Climate change resilience in the urban environment /

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"Version: 20241101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Climate change and its impacts -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. The greenhouse effect -- 1.3. The historic climate signal -- 1.4. The anthropogenic greenhouse effect -- 1.5. Climate change projections -- 1.6. Climate change impacts2. Decarbonisation and mitigation targets for the built environment -- 2.1. The problem with renewables -- 2.2. Increasing efficiency in the buildings sector -- 2.3. Projecting global buildings sector energy consumption -- 2.4. Can current energy efficiency codes save the planet? -- 2.5. Conclusions3. Water -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Sea level rise -- 3.3. Storm surge -- 3.4. Flooding -- 3.5. Flash flooding -- 3.6. Potential solutions -- 3.7. Conclusions4. Temperatures -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Human physiology and thermal comfort -- 4.3. Overheating -- 4.4. Overcooling -- 4.5. Building physics and possible adaptations -- 4.6. Learning from other architectures -- 4.7. Summary5. The urban microclimate -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Boundary layer creation -- 5.3. The energetic basis and urban heat island creation -- 5.4. Weather influence -- 5.5. Observing the urban microclimate -- 5.6. Implications of the UHI on the built environment -- 5.7. Air quality in cities6. Planning for urban resilience -- 6.1. Are cities efficient? -- 6.2. The garden city movement -- 6.3. Urban geometry effects on comfort and energy use -- 6.4. Green and blue infrastructure -- 6.5. Thermal effects of green space -- 6.6. Green space implications for city planning -- 6.7. Green building envelopes -- 6.8. Thermal properties of blue space -- 6.9. Thermal effects of blue space -- 6.10. Urban planning for the UHI7. Weather extremes -- 7.1. Heatwaves -- 7.2. Storms8. Conclusions -- 8.1. Building resilience -- 8.2. Urban resilience.Full-text restricted to subscribers or individual document purchasers.Climate Change Resilience in the Urban Environment provides a detailed overview of the risks of climate change for urban areas including those risks to human health. Of particular focus is the urban microclimate and how this can be modified to make cities more efficient, more comfortable, and healthier places to live and potentially offset climate change. This second edition provides fresh perspective to the material in the first edition, and includes additional material on green and blue infrastructure in urban areas, the influence of urban geometry on comfort, heat islands and energy usage.General science interest (e.g. IoP members) or those wishing to gain a broader understanding of urban resilience e.g. Architects, engineers and city planners.Also available in print.Mode of access: World Wide Web.System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader.Tristan Kershaw is currently an Associate Professor in Climate Resilience at the University of Bath. Tristan graduated from the University of Exeter in 2004 with a Master's degree in Physics and went on to study for a PhD in low temperature solid state physics. After completing his PhD, he joined the Centre for Energy and the Environment also at the University of Exeter as a research fellow in climate change adaptation working on a variety of 'building physics' related research and consultancy projects, including the creation of probabilistic future weather years for the thermal modelling of buildings and the simulation and design adaptation of several exemplar buildings across the southwest region. Since 2014, Tristan has worked at the University of Bath in the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, teaching both undergraduate and postgraduate, engineers and architects on the topics of building physics, sustainability, climate change and the dynamic modelling of building designs.Title from PDF title page (viewed on December 13, 2024).

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1 online resource (various pagings) :illustrations (some color).

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English

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9780750352628

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304.2/091732

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Second edition.

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Urban ecology (Sociology)
City planning
SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change.
Urban & municipal planning.

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Tristan Kershaw.

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