Climate adaptation and resilience across scales from buildings to cities

"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 hi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Rajkovich, Nicholas B. (-)
Otros Autores: Rajkovich, Nicholas B., editor (editor), Holmes, Seth H., editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Routledge 2021.
[2022]
Edición:First edition
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009866286106719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Contributor Biographies
  • Foreword
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Resilient Design Modeling: Where Are We and Where Can We Go?
  • 3. Planning for a Changing Climate without Accurate Predictions
  • 4. Tools for Community Energy Empowerment: A Co-Design Approach
  • 5. RHOnDA: An Online Tool to Help Homeowners and Tenants Increase Resilience
  • 6. Resilience Hubs:Shifting Power to Communities through Action
  • 7. Climate Change and Health: Connecting the Dots, Building a Resilient Future
  • 8. Increasing Adaptive Capacity of Vulnerable Populations through Inclusive Design
  • 9. Passive Survivability: Understanding and Quantifying the Thermal Habitability of Buildings during Power Outages
  • 10. Designing Resilient Coastal Communities with Living Shorelines
  • 11. Adapting Inland Floodplain Housing to a Changing Climate: Disturbance, Risk, and Uncertainty as Drivers for Design
  • 12. 4D! Resilient Design in Four Dimensions
  • 13. Understanding Sustainability and Resilience as Applied: Tracking the Discourse in City Policy
  • 14. Perspectives from Practice
  • Index.