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Urban and Buildings Regeneration Strategy to Climatic Change Mitigation, Energy, and Social Poverty after a World Health and Economic Global Crisis
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In recent months, we have suffered the effects of an unexpected global health crisis that has led to an even worse global economic crisis, with GDPs plummeting to unprecedented levels. While our health workers struggle to find a vaccine to protect our health, we have had to live through situations hitherto unimagined, and we have spent even more time in our homes while our streets remained empty, which has brought to light the weaknesses and strengths of our system and our way of building and designing. Our aim is to publish research projects and papers that contribute to reactivate the Construction Sector from within, in the context of this world economic crisis. Such an effort will focus especially on solutions that improve the quality of indoor air in buildings, strengthening the circular economy in an eco-efficient rehabilitation of buildings and neighborhoods in our cities.


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Assessing the Impact of Climate Change on Urban Cultural Heritage
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This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue titled “Assessing the Impact of Climate Change on Urban Cultural Heritage” hosted at the Atmosphere journal. This topic has been chosen in light of cities’ ever-growing role and immense potential in the climate adaptation and mitigation discourse and the particular challenges regarding urban heritage making and conservation. It is critical to recognise the complex set of factors governing the physical, social and political future of urban heritage in cityscapes in constant transformation and in an era of planetary urbanisation. The 10 papers (seven research papers, two reviews and one opinion piece) that comprise the issue give a broad cross-section of the issues pertinent to this important topic – accounts on practices and conceptual/methodological improvements in energy retrofit and reuse, risk mapping, urban planning, climate vulnerability assessment, and community engagement by 38 authors from seven countries are used to delineate the implications of current and likely future climates on heritage materials and systems, knowledge and practice gaps, as well as steps that need to be taken to ensure both their safeguarding and their valorisation to achieve climate resiliency.


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Urban and Buildings Regeneration Strategy to Climatic Change Mitigation, Energy, and Social Poverty after a World Health and Economic Global Crisis
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In recent months, we have suffered the effects of an unexpected global health crisis that has led to an even worse global economic crisis, with GDPs plummeting to unprecedented levels. While our health workers struggle to find a vaccine to protect our health, we have had to live through situations hitherto unimagined, and we have spent even more time in our homes while our streets remained empty, which has brought to light the weaknesses and strengths of our system and our way of building and designing. Our aim is to publish research projects and papers that contribute to reactivate the Construction Sector from within, in the context of this world economic crisis. Such an effort will focus especially on solutions that improve the quality of indoor air in buildings, strengthening the circular economy in an eco-efficient rehabilitation of buildings and neighborhoods in our cities.

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Technology: general issues --- patrimony --- tower --- buildings rehabilitation --- eco-sustainable --- sustainable --- town planning --- resource efficiency --- eco-efficient construction solutions --- environmental --- green public procurement --- renovation --- construction --- energy --- circular economy --- innovation --- green --- urban regeneration --- roof refurbishment --- energy performance --- sustainable development goals --- urban design --- neighborhood regeneration --- competition --- architectural education --- indoor environmental quality --- health --- accessibility 2 --- housing typology 3 --- COVID-19 4 --- social isolation 5 --- regulations 6 --- architectural barriers --- energy poverty --- climate change --- life-cycle analysis --- direct and indirect energy --- bill of quantities --- urban realm --- accessibility --- social inclusion --- active aging --- social services --- heritage regeneration --- water mills --- sustainable prefabrication --- local industry --- housing --- optimization --- cool roof --- thermal insulation --- aging effect --- social housing --- life-cycle cost analysis --- city --- indicators --- social gap --- pandemic --- patrimony --- tower --- buildings rehabilitation --- eco-sustainable --- sustainable --- town planning --- resource efficiency --- eco-efficient construction solutions --- environmental --- green public procurement --- renovation --- construction --- energy --- circular economy --- innovation --- green --- urban regeneration --- roof refurbishment --- energy performance --- sustainable development goals --- urban design --- neighborhood regeneration --- competition --- architectural education --- indoor environmental quality --- health --- accessibility 2 --- housing typology 3 --- COVID-19 4 --- social isolation 5 --- regulations 6 --- architectural barriers --- energy poverty --- climate change --- life-cycle analysis --- direct and indirect energy --- bill of quantities --- urban realm --- accessibility --- social inclusion --- active aging --- social services --- heritage regeneration --- water mills --- sustainable prefabrication --- local industry --- housing --- optimization --- cool roof --- thermal insulation --- aging effect --- social housing --- life-cycle cost analysis --- city --- indicators --- social gap --- pandemic


