Sustainable Communities Design Handbook: Green Engineering, Architecture, and Technology Book

Chapter 1: The Tools for Sustainable Development Chapter 2: Global Warming and Climate Change: The Mechanisms for Community Cases Toward Solutions Part One: Architectural Design and Building in Communities Chapter 3: Public Policy: Leadership at the local, state, national and international levels Chapter 4: Government: The Case of Sustainable College Communities Chapter 5: Green Buildings: standards and codes that provide environmentally sound technologies and returns on investments Part Two: Agile Sustainable Infrastructure Systems Chapter 6: Smart Communities: the public and private sectors integration of infrastructures, technologies and buildings Chapter 7: Technologies, Engineering and Science Chapter 8: The Environment, Land Use, Natural Resources Today and the Future Part Three: Economic, Legal and Accounting Mechanisms Chapter 9: Economics and Accounting: Life Cycle Analysis, Externalities, Markets and ROI (return on investment)
Chapter 10: Legal contracts and Power Purchase Agreements Chapter 11: Corporate Governance and Responsibility Model Sustainable Communities, Regions and Nation States Chapter 12: Global Cases of Sustainable Communities Chapter 13: Conclusions: the next generation, life styles and beyond APPENDIX A: Sustainable Development APPENDIX B: Greenhouse Gas Analysis APPENDIX C: Demand Side Management APPENDICE E: Case of Legal Mechanism: The Power Purchase Agreement (PPA)
APPENDIC F: References and Web Site Data Sources