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oapen-20.500.12657-526592023-06-28T09:23:18Z Climate Adaptation and Resilience Across Scales Rajkovich, Nicholas B. Holmes, Seth H. Environmentally-friendly (‘green’) architecture and design Architectural structure and design Architecture: public buildings City and town planning: architectural aspects Urban and municipal planning Urban communities bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AM Architecture::AMC Architectural structure & design::AMCR Environmentally-friendly architecture & design bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AM Architecture::AMC Architectural structure & design bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AM Architecture::AMG Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AM Architecture::AMV Landscape art & architecture::AMVD City & town planning - architectural aspects bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RP Regional & area planning::RPC Urban & municipal planning bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFS Social groups::JFSG Urban communities 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 highlights North American cases that deal with issues such as climate projections, public health, adaptive capacity of vulnerable populations, and design interventions for floodplains, making the content applicable to many locations around the world. The contributors in this book discuss topics ranging from how built environment professionals respond to a changing climate, to how the building stock may need to adapt to climate change, to how resilience is currently being addressed in the design, construction, and operations communities. The purpose of this book is to provide a better understanding of climate change impacts, vulnerability, and resilience across scales of the built environment. Architects, urban designers, planners, landscape architects, and engineers will find this a useful resource for adapting buildings and cities to a changing climate. 2022-02-03T16:18:22Z 2022-02-03T16:18:22Z 2022 book ONIX_20220203_9781000470963_15 9781000470963 9781003030720 9780367467340 9780367467333 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/52659 eng application/pdf application/epub+zip Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781000470963.pdf external_content-4.epub Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003030720 10.4324/9781003030720 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb Knowledge Unlatched 9781000470963 9781003030720 9780367467340 9780367467333 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Routledge 286 open access
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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 highlights North American cases that deal with issues such as climate projections, public health, adaptive capacity of vulnerable populations, and design interventions for floodplains, making the content applicable to many locations around the world. The contributors in this book discuss topics ranging from how built environment professionals respond to a changing climate, to how the building stock may need to adapt to climate change, to how resilience is currently being addressed in the design, construction, and operations communities. The purpose of this book is to provide a better understanding of climate change impacts, vulnerability, and resilience across scales of the built environment. Architects, urban designers, planners, landscape architects, and engineers will find this a useful resource for adapting buildings and cities to a changing climate.
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