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Assessing the Impact of Climate Change on Urban Cultural Heritage
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This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue titled “Assessing the Impact of Climate Change on Urban Cultural Heritage” hosted at the Atmosphere journal. This topic has been chosen in light of cities’ ever-growing role and immense potential in the climate adaptation and mitigation discourse and the particular challenges regarding urban heritage making and conservation. It is critical to recognise the complex set of factors governing the physical, social and political future of urban heritage in cityscapes in constant transformation and in an era of planetary urbanisation. The 10 papers (seven research papers, two reviews and one opinion piece) that comprise the issue give a broad cross-section of the issues pertinent to this important topic – accounts on practices and conceptual/methodological improvements in energy retrofit and reuse, risk mapping, urban planning, climate vulnerability assessment, and community engagement by 38 authors from seven countries are used to delineate the implications of current and likely future climates on heritage materials and systems, knowledge and practice gaps, as well as steps that need to be taken to ensure both their safeguarding and their valorisation to achieve climate resiliency.

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The arts --- historic buildings --- risk assessment --- WDR --- resilience --- sustainability --- extreme value analysis --- heritage values --- energy efficiency --- thermal comfort --- heritage conservation --- original features --- system dynamics --- social practices --- decision-making --- historic building --- durability --- performance --- life cycle analysis --- land-use --- tropics --- urban microclimate --- built heritage retrofit --- energy-efficient retrofit policy --- conservation policy --- UK --- Turkey --- earthquakes --- fire --- floods --- historic sites --- landslides --- museums --- insects --- sea level rise --- typhoons --- visitors --- extreme events --- climate projection --- Central Europe --- ProteCHt2save --- climate risk indices --- heritage climatology --- cultural heritage safeguarding --- preparedness --- energy-efficient retrofit --- historic residential buildings --- energy consumption prediction --- heritage buildings --- lithotype --- salt weathering --- kaolinisation --- microcracking --- weather events --- cultural heritage --- urban planning --- climate change --- historic buildings --- risk assessment --- WDR --- resilience --- sustainability --- extreme value analysis --- heritage values --- energy efficiency --- thermal comfort --- heritage conservation --- original features --- system dynamics --- social practices --- decision-making --- historic building --- durability --- performance --- life cycle analysis --- land-use --- tropics --- urban microclimate --- built heritage retrofit --- energy-efficient retrofit policy --- conservation policy --- UK --- Turkey --- earthquakes --- fire --- floods --- historic sites --- landslides --- museums --- insects --- sea level rise --- typhoons --- visitors --- extreme events --- climate projection --- Central Europe --- ProteCHt2save --- climate risk indices --- heritage climatology --- cultural heritage safeguarding --- preparedness --- energy-efficient retrofit --- historic residential buildings --- energy consumption prediction --- heritage buildings --- lithotype --- salt weathering --- kaolinisation --- microcracking --- weather events --- cultural heritage --- urban planning --- climate change


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WP3 - Innovation in Agriculture and Forestry Sector for Energetic Sustainability
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Year: 2021 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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The papers published in this Special Issue “WP3—Innovation in Agriculture and Forestry Sector for Energetic Sustainability” bring together some of the latest research results in the field of biomass valorization and the process of energy production and climate change and other areas relevant to energetic sustainability [1–20]. Moreover, several works address the very important topic of evaluating the safety aspects for energy plant use [21–24]. Responses to our call generated the following statistics:• Submissions (21);• Publications (15);• Rejections (6);• Article types: research articles (13), reviews (2). Of the submitted papers, 15 have been successfully published as articles. Reviewing and selecting the papers for this Special Issue was very inspiring and rewarding. We also thank the editorial staff and reviewers for their efforts and help during the process. For better comprehension, the contributions to this Special Issue are divided into sections, as follows.

