Energy Conservation Technologies for Mitigation and Adaptation in the Built Environment - The Role of Ventilation Strategies and Smart Materials

This article explores the role of visuality in the identity politics of fin-de-siècle Catalonia. It engages with the recent reevaluation of the visual, both as a source for the history of modern nation-building, and as a constitutive element in the emergence of civic identities in the liberal urban environment. In doing so, it offers a reading of the mutually constitutive relationship of the built environment and the print media in late-nineteenth century Catalonia, and explores the role of this relation as the mechanism by which the so-called ‘imagined communities’ come to exist. Engaging with debates on urban planning and educational policies, it challenges established views on the interplay between tradition and modernity in modern nation-building, and reveals long-term connections between late-nineteenth-century imaginaries and early-twentieth-century beliefs and practices.

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Sustainable materials and role of professionals in the built environment

WABER 2019 Conference Proceedings ◽

10.33796/waberconference2019.72 ◽

2019 ◽

Keyword(s):

Built Environment ◽

Sustainable Materials

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THE ROLE OF THE PROPERTY AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT PROFESSIONAL BODIES IN A TRALIA

10.15396/eres2008_294 ◽

2008 ◽

Keyword(s):

Built Environment

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The Role of Late-Night Infotainment Comedy in Communicating Climate Change Consensus

10.31234/osf.io/ufg9r ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Edward John Roy Clarke ◽

Anna Klas ◽

Joshua Stevenson ◽

Emily Jane Kothe

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Policy Support ◽

Mitigation Policy ◽

Behavioural Intentions ◽

Late Night ◽

Mitigation And Adaptation ◽

Climate Action ◽

Adaptation Policies ◽

Diverse Audience

Climate change is a politically-polarised issue, with conservatives less likely than liberals to perceive it as human-caused and consequential. Furthermore, they are less likely to support mitigation and adaptation policies needed to reduce its impacts. This study aimed to examine whether John Oliver’s “A Mathematically Representative Climate Change Debate” clip on his program Last Week Tonight polarised or depolarised a politically-diverse audience on climate policy support and behavioural intentions. One hundred and fifty-nine participants, recruited via Amazon MTurk (94 female, 64 male, one gender unspecified, Mage = 51.07, SDage = 16.35), were presented with either John Oliver’s climate change consensus clip, or a humorous video unrelated to climate change. Although the climate change consensus clip did not reduce polarisation (or increase it) relative to a control on mitigation policy support, it resulted in hyperpolarisation on support for adaptation policies and increased climate action intentions among liberals but not conservatives.

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Role of Farmers Participatory Vegetable Breeding in Kashmir

Journal of AgriSearch ◽

10.21921/jas.v3i1.4104 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

Author(s):

LAL SINGH ◽

PRADEEP KUMAR SINGH ◽

HARI BAKSH ◽

SARVESH SINGH

Keyword(s):

Resource Conservation ◽

Vegetable Crops ◽

Zero Tillage ◽

Kashmir Valley ◽

Full Control ◽

Conservation Technology ◽

Raised Bed ◽

Selection Of ◽

Conservation Technologies

Vegetable crops are conducting under Farmers Participatory Research Trial in Temperate regions of Kashmir Valley. The trials are designed and managed by farmers, the researchers have only advice for selection of the resource conservation technology (treatments). Farmers have full control over the selection of treatments to be used on his/her field. The main objectives of this type of research is to be established and demonstrate the benefits of resource conservation technologies like raised bed, furrow irrigated planting system, zero tillage etc. over the conventional practices. In these type of trial farmers are briefed about new practices. The participating farmers are encouraged to experiment their own and are given the full control over the selection of subset of resource conservation technologies to be tested on their fields with a view to assess farmer innovation and acceptability.

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Reflections on Institutional Cosmopolitanism

10.1093/oso/9780190905651.003.0003 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Richard Beardsworth

Keyword(s):

The State ◽

Nuclear Disarmament ◽

Global Policy ◽

Mitigation And Adaptation ◽

Political Purpose ◽

Role Of The State ◽

Agents Of Change ◽

The Individual ◽

Change Mitigation

With its moral commitment to the individual, cosmopolitanism has often downplayed the role of the state in cosmopolitan commitments and their practices. There is, however, emerging concern to put the state back into cosmopolitan concerns. This chapter argues that two outstanding reasons for this intellectual move are of an institutional and political nature. First, despite the recent pluralization of global actors, states remain the major agents of change within a (post-Western) system of states; both the moral and political purpose of the state should therefore be aligned with global imperatives. Second, a clearly formulated “marriage” between the global and the national is required to line up institutional motivation for enlightened global policy. This chapter argues, accordingly, for cosmopolitan state responsibilities toward the provision of global public goods (examples include nuclear disarmament, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and sustainable development).

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A Critical Review of Computational Creativity in Built Environment Design

Buildings ◽

10.3390/buildings11010029 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 29

Author(s):

Ning Gu ◽

Peiman Amini Behbahani

Keyword(s):

Built Environment ◽

Critical Review ◽

Contemporary Literature ◽

Research Interest ◽

Future Research ◽

Computational Creativity ◽

Environment Design ◽

Supporting Tool ◽

Definition Of

Computational creativity in built environment (BE) design has been a subject of research interest in the discipline. This paper presents a critical review of various ways computational creativity has been and can be defined and approached in BE design. The paper examines a comprehensive body of contemporary literature on the topics of creativity, computational creativity, and their assessment to identify levels of computational creativity. The paper then proceeds to a further review of the implications of these levels specifically in BE design. The paper identifies four areas in BE design where computational creativity is relevant. In two areas—synthesis (generation) and analysis—there is considerable literature on lower levels of computational creativity. However, in two other areas—interfacing and communication—even the definition of computational creativity is not as defined and clear for the discipline, and most works only consider the role of computers as a supporting tool or medium. These open up future research opportunities for the discipline.

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