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Global climate impacts are the consequence of billions of individual impacts arising mainly within the settlement patterns. Settlements consume a large proportion of global energy resources in their construction and running, there is, therefore, the need to think in terms of the “material-energy conservation city”. Climate can play an important role in the conservation of energy. Correct urban design can reduce the adverse climatic impacts leading to lower energy losses and simultaneously contribute through alternative energy inputs to the solution of the energy problem in an ecologically acceptable way. Urbanism needs a sounder energy base, enlivened by proper climatological awareness.
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Page, J.K. (1980). Climate Considerations and Energy Conservation. In: Bach, W., Pankrath, J., Williams, J. (eds) Interactions of Energy and Climate. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9111-8_4
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