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Adapting the Built Environment for Climate Change

Author : F. Pacheco-Torgal
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0323953379
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (239 download)

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Book Synopsis Adapting the Built Environment for Climate Change by : F. Pacheco-Torgal

Download or read book Adapting the Built Environment for Climate Change written by F. Pacheco-Torgal and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2023-01-30 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adapting the Built Environment for Climate Change: Design Principles for Climate Emergencies analyzes several scenarios and proposes various adaptation strategies for climate emergencies (heat waves, wildfires, floods, and storms). Divided into three themes, the book offers an organized vision of a complex and multi-factor challenge. It covers climatic resilience and building refurbishment, implications for service life prediction and maintainability, and climate adaptation in the maintenance and management of buildings. Sections cover infrastructure materials, climate emergency adaptation and building adaptation to heat waves, wildfires, floods and storms. The book will be an essential reference resource for civil and structural engineers, architects, planners, designers and other professionals who have an interest in the adaptation of the built environment against climate change. Presents technical solutions for adaptation of the built environment against climate change Features multiple authors spanning both engineering and architectural disciplines Proposes a systematic approach to implement low carbon solutions and build capacity to make successful transitions to a resilient city

Adapting Buildings and Cities for Climate Change

Author : Susan Roaf
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1856177203
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (561 download)

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Book Synopsis Adapting Buildings and Cities for Climate Change by : Susan Roaf

Download or read book Adapting Buildings and Cities for Climate Change written by Susan Roaf and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides insights into how we can protect our buildings, cities, infra-structures and lifestyles against risks associated with extreme weather and related social, economic and energy events. There are three new chapters present evidence of escalating rates of environmental change; and the authors explore the growing urgency for mitigation and adaptation responses that deal with the resulting challenges.

Adapting Buildings and Cities for Climate Change

Author : David Crichton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136431055
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)

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Book Synopsis Adapting Buildings and Cities for Climate Change by : David Crichton

Download or read book Adapting Buildings and Cities for Climate Change written by David Crichton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-08-11 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the bestseller 'Ecohouse' this challenging and exciting text gives you an insight into the real changes that are necessary to give our modern day built environment both 'sustainability' and 'survivability'. The book is based on the premise that climate change is going to happen and its impacts on our lives are going to be far worse than generally expected. Sue Roaf argues that many modern buildings are not only 'unsustainable' in themselves but are also having a catastrophic effect on the global climate. In a unique argument, she illustrates that the only way we can hope to survive the following century in tact is if we not only begin to radically reduce CO2 emissions from our buildings and stop building climatically disastrous building types but also build only the buildings that can survive in the changed climates of the future. Throughout the book, traditional and modern building types are used to: explain the history and impacts of climates past, present and future on buildings; set the scene in terms of the history of building development of where we are now and where we are going in terms of sustainability and survivability of buildings; develop two main scenarios of future building development with the 'business as usual' model and the 'survival plan' model, and to make a list of recommendations based on the two scenarios of what actions should be taken by architects, planners and engineers as well as local and national governments, businesses and ordinary people in ensuring the true sustainable nature of the built environment.

Climate Adaptation and Resilience Across Scales

Author : Nicholas B. Rajkovich
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000470997
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis Climate Adaptation and Resilience Across Scales by : Nicholas B. Rajkovich

Download or read book Climate Adaptation and Resilience Across Scales written by Nicholas B. Rajkovich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate Adaptation and Resilience Across Scales provides professionals with guidance on adapting the built environment to a changing climate. This edited volume brings together practitioners and researchers to discuss climate-related resilience from the building to the city scale. This book highlights North American cases that deal with issues such as climate projections, public health, adaptive capacity of vulnerable populations, and design interventions for floodplains, making the content applicable to many locations around the world. The contributors in this book discuss topics ranging from how built environment professionals respond to a changing climate, to how the building stock may need to adapt to climate change, to how resilience is currently being addressed in the design, construction, and operations communities. The purpose of this book is to provide a better understanding of climate change impacts, vulnerability, and resilience across scales of the built environment. Architects, urban designers, planners, landscape architects, and engineers will find this a useful resource for adapting buildings and cities to a changing climate.

