Sustainability in the Built Environment in the 21st Century: Lessons Learned from India and the Region
This book is a compilation of papers presented at the second Sustainable Development Research Symposium in the Asia-Pacific Conference held at the Madhav Institute of Sciences, Gwalior, India, in December 2019. This second symposium followed from the inaugural one held at RMIT University in Australia in 2017. The symposium is supported by the United Nations One Planet’s Sustainable Buildings and Construction Programme, one of six programmes under the One Planet Network. The symposiumwas designed to foster and facilitate the exchange of information, ideas and experiences acquired in the execution ofprojectswith sustainability outcomes.
The book presents research from Australia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Sri Lanka. It has been organised based on a chronological sequence of papers, whose core themes respond directly to the SDGs. This research is directly related to the main focus theme of the SBC programme.
