Emerging Topics in the Sustainable Built Environment: Climate Change Adaptation, Energy Poverty and Well-Being
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Green Building".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 2911
Special Issue Editors
Interests: climate adaptation of buildings; building energy performance; bioclimatic building design and sustainability; building envelope performance; building energy simulation; climate change and building performance; occupant behaviour and built environment interaction
Interests: urban resilience; urban microclimate; urban sustainability; sustainable development; energy efficiency in building; built environment; building technology; environmental monitoring; wearable sensing; human comfort; multi-domain comfort; crowdsensing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
A resilient built environment is considered essential for sustainable development. Researchers and designers have been constantly responding to the opportunities and limitations posed by climate, occupant needs, societal expectations, and construction technology. With each day, living environments are more associated with comfort, health, and high energy efficiency. On the other hand, the last century has exhibited an extremely rapid increase in CO2 emissions and other greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, accelerating global warming. The latter brings challenges on how to adapt to ever-increasing temperatures to which the built environment is exposed. Global temperatures are exceeding their highest ever measured values, extreme weather events, and the built environment adapted to past, colder climates—all of these facts present a very high risk for overheating, a deteriorated living environment, and a threat to human health and energy security.
Therefore, a timely adaptation to climate change is essential to ensure a sustainable built environment and provide human indoor and outdoor comfort, achieving high energy efficiency and fighting energy poverty. This Special Issue focuses on the approaches, tools, methods, and materials that support sustainable and affordable climate change adaptation, energy poverty mitigation, and a comfortable and healthy built environment. In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Climate change adaptation in the built environment;
- Sustainability, vulnerability, and resilience of high-performance and low-income buildings;
- Energy security, affordable housing, and the related evolution of energy and climate adaptation policies;
- Climate change-related indoor and outdoor environmental quality;
- Outdoor comfort conditions in urban areas and urban heat island mitigation and adaptation;
- Strategies and methods for the design and development of resilient buildings and urban resilience;
- Data collection and data management approaches and technologies for investigating indoor and outdoor conditions;
- Occupant–building interaction and crowdsensing as tools for achieving higher climate adaptation;
- Case studies in the built environment on energy efficiency, energy poverty, climate adaptation, environmental quality, and environmental monitoring.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Luka Pajek
Dr. Ilaria Pigliautile
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- climate change adaptation
- building performance evaluation
- building indoor comfort
- outdoor comfort
- urban heat island
- thermal comfort
- building sustainability and resilience
- energy security
- data collection and data management
- green building
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