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Creating Healthy and Sustainable Buildings
Mateja Dovjak and Andreja Kukec
2019
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The open access book discusses human health and wellbeing within the context of built environments. It provides a comprehensive overview of relevant sources of literature and user complaints that clearly demonstrate the consequences of lack of attention to health in current building design and planning. Current designing of energy-efficient buildings is mainly focused on looking at energy problems and not on addressing health. Therefore, even green buildings that place environmental aspects above health issues can be uncomfortable and unhealthy, and can lead to public health problems. The authors identify many health risk factors and their parameters, and the interactions among risk factors and building design elements. They point to the need for public health specialists, engineers and planners to come together and review built environments for human wellbeing and environmental sustainability. The authors therefore present a tool for holistic decision-making processes, leading to short- and long-term benefits for people and their environment.
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Keywords
- Architectural structure & design
- Architecture
- Environmentally-friendly architecture & design
- Medical research
- medicine
- Medicine: General Issues
- Personal & public health
- Public health & preventive medicine
- Quality of life
- Social issues & processes
- Society & culture: general
- Society & Social Sciences
- Sustainable architecture
- The arts
- thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture::AMC Architectural structure and design::AMCR Environmentally-friendly (‘green’) architecture and design
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues
- thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBN Public health and preventive medicine::MBNH Personal and public health / health education
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-19412-3Editions