[Book Chapter] Adapting the Built Environment for Climate Change: Design Principles for Climate Emergencies

The purpose of this book is to structure and summarize the latest knowledge on the field of adapting the built environment for climate change 🌦️. The resilient definition, according to the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction ⛑️, encompasses the ability of a system, community or society exposed to hazards to resist, absorb, accommodate, adapt to, transform, and recover from the effects of a hazard in a timely and efficient manner, including through the preservation and restoration of its essential basic structures 🏗️ and functions through risk management (UNDRR, 2016). Based on this context, the following research questions are formulated:

✅  What are the climate risks and disruptions our cities' infrastructure faces?

✅  What are the key components and dimensions and possible pathways to meet the needs for resilient cities.?

The book sets the framework and concepts for risk assessment throughout the book. The chapters have a twofold purpose. The first one is to introduce and present the basic concepts that are needed for a framework in climate change risk assessment, considering the most recent and accepted definitions in the literature. In addition, it includes various definitions of risk and different risk assessment frameworks, focusing especially on the well-accepted IPCC 🌍 framework. The second purpose is to address and understand the main risks that climate change presents for the built environment, both direct and systemic, by analyzing the main hazards and their interaction with urban areas and infrastructure. This book concludes with a general outlook into the aspects of the built environment to consider when assessing risk, including responses as part of the frameworks and the importance of complex risk assessment when addressing cities.

Citation of the Book:
Pacheco-Torgal, F., & Goran-Granqvist, C. (Eds.). (2023). Adapting the Built Environment for Climate Change: Design Principles for Climate Emergencies. Elsevier, New York, USA, ISBN: 9780323953368.

Citation of Chapter 11:
Attia (2023). Resilient cooling of buildings to protect against heatwaves and power outages in Adapting the Built Environment for Climate Change: Design Principles for Climate Emergencies. Pacheco-Torgal, F., & Goran-Granqvist, C. (Eds.), Elsevier, New York, USA, ISBN: 9780323953368.

📣 Read and share the 📄 chapter. The paper is available in Open Access format: https://lnkd.in/ePcdQtEd

Thank you, Fernando Pacheco-Torgal and Claes-Goran Granqvist, for inviting me to write chapter 11. This study was a part of the IEA EBC Annex 80-Resilient Cooling of Buildings.

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