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Technology: general issues --- biomass waste --- gasification --- power generation --- internal combustion engine --- CHP --- Aspen Plus --- rotary dryer --- drying process --- thermal energy --- wood chips --- life cycle analysis --- environmental valuation --- biochar --- willow --- pig manure --- renewable energy --- biomass --- olive pomace --- combustion --- ORC --- working fluid --- beet tops --- rotary cutting device --- tractor --- oscillations --- differential equations --- optimal parameters --- biomass production --- greenhouse --- multiple environmental parameters --- interactive optimization scheme --- spatial distributed factors --- online–offline strategy --- CFD-EA --- chipping --- pellet --- poplar --- SRWC --- pelletization --- biomass quality --- energy quality --- horse skidding --- winch skidding --- cable yarder --- life cycle assessment --- societal assessment --- economic assessment --- multi-criteria decision analysis --- sustainable forest management --- innovation --- agriculture --- forestry --- energy --- sustainability --- updraft --- syngas --- oxidizing agent --- energy saving --- efficiency --- controlled environment --- agricultural residues --- market --- anaerobic digestion --- global warming potential --- externalities --- compost --- woody pellet --- agropellet --- quality --- standards --- blending --- sugar beet --- beet top cutting --- tractor–harvester aggregate --- n/a --- online-offline strategy --- tractor-harvester aggregate


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Sustainable Construction
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Year: 2021 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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Construction is one of the main sectors that generates greenhouse gases. This industry consumes large amounts of raw materials, such as stone, timber, water, etc. Additionally, infrastructure should provide service over many years without safety problems. Therefore, their correct design, construction, maintenance, and dismantling are essential to reducing economic, environmental, and societal consequences. That is why promoting sustainable construction has recently become extremely important. To help address and resolve these types of questions, this book explores new ways of reducing the environmental impacts caused by the construction sector, as well promotes social progress and economic growth. The chapters collect the papers included in the “Sustainable Construction” Special Issue of the Sustainability journal. The papers cover a wide spectrum of issues related to the use of sustainable materials in construction, the optimization of designs based con sustainable indicators, the life-cycle assessment, the decision-making processes that integrate economic, social, and environmental aspects, and the promotion of durable materials that reduce future maintenance.


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Urban and Buildings Regeneration Strategy to Climatic Change Mitigation, Energy, and Social Poverty after a World Health and Economic Global Crisis
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In recent months, we have suffered the effects of an unexpected global health crisis that has led to an even worse global economic crisis, with GDPs plummeting to unprecedented levels. While our health workers struggle to find a vaccine to protect our health, we have had to live through situations hitherto unimagined, and we have spent even more time in our homes while our streets remained empty, which has brought to light the weaknesses and strengths of our system and our way of building and designing. Our aim is to publish research projects and papers that contribute to reactivate the Construction Sector from within, in the context of this world economic crisis. Such an effort will focus especially on solutions that improve the quality of indoor air in buildings, strengthening the circular economy in an eco-efficient rehabilitation of buildings and neighborhoods in our cities.


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Sustainable Construction
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Year: 2021 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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Construction is one of the main sectors that generates greenhouse gases. This industry consumes large amounts of raw materials, such as stone, timber, water, etc. Additionally, infrastructure should provide service over many years without safety problems. Therefore, their correct design, construction, maintenance, and dismantling are essential to reducing economic, environmental, and societal consequences. That is why promoting sustainable construction has recently become extremely important. To help address and resolve these types of questions, this book explores new ways of reducing the environmental impacts caused by the construction sector, as well promotes social progress and economic growth. The chapters collect the papers included in the “Sustainable Construction” Special Issue of the Sustainability journal. The papers cover a wide spectrum of issues related to the use of sustainable materials in construction, the optimization of designs based con sustainable indicators, the life-cycle assessment, the decision-making processes that integrate economic, social, and environmental aspects, and the promotion of durable materials that reduce future maintenance.


