Publications

This publication summarises the activities of the COST C23 Action entitled ‘Strategies for a Low Carbon Urban Built Environments’ which took place over the period 2004 to 2009. The main objective of the Action was to investigate, through a network of nineteen countries across Europe, ‘how carbon reductions can be achieved thorugh appropiate design and management of the urban built environment’. This involved investigating the built environment at building and urban scale, focusing on minimising energy use and associated carbon dioxide emissions.

The aim of this pocket guide is to bring together all relevant information about COST into an “easy to use” publication. This guide includes information on the COST structure and goals, the Open Call, the National Coordinators (contact points) and financial Instruments plus, most importantly, the COST Actions. In this issue, the Actions are presented from the most recent ones to those ending this year. In order to highlight COST’s interdisciplinary dimension, Trans-Domain Actions are presented in a separate sub-chapter. Complementary Action information can be found on the COST website.