Low Carbon and Resilient Planning, Design, and Construction of the Built Environment: Mitigation and Adaptation Achievements and Future Directions
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "B: Energy and Environment".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 October 2023) | Viewed by 19587
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Life cycle assessment of the built environment; building performance
Interests: Life-cycle assessment, sustainable building and infrastructure systems, sustainable engineering modeling, industrial ecology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The life cycle of the built environment is critical for heading towards a lower carbon emission future due to the substantial stocks and flows of buildings and infrastructure. The built environment is also the context for significant planning and investments in climate adaptation and resilience, and as such, occupies a special place in the human response to changing climate. Thus, reducing the energy and carbon footprint of the construction and operation of buildings and infrastructure are major pathways to achieving carbon emission goals. Simultaneously, the built environment must adapt to changing climate in terms of increasing ambient temperature, including effects on building energy use intensity, rising sea levels and impacts of coastal inundation, and shifting precipitation and effects on storm water management and potable water supply.
This special issue seeks to publish a collection of articles that address the issues of carbon mitigation and low carbon adaptation across the life cycle of the built environment. The special issue will be a compendium that identifies key contributions and sheds light on future directions for the planning, design, construction, and operation of a low carbon built environment in both climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Prof. Dr. Robert J. Ries
Dr. Yuan Chang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Climate change mitigation in the built environment
- Climate change adaptation in the built environment
- Built environment resilience
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