Real Estate

Eco-Urban Design focuses on the challenges currently faced by architects and designers. In a world where the notions of climate change, diminishing natural resources and an increasing global population have become facts of life there is now a rising demand for evolved buildings which work in harmony with the Earth's ecological systems. Published in 2011.

Eco-efficient Construction and Building Materials provides essential reading about materials for the construction industry in the twenty-first century. It covers the latest findings in the field, especially the toxicity aspects, embodied energy, construction and demolition wastes, the use of wastes in concrete, masonry units, materials reinforced with vegetable fibres, earth construction, the durability aspects, and also the importance of nanotechnology on materials development. Published in 2011.

This volume is a practical and comprehensive guide to greening retail real estate, including green building and marketing strategies, corporate sustainability programs and features a 10-point action program for greening any retail real estate portfolio.

The transformation from traditional to sustainable systems requires interdisciplinary knowledge of the re-design, construction, operation and maintenance of the built environment.

This book describes concepts, methods and practical techniques for managing projects to develop constructed facilities in the fields of oil & gas, power, infrastructure, architecture and the commercial building industries.

Provides an overview of the key concepts that urban planners, policy makers, and architects, engineers, and developers use to understand the sustainability dimensions of the urban environment. It also identifies cities that have taken steps to become greener and discusses the strategies they have used.

Urban studies is an expansive and growing field, covering many disciplines and professional fields. The Encyclopedia of Urban Studies presents an overview of current work in the field and serves as a guide for further reading.

The field of Group Decision and Negotiation can be described as the empirical, formal, computational, and strategic analysis of group decision-making and negotiation

Covers all aspects of Finance, including: financial managment, security analysis, portfolio management, financial markets and instruments, insurance, real estate, options and futures, international finance and applications in portfolio analysis, option pricing models and financial research.