tailieunhanh - Community Culture and the Environment

The life spans of buildings are long and it may take a number of years for performance issues to come to light, by which time the original designers have long moved on and the opportunity to learn from experience is lost. Further, the competitive and adversarial nature of UK construction inhibits the dissemination of building performance information. Thus, the construction industry in 2010 is generally still delivering buildings that are little better in real performance terms than they were in the 1990s. The UK goal now is to achieve 80% reduction in carbon emissions by 2050. Yet buildings presently account for some 45% of carbon emissions. | MOHIA ựỳ Community Culture and the Environment A Guide to Understanding a Sense of Place DISCLAIMER The Environmental Protection Agency EPA has compiled this technical document of tools and methods for understanding the human dimension of environmental protection. It is designed to provide leaders in the environmental field a means for better understanding community values and processes as they relate to environmental issues thus resulting in more effective partnerships and approaches to solving environmental problems. The tools are intended to assist communities in meeting or exceeding current environmental protection standards. Mention of organizations or products in this resource book does not constitute an endorsement by EPA but is intended to provide information resources or assistance the users may then evaluate in terms of their own needs. Community Culture and the Environment A Guide to Understanding a Sense of Place I II Community Culture and the Environment A Guide to Understanding a Sense of .