Sustainable Building and Built Environments to Mitigate Climate Change in the Tropics

Author : Tri Harso Karyono
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319496018
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

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Book Synopsis Sustainable Building and Built Environments to Mitigate Climate Change in the Tropics by : Tri Harso Karyono

Download or read book Sustainable Building and Built Environments to Mitigate Climate Change in the Tropics written by Tri Harso Karyono and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a selection of the best papers presented during the International conference on Mitigating and Adapting Built Environments for Climate Change in the Tropics, held at Tanri Abeng University (TAU), Jakarta, Indonesia, March 2015. The book is divided into four main parts. The first part deals with the general issue of climate change, the cause and the ways to mitigate and to adapt the built environment for climate change in a number of countries. Part 2 deals with the conceptual ways to mitigate building for climate change. The ways to reduce cooling energy in tropical buildings by means of passive design. Part 3 offers papers that examine the way to overcome disasters in the city caused by climate change. The final part deals with the role of plants in mitigating and adapting built environments to climate change - the use of plants, trees and bushes to directly and indirectly reduce carbon emissions are discussed.

Two Degrees: The Built Environment and Our Changing Climate

Author : Alisdair McGregor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136182500
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)

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Book Synopsis Two Degrees: The Built Environment and Our Changing Climate by : Alisdair McGregor

Download or read book Two Degrees: The Built Environment and Our Changing Climate written by Alisdair McGregor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Earth’s temperature has been rising. To limit catastrophic outcomes, the international scientific community has set a challenging goal of no more than two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) average temperature rise. Economists agree we will save trillions of dollars by acting early. But how do we act successfully? And what’s the backup plan if we fall short? Setting politics aside, Two Degrees reviews the current science and explains how we can set practical steps to reduce the extent of warming and to adapt to the inevitable changes, all while improving the bottom line, beautifying our communities, and increasing human health. The book is a practical guide intended for a broad audience of those who occupy and shape our built environment. The authors provide a clear framework for communities, policy makers, planners, designers, developers, builders, and operators to help manage the impacts and capture the opportunities of our changing climate. Two Degrees is divided into three sections—Fundamentals, Mitigation, and Adaptation—covering a diverse array of topics ranging from climate-positive communities and low-carbon buildings to the psychology of choice and the cost of a low-carbon economy. After a foreword by Amory Lovins, more than 10 contributing authors share knowledge based on direct experience in all aspects of built environment practice. This book clarifies the misconceptions, provides new and unique insights, and shows how a better approach to the built environment can increase resilience and positively shape our future.

Transforming Markets in the Built Environment

Author : Susan Roaf
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136543201
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)

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Book Synopsis Transforming Markets in the Built Environment by : Susan Roaf

Download or read book Transforming Markets in the Built Environment written by Susan Roaf and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is an urgent need to build human capacity to make the often vulnerable and exposed buildings and communities we live and work in more resilient to the changing social, economic and physical environments around us. Extensive research has been done over the last decades on both mitigation and adaptation to climate change in the built environment, but the outputs of much of this research have failed to result in the wider uptake of effective greenhouse gas emission reduction solutions. This volume introduces credible 'fresh thinking' on how this may be done. For the first time an emerging generation of research is brought together that is directly concerned with understanding, influencing and leading the transformation of markets and thinking in the built environment. Chapters cover: defining values setting targets consumer motivation selling existing ideas better developing new design principles, paradigms and programmes optimizing solutions to ensure that when change does happen, it does so in the right direction. Papers are contributed by leading experts in fields ranging from philosophy, the social, political and physical sciences, engineering, architecture, mathematics and complexity science. The resulting volume will be essential reading for all those involved with changing the mindsets of a generation on the need to, and ways to, build resilience to rapid change and transforming markets in the built environment.

Spatial Planning and Climate Change

Author : Elizabeth Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136934952
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Book Synopsis Spatial Planning and Climate Change by : Elizabeth Wilson

Download or read book Spatial Planning and Climate Change written by Elizabeth Wilson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spatial planning has a vital role to play in the move to a low carbon energy future and in adapting to climate change. To do this, spatial planning must develop and implement new approaches. Elizabeth Wilson and Jake Piper explore a wide range of issues in this comprehensive book on the relationship between our changing climate and spatial planning, and suggest ways of addressing the challenges by taking a longer-sighted approach to our preparation for the future. This text includes: an overview of what we know already about future climate change and its impacts, as we attempt both to adapt to these changes and to reduce the emissions which cause them the role of spatial planning in relation to climate change, offering some theoretical and political explanations for the challenges that planning faces in the coming decades a review of policy and legislation at international, EU and UK levels in regard to climate change, and the support this gives to the planning system case studies detailing what responses the UK and the Netherlands have made so far in light of the evidence ways to help new and existing urban developments to reduce energy use and to adapt to climate change, through strengthening the relationships between urban and rural areas to avoid water shortage, floods or loss of biodiversity. The authors take an evidence-based look at this hugely important topic, providing a well-illustrated text for spatial planning professionals, politicians and the interested public, as well as a useful reference for postgraduate planning, geography, urban studies, urban design and environmental studies students.

