Edited by Susan Roaf.

"Architectural Science Review 53(1) February 2010."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Transforming markets in the built environment and adapting to climate change: an introduction / Sue Roaf, Richard Hyde, Colin Campbell and Martin Seigert -- Exploring a quality of life, self-determined / David Wadley -- Pragmatic ecologies: situating sustainable building / Simon Guy -- The global predicament: radical implications for design / Ted Trainer -- Values and sustainable lifestyles / Birgitta Gatersleben, Emma White, Wokje Abrahamse, Tim Jackson and David Uzzell -- Understanding barriers to social adaptation: are we targeting the right concerns? / Silva Larson -- Cooling exposure in hot humid climates: are occupants "addicted"? / Christhina C�andido, Richard de Dear, Roberto Lamberts and Leonardo Bittencourt -- Twentieth century standards for thermal comfort: promoting high energy buildings / Sue Roaf, Fergus Nicol, Michael Humphreys, Paul Tuohy and Atze Boerstra -- Twenty first century standards for thermal comfort: fostering low carbon building design and operation / Paul Tuohy, Sue Roaf, Fergus Nicol, Mike Humphreys and Atze Boerstra -- Automate and motivate: behaviour-reliant building technology solutions for reducing greenhouse gas emissions / J.K. Ward, J. Wall and S.D. White -- Hybrid buildings: a pathway to carbon neutral housing / Peter W. Newton and Selwyn N. Tucker -- The role of rainwater tanks in Australia in the twenty first century / Ted Gardner and Alison Vieritz -- Social networks save energy: optimizing energy consumption in an ecovillage via agent-based simulation / Majd Hawasly, David Corne and Sue Roaf.