Energy-efficient buildings in the Mediterranean : challenges, strategies, and innovations /

This volume reimagines the built environment not as a passive backdrop, but as a contested site where architecture, engineering, climate extremes, energy imperatives and socioeconomic inequalities converge. Sustainability is shown not as a universal mandate, but as a condition continually negotiated...

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Other Authors:	Vardopoulos, Ioannis (Editor), Vassiliades, Constantinos (Editor), Santamouris, Mattheos (Contributor), Salvati, Luca (Contributor), Kalogirou, Soteris (Contributor), Zorpas, Antonis A. (Contributor), Buonomano, Annamaria (Contributor), Lau, Kevin (Contributor), Koundouri, Phoebe (Contributor), Xydis, George (Contributor), Barone, Giovanni (Contributor), Michael, Aimilios (Contributor), Rizzo, Agatino (Contributor), Savvides, Andreas (Contributor), Tsilika, Evangelia (Contributor), Kavarnou, Dimitra (Contributor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Gistrup, Denmark : River Publishers, [2025].
Series:	River Publishers series in energy sustainability and efficiency.
Subjects:	Architecture and energy conservation > Mediterranean Region. Sustainable buildings > Mediterranean Region. Buildings > Energy conservation > Mediterranean Region.

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Summary:	This volume reimagines the built environment not as a passive backdrop, but as a contested site where architecture, engineering, climate extremes, energy imperatives and socioeconomic inequalities converge. Sustainability is shown not as a universal mandate, but as a condition continually negotiated across uneven terrains of policy, design and everyday inhabitation. Through contributions from leading scholars, the book examines Mediterranean cities to reveal the fractured foundations of the energy transition, fragmented regulations, misaligned certification systems, undervaluation of thermal performance and urban fabrics that both resist and demand reinvention. Rejecting linear narratives and technocratic reductionism, the volume emphasizes the tensions between techno-optimism and the economic, infrastructural, and cultural inertias that delay transformation. Rather than offering prescriptive closure, it invites readers to grapple with contradictions that render the Mediterranean city both a site of impasse and a laboratory of renewal in the shadow of climate crisis.
Physical Description:	xxxvii, 301 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9788743809777 8743809774 9788743809821 8743809820