TY - BOOK ID - 145403595 TI - Survivability under Overheating : The impact of Regional and Global Climate Change on Vulnerable and Low Income Population AU - Synnefa, Afroditi AU - Haddad, Shamila AU - Rajagopalan, Priya AU - Santamouris, Matthaios PY - 2020 PB - Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute DB - UniCat KW - Research & information: general KW - Mediterranean KW - semi-arid KW - drought KW - standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI) KW - climate warming KW - soil moisture KW - urban heat islands KW - environmental justice KW - climate change KW - redlining KW - heatwave KW - diurnal temperature range KW - time-series KW - relative risk KW - health KW - transpiration cooling KW - coastal cities KW - sap flow KW - subtropical desert climate KW - urban overheating KW - cluster analysis KW - air temperature KW - wind speed and wind directions KW - synoptic conditions KW - urban heat island KW - mitigation KW - resilience KW - survivability KW - low-income population KW - Mediterranean KW - semi-arid KW - drought KW - standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI) KW - climate warming KW - soil moisture KW - urban heat islands KW - environmental justice KW - climate change KW - redlining KW - heatwave KW - diurnal temperature range KW - time-series KW - relative risk KW - health KW - transpiration cooling KW - coastal cities KW - sap flow KW - subtropical desert climate KW - urban overheating KW - cluster analysis KW - air temperature KW - wind speed and wind directions KW - synoptic conditions KW - urban heat island KW - mitigation KW - resilience KW - survivability KW - low-income population UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:145403595 AB - The present book discusses three significant challenges of the built environment, namely regional and global climate change, vulnerability, and survivability under the changing climate. Synergies between local climate change, energy consumption of buildings and energy poverty, and health risks highlight the necessity to develop mitigation strategies to counterbalance overheating impacts. The studies presented here assess the underlying issues related to urban overheating. Further, the impacts of temperature extremes on the low-income population and increased morbidity and mortality have been discussed. The increasing intensity, duration, and frequency of heatwaves due to human-caused climate change is shown to affect underserved populations. Thus, housing policies on resident exposure to intra-urban heat have been assessed. Finally, opportunities to mitigate urban overheating have been proposed and discussed. ER -