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Adapting the Built Environment for Climate Change
Design Principles for Climate Emergencies
- 1st Edition - January 30, 2023
- Editors: Fernando Pacheco-Torgal, Claes Goran-Granqvist
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 5 3 3 6 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 5 3 3 7 - 5
Adapting the Built Environment for Climate Change: Design Principles for Climate Emergencies analyzes several scenarios and proposes various adaptation strategies for climate e… Read more
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Request a sales quoteAdapting 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
Civil and structural engineers, architects, planners and designers, and other professionals with an interest in climate change and the built environment
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- List of contributors
- 1. Introduction to adapting the built environment for climate change
- Abstract
- 1.1 Signs of a climate emergency ahead
- 1.2 The irreversible need for the adaptation of the built environment to climate emergency
- 1.3 Outline of the book
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Part 1: Risk assessment and scenarios of climatic resilience
- 2. A framework for risk assessment
- Abstract
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Principles of risk assessment
- 2.3 Risks derived from climate change to cities: hazards and perspectives
- 2.4 Conclusions
- Acknowledgments
- References
- 3. Scenarios for urban resilience—perspective on climate change resilience at the end of the 21st century of a photovoltaic-powered mixed-use energy community in two European capitals
- Abstract
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Methodology
- 3.3 Results and discussion
- 3.4 Conclusions
- Acknowledgment
- References
- 4. Urban resilience through green infrastructure
- Abstract
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Key components for sustainable, livable, and resilient cities through green infrastructure
- 4.3 Access, design, and implementation of green infrastructure
- 4.4 Strategies and policies for building city resilience
- 4.5 Concluding remarks
- References
- Part 2: Climate emergency adaptation of infrastructures
- 5. Climate-resilient transportation infrastructure in coastal cities
- Abstract
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Climate change resilience of transportation infrastructure
- 5.3 Quantifying resilience to climate change and coastal flooding
- 5.4 Achieving climate resilience through adaptation
- 5.5 Valuing climate resilient infrastructure
- 5.6 Conclusion and future trends
- References
- Further reading
- 6. Climate change risks and bridge design
- Abstract
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Climate change projections and uncertainties
- 6.3 Climate change risks to bridges
- 6.4 Design of bridges in a changing climate
- 6.5 Challenges and research needs
- Acknowledgments
- References
- 7. Resilience of concrete infrastructures
- Abstract
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 Concrete resilience
- 7.3 Resilience
- 7.4 A case study
- 7.5 Conclusions
- References
- 8. Challenges surounding climate resilience on transportation infrastructures
- Abstract
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 Conceptual framework
- 8.3 Literature review
- 8.4 Road transport infrastructure
- 8.5 Railway transport infrastructure
- 8.6 Airport infrastructure
- 8.7 Port infrastructure
- 8.8 Research methodology
- 8.9 Case studies
- 8.10 Discussion
- 8.11 Conclusion and future direction
- References
- 9. A worldwide survey of concrete service life in various climate zones
- Abstract
- 9.1 Introduction
- 9.2 Backgrounds
- 9.3 Climate
- 9.4 Service life prediction
- 9.5 Results
- 9.6 Conclusions
- References
- 10. Effect of global warming on chloride resistance of concrete: a case study of Guangzhou, China
- Abstract
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 Temperatures and relative humidity: past and future
- 10.3 Chloride diffusion models
- 10.4 Results and discussion
- 10.5 Conclusion
- References
- Part 3: Building adaptation to heat waves, floods
- 11. Resilient cooling of buildings to protect against heatwaves and power outages
- Abstract
- 11.1 Introduction
- 11.2 Methodology
- 11.3 Results
- 11.4 Discussion
- 11.5 Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- References
- 12. Climate change and building performance: pervasive role of climate change on residential building behavior in different climates
- Abstract
- 12.1 Introduction
- 12.2 Methodology
- 12.3 Results and discussions
- 12.4 Conclusion
- References
- 13. Climate-responsive architectural and urban design strategies for adapting to extreme hot events
- Abstract
- 13.1 Introduction
- 13.2 Climate-responsive architectural design strategies for extreme hot events
- 13.3 Urban adaptive design strategies in responding to extreme hot events
- 13.4 Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- References
- 14. Resilience of green roofs to climate change
- Abstract
- 14.1 Introduction
- 14.2 Green roof as engineered system
- 14.3 Buildup green roof resilience through value
- 14.4 How to increase green roofs’ resilience to water scarcity?
- 14.5 Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- References
- 15. Permeable concrete pavements for a climate change resilient built environment
- Abstract
- 15.1 Introduction
- 15.2 Properties of permeable concrete
- 15.3 Factors controlling the performance of permeable concrete
- 15.4 Clogging
- 15.5 Current state-of-the-art in permeable concrete pavements
- References
- 16. Building design in the context of climate change and a flood projection for Ankara
- Abstract
- 16.1 Introduction
- 16.2 Climate change and its effects
- 16.3 Climate change flood risk analysis and effects on buildings
- 16.4 Case study about a “flood” risk analysis in Ankara
- 16.5 Future trends
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter 17. Amphibious housing as a sustainable flood resilient solution: case studies from developed and developing cities
- Abstract
- 17.1 Climate change and flood vulnerability
- 17.2 Research methodology
- 17.3 Adaptive techniques to combat flash floods: a comparative analysis
- 17.4 Amphibious housing: origin and development
- 17.5 Amphibious living: the Dutch experience
- 17.6 Amphibious living: the Thai experience
- 17.7 Amphibious living: the Jamaican experience
- 17.8 Comparative analysis
- 17.9 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 18. Nature-based solutions and sponge city for urban water management
- Abstract
- Acronyms
- 18.1 Introduction
- 18.2 The study methodology
- 18.3 The review of nature-based solutions to tackle water-related issues
- 18.4 The discussion of sponge city as part of nature-based solutions
- 18.5 Conclusions and future trends
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix
- References
- Index
- No. of pages: 430
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 30, 2023
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323953368
- eBook ISBN: 9780323953375
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Fernando Pacheco-Torgal
Dr. F. Pacheco-Torgal is a principal investigator at the University of Minho, in Portugal. He currently holds the title of Counsellor from the Portuguese Engineers Association and has authored more than 300 publications. He is a member of the editorial boards for 9 international journals. He has acted as a foreign expert in the evaluation of 30 PhD theses. In the last 10 years he has been a Member of the Scientific Committee for almost 60 conferences most of them in Asian countries. He is also a grant assessor for several scientific institutions in 15 countries including the UK, US, Netherlands, China, France, Australia, Kazakhstan, Belgium, Spain, Czech Republic, Chile, Saudi Arabia, UA. Emirates, Croatia, Poland, and the EU Commission. He has also been an invited reviewer for 125 international journals and has reviewed almost 1200 papers and has been the lead editor of 27 books.
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