispose” approach to a circular metabolism. Such a change requires a focus on the relationship between the architectural, urban, and physical aspects of new developments, climate, and energy demand, as well as the identification and integration of strategies and infrastructures to achieve a high level of efficiency and self-sufficiency. The book will appeal to all with an interest in sustainable development in the African context.
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Description of Innovative Models for Sustainable Development in Emerging African Countries
This open access book explores key issues and presents recent case studies in areas of importance for the transition to a circular model of development in emerging African countries that will minimize
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2020 Jun 28
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Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering—ABC Department Politecnico di Milano Milan, Ita Niccolò Aste Full professor of Building Physics and Building Energy Systems at the ABC Department of the Politecnico di Milano. Graduated cum laude in Architecture and earned a Doctorate (Ph.D.) in Technological Innovation and Architectural Design at Politecnico di Milano. Starting from 1995, he has been actively engaged in research activities related to energy efficiency of the built environment, and to the exploitation of renewable energy sources and their use in building sector, both at urban and at territorial level. He participated in several national and international research programs on the correlated issues of sustainable architecture, energy efficiency and renewable energy sources. Among major clients of his research consultancy are: United Nations (UN-Habitat), Italian Ministry of the Environment, Lombardy Region, FIAT, GSE, Whirlpool, ENI, ENEL. He is the author and co-author of several scientific handbooks and more than 100 pub- lications in various international and national journals, and regularly participates to conferences and seminars.
Niccolò Aste (Editor)
Stefano Della Torre who graduated in Civil Engineering and in Architecture, is a Full Professor of Restoration at the Politecnico di Milano in Milan, Italy, and Director of the ABC Department (Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering). He is the author of more than 360 publications. He served as an advisor to the CARIPLO Foundation (Cultural Districts), the Italian Government and Lombardy Region (policies on planned conservation of historical-architectural heritage). He has been President of BuildingSMART Italia – the national chapter of BuildingSMART International (2011-2017).
Stefano Della Torre (Editor)
Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering—ABC Department Politecnico di Milano Milan, Italy Cinzia Talamo Full professor of Architectural Technology at the ABC Department of Politecnico di Milano, she hearned there a Ph.D. in Technical innovation and design in architecture and a Master Degree (five years program) in Architecture, awarded with honors. She is the President of the Sub Committee U/CT025/SC03 Maintenance of Real Estate and Facility of UNI (Ente Italiano di Unificazione, the Italian institution dedicated to standardization). She is the Coordinator of the Scientific Committee of the ABC Department. Her main and long-term interests focus on planned maintenance, as well as building and urban facility management. A recent area of interest concerns cross-sector waste recycling in the perspective of industrial symbiosis and circular economy.
Cinzia Talamo (Editor)
Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering—ABC Department Politecnico di Milano Milan, Italy Rajendra Singh Adhikari Associate Professor of Building Physics and Building Energy Systems at the ABC Department of the Politecnico di Milano. He graduated in Physics and earned a Ph.D. in Advanced Technologies for Solar Energy Utilization and Master in Energy and Environmental Economics and Management. His research work mainly focuses on renewable energy, energy efficient buildings and energy conservation. He participated to various national and international research projects, including IEA activities (SHC-Task 25, Task 38 and PVPS-Task 10). He is the author and co-author of over 100 publications in various international and national journals, and regularly attends conferences and seminars. He was member of the technical committees of various international conferences (PLEA 2011, PLEA 2012, PLEA 2015, IEECB’14, IEECB’16), and is a Life member of ICTP-India Chapter (International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy).
Rajendra Singh Adhikari (Editor)
Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering—ABC Department Politecnico di Milano Milan, Italy Rajendra Singh Adhikari Associate Professor of Building Physics and Building Energy Systems at the ABC Department of the Politecnico di Milano. He graduated in Physics and earned a Ph.D. in Advanced Technologies for Solar Energy Utilization and Master in Energy and Environmental Economics and Management. His research work mainly focuses on renewable energy, energy efficient buildings and energy conservation. He participated to various national and international research projects, including IEA activities (SHC-Task 25, Task 38 and PVPS-Task 10). He is the author and co-author of over 100 publications in various international and national journals, and regularly attends conferences and seminars. He was member of the technical committees of various international conferences (PLEA 2011, PLEA 2012, PLEA 2015, IEECB’14, IEECB’16), and is a Life member of ICTP-India Chapter (International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy).
Rajendra Singh Adhikari (Editor)
Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering—ABC Department Politecnico di Milano Milan, Italy Corinna Rossi Architect (University Federico II Napoli) and Egyptologist (M.Phil, Ph.D. Cambridge University), is Associate Professor in Egyptology, Director of the Italian Archaeological Mission to Umm al-Dabadib (Egypt), Principal Investigator of the project L.I.F.E. (Living in a Fringe Environment) funded by the ERC Consolidator Grant no. 681673. She is the author of several publications on the relationship between architecture and mathematics in ancient Egypt, and on the relationship between ancient and modern measurements. Since 2001 she has been working on the first scientific exploration of the Kharga Oasis, in Egypt’s Western Desert, where she discovered and documented several archaeo- logical sites.
Corinna Rossi (Editor)
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