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Global Sustainable Communities Handbook

Green Design Technologies and Economics

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Woodrow W. Clark II

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Clark, Woodrow W.

Global sustainable communities handbook: green design technologies / Woodrow W. Clark II.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-12-397914-8

1. Sustainable development--Handbooks, manuals, etc. 2. Community development--Handbooks, manuals, etc. 3. Sustainable design--Handbooks, manuals, etc. 4. Green technology--Handbooks, manuals, etc. 5. Renewable energy sources--Handbooks, manuals, etc. 6. Environmental policy--Handbooks, manuals, etc. 7. Economic policy--Handbooks, manuals, etc. I. Title.

HC79.E5C565 2014

338.927--dc23

2013050939

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ISBN: 978-0-12-397914-8

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Preface

A very special thanks to my wife (Andrea) and 6-year-old son (Paxton) for working with me while I undertook this book which focuses upon sustainable communities in a very real yet innovative manner that describes how such communities can be created now and updated constantly in the future is a lesson for everyone. The world changes and with it what we need to take action now and in the future. My family understands this need for change and was the inspiration for my spending over 2 years preparing the book: it is dedicated to them and our global family future.

Every time that I speak, give lectures and keynote talks, I end with a picture of myself holding Paxton when he was 3 years old. My point is that the reason I am there speaking, and doing this book, is that his life is at stake. Either we parents and grandparents need to do something about climate change today or we will destroy our childrens future health, environment, and their climate. We cannot wait.

There is no time to delay or tell our family and children. We have to lower emissions and pollution now. The clock is ticking so we can not wait to waste, dream, or even imagine that the issues of climate change will disappear. We must act now. As my son puts it, Daddy, be sure to turn off the light when you leave. And he recycles bottles at his school and we go to recycle locations nearby our home to recycle. I tell him that we need to do this for the Earth and he gets some money for his college education.

Hence the book is organized into regions around the world and specific areas of expertise needed to create sustainable communities. The book starts with an overview of the chapters and then an introduction to the regions and areas of specific needs for every sustainable community using examples that have worked and are being implemented now.

Woodrow W. Clark II

List of Contributors

Eric Borden , German Chancellor Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Berlin, Germany; Email:

D. Chiaroni , Dipartimento di Ingegneria Gestionale, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, Milan, Italy; Email:

V. Chiesa , Dipartimento di Ingegneria Gestionale, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, Milan, Italy; Email:

Woodrow W. Clark II , Ph.D. , Qualitative Economist, Managing Director, Clark Strategic Partners, Beverly Hills, CA, USA; Email:

Attilio Coletta , Ph.D. , Department. DAFNE Universit degli Studi della Tuscia Viterbo, Italy; Email:

Grant Cooke , Founder and CEO, Sustainable Energy Associates, LLC., Benicia, CA, USA; Email:

M.K. Elahee , Ph.D. , Faculty of Engineering, The University of Mauritius, Reduit, Mauritius; Email:

Khalil Elahee , Chairman, Energy Efficiency Committee Member, National Energy Commission Associate Professor Mechanical and Production Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Mauritius, Mauritius; Email:

F. Frattini , Dipartimento di Ingegneria Gestionale, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, Milan, Italy; Email:

Tali Hatuka , Ph.D. , Geography and the Human Environment Department, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv Tel Aviv, Israel; Email:

Simon Hayhoe , Ph.D.

Faculty (Educational Technology), Sharjah Womens College, UAE

Research Associate, Centre for the Philosophy of Natural & Social Sciences, London School of Economics, UK; Email:

Namrita S. Heyden , Ph.D. , University of Chapel Hill, NC, USA; Email:

Lixuan Hong , Ph.D. , China Energy Group, Environmental, Energy Technologies Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA; Email:

Naved Jafry , Chairman, ZEONS Group, La Jolla, CA,USA; Email:

Rasmus Lund Jensen , Department of Civil Engineering, Head of Indoor Environmental Engineering Laboratory, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark; Email:

A.J. Jin , Ph.D.

Chief Scientist, China Huaneng Clean Energy Research Institute China Huaneng Group, Beijing, P.R China

Managing Director Haetl Ltd, a Clean Solar Thermal Electricity Company, Lafayette, CA USA; Email:

Michael Hakeem D. Johnson , Ph.D. , Acting Country Director, Adeso-African Development Solutions Juba, South Sudan; Email:

Natalija Lepkova , Ph.D. , Department of Construction Economics and Property Management, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Vilnius, Lithuania; Email:

Xing Li , Professor and Director, Research Center on Development and International Relations, Department of Culture and Global Studies, Aalborg University Aalborg, Denmark; Email:

Kartik Sameer Madiraju , Department of Bioresource Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Email:

Craig Morris , Ph.D. , Director of Petite Plante, Krozingerstr., Freiburg, Germany; Email:

Jane Paunkovi , Ph.D. , Professor, Faculty of Management Zajecar, Megatrend University, Serbia; Email:

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