Climate Change and the Built Environment

Author : P. Gary
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781737647300
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (473 download)

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Book Synopsis Climate Change and the Built Environment by : P. Gary

Download or read book Climate Change and the Built Environment written by P. Gary and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change and its impacts are creating uncertainties and challenges. To meet this challenge, new design philosophies for climate-safe infrastructure and reliable expertise for managing the risks of climate change are needed. Climate Change and the Built Environment is intended as a re-source for design professionals, owners, planners, contractors, and other industry stakeholders. It provides practical guidance and vital industry information, including design strategies for mit-igation and adaptation, new project approaches, contracting practices, risk management, and in-surance insights, and it lays out a path forward to address climate change through best practices. Readers will also find case studies that offer illustrative examples and recommendations for mak-ing projects more resilient and for protecting infrastructure assets. Solving for climate change will require a diversity of voices and perspectives. As design profes-sionals, we have a special role to play in re-establishing a balance between the natural and built environments. This book represents a proactive collaboration of women across the design industry and is reflective of the type of engagement which will be needed to solve for this challenge.

Solutions for Climate Change Challenges in the Built Environment

Author : Colin A. Booth
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444354515
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

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Book Synopsis Solutions for Climate Change Challenges in the Built Environment by : Colin A. Booth

Download or read book Solutions for Climate Change Challenges in the Built Environment written by Colin A. Booth and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The multi-disciplinary perspective provided here offers a strategic view on built environment issues and improve understanding of how built environment activities potentially induce global warming and climate change. It also highlights solutions to these challenges. Solutions to Climate change Challenges in the Built Environment helps develop an appreciation of the diverse themes of the climate change debate across the built environment continuum. A wide perspective is provided through contributions from physical, environmental, social, economic and political scientists. This strategic view on built environment issues will be useful to researchers as well as policy experts and construction practitioners wanting a holistic view. This book clarifies complex issues around climate change and follows five main themes: climate change experiences; urban landscape development; urban management issues; measurement of impact; and the future. Chapters are written by eminent specialists from both academic and professional backgrounds. The main context for chapters is the developed world but the discussion is widened to incorporate regional issues. The book will be valuable to researchers and students in all the built environment disciplines, as well as to practitioners involved with the design, construction and maintenance of buildings, and government organisations developing and implementing climate change policy.

Potential Implications of Climate Change in the Built Environment

Author : Hilary M. Graves
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781860814471
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)

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Book Synopsis Potential Implications of Climate Change in the Built Environment by : Hilary M. Graves

Download or read book Potential Implications of Climate Change in the Built Environment written by Hilary M. Graves and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309145910
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change by : National Research Council

Download or read book Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2011-01-06 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across the United States, impacts of climate change are already evident. Heat waves have become more frequent and intense, cold extremes have become less frequent, and patterns of rainfall are likely changing. The proportion of precipitation that falls as rain rather than snow has increased across the western United States and Arctic sea ice has been reduced significantly. Sea level has been rising faster than at any time in recent history, threatening the natural and built environments on the coasts. Even if emissions of greenhouse gases were substantially reduced now, climate change and its resulting impacts would continue for some time to come. To date, decisions related to the management and protection of the nation's people, resources, and infrastructure have been based on records in the recent past, when climate was relatively stable. Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change, part of the congressionally requested America's Climate Choices suite of studies, calls for a new paradigm-one that considers a range of possible future climate conditions and impacts that may be well outside the realm of past experience. Adaptation requires actions from many decision makers in federal, state, tribal, and local governments; the private sector; non-governmental organizations; and community groups. However, current efforts are hampered by a lack of solid information about the benefits, costs, and effectiveness of various adaptation options; climate information on regional and local scales; and a lack of coordination. Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change calls for a national adaptation strategy that provides needed technical and scientific resources, incentives to begin adaptation planning, guidance across jurisdictions, shared lessons learned, and support of scientific research to expand knowledge of impacts and adaptation.

