Towards Nearly Zero Energy: Urban Settings in the Mediterranean Climate

Towards Nearly Zero Energy: Urban Settings in the Mediterranean Climate

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 1-283

  Ferrante, Annarita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-08-100735-8.00006-4     Document Type: Book

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