El futuro del hábitat: repensando la habitabilidad desde la sostenibilidad. El caso español

Abstract

The ability of our societies to reach and maintain housing conditions consistent with the right to decent habitat is inevitably related to the integration of the sustainability challenge into the mechanisms for housing, neighborhood and city generation, since it directly depends on both available resources and the production of waste.Based on this relation, the sustainable building concept is thoroughly explained through the transposition of the sustainable development defi nition proposed by the Bruntland report, which allows the linkage of human needs satisfaction with the use of resources. In this way, sustainable housing should address the

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