Adapting the Built Environment for Climate Change: Design Principles for Climate Emergencies

ISBN-13: 9780323953368 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 550 str.

Pacheco-Torgal, Fernando

Spis treści

1. Introduction to Adapting the Built Environment for Climate Change

PART 1 RISK ASSESSMENT AND SCENARIOS OF CLIMATIC RESILIENCE 2. A framework for risk assessment of climate change 3. Scenarios for urban resilience - Perspective on climate change resilience at the end of the 21st century of a PV-powered mixed-use energy community in two European capitals. 4. Adapting the Built Environment for Climate Change: Design Principles for Climate Emergencies

PART 2 CLIMATE EMERGENCY ADAPTATION OF INFRASTRUCTURES 5. Climate resilient transportation infrastructures in coastal cities 6. Climate change risks and bridge design 7. Resilience of concrete infrastructures 8. Challenges Around Climate Resilience on Transportation Infrastructures 9. A Worldwide Survey of Concrete Service Life in Various Climate Zones 10. Effect of Global Warming on Chloride Resistance of Concrete: A Case Study of Guangzhou, China

PART 3 BUILDING ADAPTATION TO HEAT WAVES AND FLOODS 11. Resilient cooling of buildings to protect against heat waves 12. Climate change and building performance - Pervasive role of climate change on residential building behavior in different climates 13. Climate-responsive architectural and urban design strategies for adapting to extreme hot events 14. Resilience of green roofs to climate change 15. Permeable concrete pavements for a climate resilient built environment 16. Building design in the context of climate change and a flood projection for Ankara 17. Amphibious housing as a sustainable flood resilient solution  18. Nature-based Solutions and Sponge City for Urban Water Management

O autorze

F. Pacheco-Torgal is a principal investigator at the CTAC Research Unit, University of Minho, Portugal. He currently holds the title of Counsellor from the Portuguese Engineers Association. Since 2019, he is a Scopus Highly Cited Scientist (SHCS) as per the Stanford University ranking. He has been a member of the editorial board of 9 international journals, 7 being indexed on Scopus or Web of Science, with the latest being "Case Studies in Construction Materials" since early 2023. Over the past 10 years he's participated in the editorial decisions of 606 journal papers. Prof. Pacheco-Torgal acted as a foreign expert in the evaluation of 29 PhD thesis and has been a member of the scientific committee of almost 60 conferences stretching back a decade, most of these in Asia. He is a grant assessor for several scientific institutions across 15 countries: the United Kingdom, United States, Netherlands, China, France, Australia, Kazakhstan, Belgium, Spain, Czech Republic, Chile, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Croatia, and Poland, and the EU Commission. In the last 10 years he has reviewed approaching 80 research projects and has been an invited reviewer for 150 international journals, for which he has reviewed 1764 papers so far. He has been the lead editor of 27 books published across Woodhead Publishing, Elsevier, and Springer, 25 of these being indexed on Scopus or in the Master Book List of Web of Science.

Claes Goran-Granqvist is Professor in the Department of Engineering Science at Uppsala University, Sweden. Professor Granqvist's research is focused on optical and electrical properties of materials, especially thin films for energy efficiency and solar energy utilization. He has published around 730 research papers in mostly refereed journals, over 30 books, had invited conference presentations at about 250 international conferences and chaired about 30 international meetings.