Optimization and Evaluation of Climate Responsive Design Solutions for Buildings and Cities: 2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

The recurrency of extreme weather conditions and the impact of climate change on the built environment call for an urgent and deep reflection not only on solutions able to support the achievement of a carbon-neutral society, but also on how to deal with resource scarcity that will affect many regions across the globe in the next decades.

Climate Responsive Design represents the combination of several approaches and strategies to make buildings and cities able to respond to contemporary challenges optimizing their systems, configuration and operation according to variable and sometimes extreme context conditions.

This Special Issue of Sustainability aims at collecting scientific contributions on climate-responsive solutions focusing on adaptive capacity, energy efficiency and environmental quality of buildings and cities carefully considering technical, social, economic implications.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Climate Adaptive Building solutions.
• Mitigation and adaptation actions at urban scale.
• NBS and the water management in the built environment.
• Water scarcity and its impact in the building sector.
• Carbon neutral transition.
• Energy efficiency and energy poverty.
• Predictive and/or operative frameworks for climate-resilient cities.
• User-centered design approaches to improve built environment livability.
• Case study discussions, as well as simulation or theoretical research, are encouraged.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Jacopo Gaspari
Dr. Lia Marchi
Dr. Laura Aelenei
Guest Editors

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