Climate Change, Energy, Sustainability and Pavements (eBook)

Kasthurirangan Gopalakrishnan, Wynand Jvdm Steyn, John Harvey (Herausgeber)

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2014 | 2014
VIII, 517 Seiten
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-662-44719-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Climate change, energy production and consumption, and the need to improve the sustainability of all aspects of human activity are key inter-related issues for which solutions must be found and implemented quickly and efficiently.  To be successfully implemented, solutions must recognize the rapidly changing socio-techno-political environment and multi-dimensional constraints presented by today's interconnected world.  As part of this global effort, considerations of climate change impacts, energy demands, and incorporation of sustainability concepts have increasing importance in the design, construction, and maintenance of highway and airport pavement systems.  To prepare the human capacity to develop and implement these solutions, many educators, policy-makers and practitioners have stressed the paramount importance of formally incorporating sustainability concepts in the civil engineering curriculum to educate and train future civil engineers well-equipped to address our current and future sustainability challenges.

This book will prove a valuable resource in the hands of researchers, educators and future engineering leaders, most of whom will be working in multidisciplinary environments to address a host of next-generation sustainable transportation infrastructure challenges.

'This book proposes a broad detailed overview of the actual scientific knowledge about pavements linked to climate change, energy and sustainability at the international level in an original multidimensional/multi-effects way. By the end, the reader will be aware of the whole global issues to care about for various pavement technical features around the world, among which the implications of modelling including data collection, challenging resources saving and infrastructures services optimisation. This is a complete and varied work, rare in the domain.'

Dr. Agnes Jullien
Research Director
Director of Environmental, Development, Safety and Eco-Design Laboratory (EASE)
Department of Development, Mobility and Environment
Ifsttar Centre de Nantes
Cedex- France

'An excellent compilation of latest developments in the field of sustainable pavements. The chapter topics have been carefully chosen and are very well-organized with the intention of equipping the reader with the state-of-the-art knowledge on all aspects of pavement sustainability. Topics covered include pavement Life Cycle Analysis (LCA), pervious pavements, cool pavements, photocatalytic pavements, energy harvesting pavements, etc. which will all be of significant interest to students, researchers, and practitioners of pavement engineering.  This book will no doubt serve as an excellent reference  on the topic of sustainable pavements.'

Dr. Wei-Hsing Huang
Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Pavement Research and Technology (IJPRT) and Professor of Civil Engineering
National Central University
Taiwan

Inhalt

Pavement Life Cycle Assessment.- Application of LCA Results to Network-level Highway Pavement Management.- The Product Process Service Life Cycle Assessment Framework to Estimate GHG Emissions for Highways.- Anticipating and Responding to Pavement Performance as Climate Changes.- Climate Change Scenarios and their potential effects on Transportation Infrastructure Systems.- Effect of Pavement Surface Conditions on Sustainable Transport.- Permeable Pavements and Storm Water Management.- Pervious Concrete.- Photocatalytic Pavement.- Warm Mix Asphalt.-Sustainability Issues Surrounding Unpaved Roads.- Sustainable Airport Pavements.- Sustainable Pavement Management.-Sustainable Pavement Preservation and Maintenance Practices.- Reclaimed waste materials in sustainable pavement construction.- Cool Pavements.- Powering Traffic Intersections with Wind and Solar Energy.- Energy Harvesting from Pavements.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.9.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Green Energy and Technology
• Reihe/Serie: Green Energy and Technology
• Zusatzinfo: VIII, 517 p. 147 illus., 7 illus. in color.
• Verlagsort: Berlin
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
• Schlagworte: climate change • Climate Change Management • Green Highways • pavement • sustainability • Transportation Infrastructure Systems
• ISBN-10: 3-662-44719-3 / 3662447193
• ISBN-13: 978-3-662-44719-2 / 9783662447192