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Urban Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change
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Dear Colleagues,
With the global trend towards urbanization and the adverse effects of climate change, the design, implementation, and performance assessment of mitigation and adaptation strategies, are urgently needed at the urban level. However, many knowledge gaps in urban climate actions still need to be addressed from both the modelling (simulation of future urbanization scenarios, future climate pathways, etc.), and technical implementation (new materials solutions, nature-based solutions, etc.) standpoints. In addition, the definition and evaluation of adequate climate mitigation strategies at the urban level are still challenging given limitations in the data (urban building stock and climate-related) that lack proper granularity and spatial differentiation. This Topic is open to studies that investigate the problem of climate change mitigation and adaptation at the urban level from any of the three perspectives presented above, i.e., modelling approaches, technical solutions, and strategies for data quality improvement. Potential themes relevant to this Research Topic may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Urban building energy modelling (BEM) and building information modelling (BIM) applications;
- Urban heat island mitigation;
- Sustainability assessment of mitigation and adaptation solutions in the built environment;
- Data-driven methods for the characterization of urban impacts;
- Social impacts of building-integrated technologies;
- Renewable energy systems;
- Regenerative buildings and infrastructure.
Dr. Antonino Marvuglia
Dr. Maider Llaguno-Munitxa
Dr. Federico Amato
Topic Editors
Keywords
- climate adaptation
- climate mitigation
- BEM
- BIM
- data-driven
- machine-learning
- regenerative sustainability
- renewable energy systems
Participating Journals
Journal Name | Impact Factor | CiteScore | Launched Year | First Decision (median) | APC |
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Sustainability
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3.3 | 6.8 | 2009 | 19.7 Days | CHF 2400 |
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Atmosphere
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2.5 | 4.6 | 2010 | 16.1 Days | CHF 2400 |
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Climate
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3.0 | 5.5 | 2013 | 19.7 Days | CHF 1800 |
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Buildings
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3.1 | 3.4 | 2011 | 15.3 Days | CHF 2600 |
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Urban Science
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2.1 | 4.3 | 2017 | 20.7 Days | CHF 1600 |
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