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WP3 - Innovation in Agriculture and Forestry Sector for Energetic Sustainability
Authors: --- --- --- --- --- et al.
Year: 2021 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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The papers published in this Special Issue “WP3—Innovation in Agriculture and Forestry Sector for Energetic Sustainability” bring together some of the latest research results in the field of biomass valorization and the process of energy production and climate change and other areas relevant to energetic sustainability [1–20]. Moreover, several works address the very important topic of evaluating the safety aspects for energy plant use [21–24]. Responses to our call generated the following statistics:• Submissions (21);• Publications (15);• Rejections (6);• Article types: research articles (13), reviews (2). Of the submitted papers, 15 have been successfully published as articles. Reviewing and selecting the papers for this Special Issue was very inspiring and rewarding. We also thank the editorial staff and reviewers for their efforts and help during the process. For better comprehension, the contributions to this Special Issue are divided into sections, as follows.


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Sustainable Construction
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Construction is one of the main sectors that generates greenhouse gases. This industry consumes large amounts of raw materials, such as stone, timber, water, etc. Additionally, infrastructure should provide service over many years without safety problems. Therefore, their correct design, construction, maintenance, and dismantling are essential to reducing economic, environmental, and societal consequences. That is why promoting sustainable construction has recently become extremely important. To help address and resolve these types of questions, this book explores new ways of reducing the environmental impacts caused by the construction sector, as well promotes social progress and economic growth. The chapters collect the papers included in the “Sustainable Construction” Special Issue of the Sustainability journal. The papers cover a wide spectrum of issues related to the use of sustainable materials in construction, the optimization of designs based con sustainable indicators, the life-cycle assessment, the decision-making processes that integrate economic, social, and environmental aspects, and the promotion of durable materials that reduce future maintenance.

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Technology: general issues --- rheological properties --- self-sensing --- piezo-resistivity --- graphene nanoplatelets --- structural health monitoring --- urban regeneration --- sustainable construction --- environmental effects --- surface urban heat island --- albedo --- sustainable concrete --- fly ash --- ultra fine fly ash --- sulphuric acid --- nitric acid --- exterior wall painting --- automation robot --- life cycle cost --- performance evaluation --- sustainable business strategies --- competitive advantage --- corporate sustainability --- bio-inspiration --- sustainability assessment --- function --- resource --- burden --- Design for sustainability --- life cycle thinking --- bio-flexi --- apartment housing --- construction process --- CO2 emissions --- high-speed railway (HSR) --- sustainable development --- unascertained measure --- analytic hierarchy process (AHP) --- Harbin-Dalian Passenger Dedicated Line (PDL) --- rebar corrosion --- cracked RC material --- aggressive environment --- durability --- electrochemical test methods --- SDGs --- construction --- supply networks --- sustainability --- FSC --- modern slavery --- bridges --- life-cycle assessment --- optimization --- ReCiPe --- Life Cycle Assessment --- Social Life Cycle Analysis --- reinforced concrete --- chloride corrosion --- preventive measures --- rheological properties --- self-sensing --- piezo-resistivity --- graphene nanoplatelets --- structural health monitoring --- urban regeneration --- sustainable construction --- environmental effects --- surface urban heat island --- albedo --- sustainable concrete --- fly ash --- ultra fine fly ash --- sulphuric acid --- nitric acid --- exterior wall painting --- automation robot --- life cycle cost --- performance evaluation --- sustainable business strategies --- competitive advantage --- corporate sustainability --- bio-inspiration --- sustainability assessment --- function --- resource --- burden --- Design for sustainability --- life cycle thinking --- bio-flexi --- apartment housing --- construction process --- CO2 emissions --- high-speed railway (HSR) --- sustainable development --- unascertained measure --- analytic hierarchy process (AHP) --- Harbin-Dalian Passenger Dedicated Line (PDL) --- rebar corrosion --- cracked RC material --- aggressive environment --- durability --- electrochemical test methods --- SDGs --- construction --- supply networks --- sustainability --- FSC --- modern slavery --- bridges --- life-cycle assessment --- optimization --- ReCiPe --- Life Cycle Assessment --- Social Life Cycle Analysis --- reinforced concrete --- chloride corrosion --- preventive measures

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