Design for Climate Adaptation

Author : Billie Faircloth
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031363205
Total Pages : 917 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (313 download)

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Book Synopsis Design for Climate Adaptation by : Billie Faircloth

Download or read book Design for Climate Adaptation written by Billie Faircloth and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-01-01 with total page 917 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides new perspectives from leading researchers accentuating and examining the central role of the built environment in conceiving and implementing multifaceted solutions for the complex challenges of climate change, revealing critical potentials for architecture and design to contribute in more informed and long-term ways to the urgent transition of our society. The book offers a compilation of peer-reviewed papers that uniquely connects knowledge broadly across practice and academia, from the newest technologies and methods to indigenous knowledge, community engagement, techniques for ecosystem regeneration, nature-based solutions, and more. The book is part of a series of six volumes that explore the agency of the built environment in relation to the SDGs through new research conducted by leading researchers. The series is led by editors Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen and Martin Tamke in collaboration with the theme editors: - Design for Climate Adaptation: Billie Faircloth and Maibritt Pedersen Zari - Design for Rethinking Resources: Carlo Ratti and Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen (Eds.) - Design for Resilient Communities: Anna Rubbo and Juan Du (Eds.) - Design for Health: Arif Hasan and Christian Benimana (Eds.) - Design for Inclusivity: Magda Mostafa and Ruth Baumeister (Eds.) - Design for Partnerships for Change: Sandi Hilal and Merve Bedir (Eds.)

Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation for the Built Environment

Author : Athol Yates
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9781444335125
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (351 download)

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Book Synopsis Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation for the Built Environment by : Athol Yates

Download or read book Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation for the Built Environment written by Athol Yates and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Building Urban Resilience through Change of Use

Author : Sara J. Wilkinson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119231426
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (192 download)

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Book Synopsis Building Urban Resilience through Change of Use by : Sara J. Wilkinson

Download or read book Building Urban Resilience through Change of Use written by Sara J. Wilkinson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes all aspects of sustainable conversion adaptation of existing buildings and provides solutions for making urban settlements resilient to climate change This comprehensive book explores the potential to change the character of cities with residential conversion of office space in order to withstand the negative effects of climate change. It investigates the nature and extent of sustainable conversion in a number of global cities, as well as the political, economic, social, technological, environmental, and legal drivers and barriers to successful conversion. The book also identifies the key lessons learned through international comparisons with cases in the UK, US, Australia, and the Netherlands. Building Urban Resilience Through Change of Use covers the benefits and aspects of sustainable conversion adaptation through the whole lifecycle from inception, planning, and design, to procurement, construction, and management and operational issues. It illustrates and quantifies, through empirical research, the changes that have been achieved or delivered in sustainable conversion adaptation. The book gives an overview of all aspects of performance characteristics and the conversion adaptation of existing buildings. In the end, it enables planners to make more informed decisions about whether conversion adaptation is a good choice—and if so, which types of sustainability measures are best suited for projects. Provides detailed, empirical knowledge based on real-world research undertaken in five countries over three continents on both a citywide scale and on individual buildings Case studies and exemplars demonstrate the application of the knowledge in North and South America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and in Europe Addresses the key themes of technology, finance and procurement, and the regulatory framework The first research-based book to examine how to improve resilience to climate change through sustainable reuse of buildings, Building Urban Resilience Through Change of Use is a welcome book for researchers and academics involved in building surveying, urban development, and sustainability planning.

Climate Change Risks in Building

Author : Sally Vivian
Publisher : CIRIA
ISBN 13 : 086017638X
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Climate Change Risks in Building written by Sally Vivian and published by CIRIA. This book was released on 2005 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Construction clients, engineers, contractors and other interest groups will benefit from this up-to-date review of the implications of climate change and the practical guidance it contains on assessing and managing the associated risks, such as ground movement, rain penetration and wind loading.

Building Governance and Climate Change

Author : Richard Lorch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351184199
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Building Governance and Climate Change written by Richard Lorch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-23 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contribution of buildings to climate change is widely acknowledged. This book investigates how building regulatory systems are addressing the current and future effects of climate change, and how these systems can be improved. After presenting a comprehensive overview of how the current building regulatory system developed, some of the inadequacies are identified. The largest part of the book examines the potential for innovative policy solutions to address the real world problem of mitigating and adapting buildings to climate change. This publication contributes significantly to our understanding of the complexities of long-term energy efficiency in buildings. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Building Research & Information journal.