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Resilient and Green Building Design/Construction

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Sustainable Cities and Communities

Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ((ENUNSDG))

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Sustainable building; Sustainable construction

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Green buildings are those that present characteristics such as efficient use of energy and water systems, creating a better quality of life for everyone around them (Illankoon et al. 2017).

Introduction

Due to an increase in conflicts between the fast construction of buildings and the deterioration of the environment, green buildings have become a relevant topic of study (Teng et al. 2019). Global awareness has raised on the importance of sustainability in the building sector, as well as for issues such as climate change, population growth, and fast urbanization, all of which create a demand for green buildings for sustainable development (Sharma 2018). Rajaee et al. (2019) argue that environmental degradation, the crisis in the energy sector, industrialization, and climate change present serious challenges for sustainable development. The expansion of green buildings is considered an efficient method to promote a...

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Acknowledgments

This study was conducted by the Centre for Sustainable Development (Greens), from the University of Southern Santa Catarina (UNISUL), in the context of the project BRIDGE – Building Resilience in a Dynamic Global Economy: Complexity across scales in the Brazilian Food-Water-Energy Nexus; funded by the Newton Fund, Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa e Inovação do Estado de Santa Catarina (FAPESC), Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível superior (CAPES), National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), and the Research Councils United Kingdom (RCUK).

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  1. Centre for Sustainable Development/Research Centre on Energy Efficiency and Sustainability (Greens), University of Southern Santa Catarina (UNISUL), Florianopolis, SC, Brazil

    Gabriela Carpejani, André Borchardt Deggau & José Baltazar Salgueirinho Osório de Andrade Guerra

  2. Center for Sustainable Development/Research Centre on Energy Efficiency and Sustainability (Greens), University of Southern Santa Catarina (UNISUL), Florianópolis, SC, Brazil

    Samara da Silva Neiva

  3. Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG), Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

    José Baltazar Salgueirinho Osório de Andrade Guerra

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  1. European School of Sustainability Science and Research, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  2. Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Institute for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela Marisa Azul

  3. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo University, Passo Fundo, Brazil

    Luciana Brandli

  4. Istinye University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Pinar Gökçin Özuyar

  5. University of Chester, Chester, UK

    Tony Wall

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  1. Department of Apparel, Housing and Resource Management, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA

    Erin A. Hopkins

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Carpejani, G., da Silva Neiva, S., Deggau, A.B., de Andrade Guerra, J.B.S.O. (2020). Resilient and Green Building Design/Construction. In: Leal Filho, W., Marisa Azul, A., Brandli, L., Gökçin Özuyar, P., Wall, T. (eds) Sustainable Cities and Communities. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95717-3_15

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