.... Innocent Chigozie Osuizugbo can be contacted at: icosuizugbo@yahoo.com 01 05 2024 26 08 2024 22 09 2024 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Carbon emission Climate change Construction Greenhouse gas Technological...

... in the development of organizational and localized carbon emission reduction policies. Social implications Local authorities who plan economic activities such as trading and associated taxation in urban areas in developing countries should consider the climate change implications of such socioeconomic activities...

... applied the topic modelling analyses on the 15 publications using the R studio application. Findings Topic modelling applied through text mining clustered four (4) themes. The themes that emerged from the topic modelling process were building adaptation to flooding, climate change and resilient...

... of original HHBs materials has increased over time due to age, exposure to slow-climate change and sudden-onset natural and human-induced hazards; rapid growth of cities and districts; need of energy upgrade intervention and renewable energy source systems integration to cope with climate change mitigation...

...Zahra Jalali; Asaad Y. Shamseldin; Sandeeka Mannakkara Purpose Climate change reports from New Zealand claim that climate change will impact some cities such as Auckland from a heating-dominated to a cooling-dominated climate. The benefits and risks of climate change on buildings' thermal...

... and severity due to climate change, with costs for a dry event year of more than £500m to UK insurers. Assessing the character of these event years can inform government, local government, insurers and their agents as to the typical characteristics of an event year and its impacts. The purpose of this paper...

...Bindhu Kumari Sreekandan Nair Nidhin; Niluka Domingo; Thao Thi Phuong Bui; Suzanne Wilkinson Purpose In light of climate change, the design and construction of buildings needs to shift from conventional to lower-carbon practices to maximise carbon reduction. Over the past few years, the zero...

..., reduce and mitigate single- and multi-risk. In addition, the present contribution aims to provide decision makers with some information to face the exacerbation of the risk caused by the expected climate change. Design/methodology/approach Material and data collection started with the consultation...

...Gökçe Tomrukçu; Touraj Ashrafian Purpose The residential buildings sector has a high priority in the climate change adaptation process due to significant CO₂ emissions, high energy consumption and negative environmental impacts. The article investigates how, conversely speaking...

... of global climate change, the loss of agricultural production and the consequent risk of increased famine; degradation in terms of land use and coverage; increase in landslides and floods; water scarcity; and the proliferation of disease vectors are threats that can also be associated with climate change...

...Ayoub Abou Houraira; Abdellah Ouali; Ouafa Elhammoumi; Ahmed Fekri Purpose Morocco is facing climate change, as shown by national studies conducted to date. The purpose of our research work is, on one hand, to develop an experimental protocol; simulating the Moroccan climate, through exposing...

... play a vital role in climate change and have devastating effects on the environment and weather patterns (Berardi and Jafarpur, 2020 ; de Rubeis et al., 2020). Different scenarios, in this issue, focus on the building sector with 40% of energy consumption and 30% of greenhouse gas emission...

...Kofi Agyekum; Emmanuel Adinyira; James Anthony Oppon Purpose The increased awareness of global environmental threats like climate change has created an upsurge of interest in low embodied carbon building materials for green building delivery. Though the literature advocates for the use of hemp...

...Rachel Paschoalin; Nigel Isaacs Purpose Holistic renovation of historic and heritage buildings involving different stakeholders has the potential to reduce environmental impact. Climate change concerns are emphasizing environmental issues of cultural built heritage leading to new policies...

... would begin to appreciate and understand occupant behaviours in the use of ACs towards combating climate change, especially as building energy consumption is heavily influenced by the behaviour of its occupants. This study aims to identify occupant behaviours that leads to efficient use of ACs in public...

...Sara Wilkinson; Nimish Biloria; Peter Ralph Purpose As the impacts of climate change become more evident, the need to adopt new ways of constructing buildings becomes more urgent. The Earth has experienced hotter climates globally for the last 70 years ( NASA, 2019 ), and this has resulted...

...Cormac Flood; Lloyd Scott Purpose The residential sector in Ireland accounted for 25 per cent of energy related CO2 emissions in 2016 through burning fossil fuels, a major contributor to climate change. In support of Ireland’s CO2 reduction targets, the existing housing stock could contribute...

...Geraldine Kikwasi; Elinorata Mbuya Purpose There is evidence of increasing urban floods being aftermath of climate change. The purpose of this paper is to present findings-related analysis of vulnerability of building structures in informal settlements to floods and associated coping strategies...

...Toni A. Pakkala; Arto Köliö; Jukka Lahdensivu; Matti Pentti Purpose A significant part of Finnish concrete building stock is relatively young. Thus methods to adopt the existing building stock to climate change are needed. To plan and correctly timing the service actions there is a need to study...

... in Queensland, Australia. Findings The analysis shows that enhancing energy efficiency enables heritage buildings to reduce their climate change impacts. However, the installation of equipment for energy efficiency can pose technical issues for heritage buildings. The ownership of heritage building...