...V. Hari; S. Subhashini Purpose This study aims to quantify how future climate change will alter thermal comfort and cooling demand in newly built single-family and multi-family detached houses in Chennai and to identify the most climate-resilient envelope wall materials and passive retrofit...

... Licensed re-use rights only Building energy performance Energy retrofit Climate change Intervention With the rapid population growth, the consumption mobility prevailing worldwide and the accompanying intensive energy consumption cause significant environmental and economic concerns...

...Lin Yu-Sheng; Pi Ying Lai All countries are addressing the drastic climate changes as high priority issues. The impact of climate change on coastal land use in Taiwan has been especially severe due to the country's long coastline. As such, developing strategies to promote the protection of coastal...

...Yonca Hürol; Jia Beisi CLIMATE CHANGE ETHICS – navigating the Perfect moral Storm Climate change ethics policy making © 2013 Open House International 2013 Licensed re-use rights only. book Review. Book Review book title: Climate CHanGe etHiCS navigating the Perfect moral Storm...

...Yonca Hürol CLIMATE CHANGE ETHICS – Navigating the Perfect Moral Storm Climate change ethics policy making book Review. Book Review book title: Climate CHanGe etHiCS navigating the Perfect moral Storm author s name: Donald a. brown Publisher s name: earthscan from Routledge Reviewer s...

...Yonca Hürol; Jia Beisi CLIMATE CHANGE ETHICS – navigating the Perfect moral Storm © 2013 Open House International 2013 Licensed re-use rights only. Climate change ethics policy making book Review. Book Review book title: Climate CHanGe etHiCS navigating the Perfect moral Storm...

...Rob Marsh Climate change means that buildings must greatly reduce their energy consumption. It is however paradoxical that climate mitigation in Denmark has created negative energy and indoor climate problems in housing that may be made worse by climate change. A literature review has been carried...

...Mike Adebamowo; Adetokunbo O. Ilesanmi Buildings have a considerable impact on the environment being responsible for a substantial proportion of global energy consumption, thus contributing significantly to the anthropogenic CO2 emissions, which evidence suggests is the main cause of climate change...

...Martin Roders; Ad Straub; Henk Visscher Climate change: the question is not anymore if it happens, but what the impact is of its effects such as drought, heat waves and increased precipitation on the quality of our lives in cities, offices and houses. A significant share of the Northern European...

...T. Valdbjørn Rasmussen Buildings play a vital economic and social role in society and are vulnerable to climate change. This paper suggests a strategic approach for existing buildings to withstand climate change. It emphasises the most likely climate impacts, including the change in mean year...

...Shariful Shikder; Monjur Mourshed; Andrew Price Recent climate change projections estimate that the average summertime temperature in the southern part of Great Britain may increase by up to 5.4°C by the end of the century. The general consensus is that projected increases in temperature...

...A. Mavrogianni; M. Davies; P. Wilkinson; A. Pathan Climate change presents potential increased threats to the comfort and health of urban populations as a result of higher summer temperatures. This paper reviews recent research on the climate change adaptation potential of urban environments...

...Christine Wamsler This paper analyses how disaster risk management paradigms have gradually developed since the 1960s, shaped by practical experience of-and the debate about-the rising number of disasters, growing urbanization, and changing climatic conditions. In this context, climate change...

... and national level. © 2008 Open House International 2008 Licensed re-use rights only. Vulnerability Reduction Hazard Prevention Typhoon Climate Change VACCINATE YOUR HOME AGAINST THE STORM REDUCING VULNERABILITY IN VIETNAM John Norton & Guillaume Chantry open house international Vol 33, No.2...