Climate Adaptation and Resilience Across Scales: From Buildings to Cities

ISBN-13: 9780367467340 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 264 str.

Nicholas Rajkovich; Seth H. Holmes

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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: Keeping Occupants Safe in an Age of Disruptions;  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