文档介绍：Sustainable Practices
in the Built Environment
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Sustainable Practices
in the Built Environment
Second edition
Edited by
Craig A. Langston and Grace . Ding
OXFORD AUCKLAND BOSTON JOHANNESBURG MELBOURNE NEW DELHI
Butterworth-Heinemann
Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP
225 Wildwood Avenue, Woburn, MA 01801-2041
A member of the Reed Elsevier plc group
First published 1997
Second edition 2001
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Sustainable practices in the built environment
1. Construction industry – Environmental aspects 2. Building materials –
Environmental aspects
I. Langton, Craig A. II. Ding, Grace K. C.
691
Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data
Sustainable practices in the built environment/edited by Craig A. Langston and
Grace
p. cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-7506-5153-9
1. Environmental engineering. I. Langton, Craig A. II. Ding, Grace .
TA170 .S88 2001
628--dc21
2001035007
ISBN 0 7506 5153 9
Typeset by Avocet Typeset, Brill, Aylesbury, Bucks
Printed and bound in Great Britain
Contents
List of contributors vii
Foreword to first edition ix
Foreword to second edition xi
Introduction x