BACKGROUND Today, the International Energy Agency is working under good practice guides that integrate appropriate and cost effective technologies. In this paper a new procedure to define building energy consumption in accordance with the ISO 13790 standard was performed and tested based on real data from a Spanish region. RESULTS Results showed that the effect of air changes on building ener...

Pursuant to Article 1 of the Convention signed in Paris on 14th December 1960, and which came into force on 30th September 1961, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) shall promote policies designed: − to achieve the highest sustainable economic growth and employment and a rising standard of living in Member countries, while maintaining financial stability, and thus t...

Copyright © Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative 2009 1 Department of Economics, University of Oxford, Manor Road Building, Manor Road, Oxford, OX1 3UQ, UK; e-mail: [email protected]: 2 Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, USA. This study has been prepared within the OPHI theme on multidimensional poverty. OPHI gratefully acknowledges support for its research and a...