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Survivability under Overheating
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The present book discusses three significant challenges of the built environment, namely regional and global climate change, vulnerability, and survivability under the changing climate. Synergies between local climate change, energy consumption of buildings and energy poverty, and health risks highlight the necessity to develop mitigation strategies to counterbalance overheating impacts. The studies presented here assess the underlying issues related to urban overheating. Further, the impacts of temperature extremes on the low-income population and increased morbidity and mortality have been discussed. The increasing intensity, duration, and frequency of heatwaves due to human-caused climate change is shown to affect underserved populations. Thus, housing policies on resident exposure to intra-urban heat have been assessed. Finally, opportunities to mitigate urban overheating have been proposed and discussed.
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Keywords
- air temperature
- Climate Change
- climate warming
- Cluster analysis
- coastal cities
- diurnal temperature range
- drought
- Environmental justice
- Health
- heatwave
- low-income population
- Mediterranean
- mitigation
- redlining
- Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects
- relative risk
- Research & information: general
- resilience
- sap flow
- semi-arid
- soil moisture
- standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI)
- subtropical desert climate
- survivability
- synoptic conditions
- time-series
- transpiration cooling
- urban heat island
- urban heat islands
- urban overheating
- wind speed and wind directions
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DOI: 10.3390/books978-3-03943-870-9Editions