TY - BOOK ID - 145696569 TI - The Built Environment in a Changing Climate : Interactions, Challenges and Perspectives AU - Ulpiani, Giulia AU - Zinzi, Michele PY - 2021 PB - Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute DB - UniCat KW - Research & information: general KW - outdoor space KW - thermal environment KW - radiation environment KW - wind environment KW - heat-related mortality KW - built environment KW - urban resilience KW - extreme heat KW - climate change KW - urban heat island KW - heat stress from outside KW - indoor environments KW - tropics KW - multi-level office buildings KW - coastal cities KW - Mediterranean climate KW - urban heat island intensity KW - sample year KW - climate change adaptation KW - barriers KW - focus group discussion KW - Tehran KW - structural equation modeling KW - urban management KW - near-zero energy buildings KW - future scenarios KW - energy efficiency KW - adaptive comfort KW - long-term performance KW - urban heat KW - Australia KW - UHI effect KW - mitigation KW - bushfire smoke KW - indoor air quality KW - filtration KW - building envelope KW - energy KW - future weather data KW - building energy performance KW - thermal comfort KW - statistical downscaling of climate models KW - dynamical downscaling of climate models KW - urban modelling KW - cities KW - buildings KW - decarbonization KW - urbanisation KW - climate KW - densification KW - population KW - temperature UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:145696569 AB - The papers included in this Special Issue tackle multiple aspects of how cities, districts, and buildings could evolve along with climate change and how this would impact our way of conceiving and applying design criteria, policies, and urban plans. Despite the multidisciplinary nature of the collection, some transversal take-home messages emerge: • Today’s energy-efficient paradigms may lose their virtuosity in the future unless accurate estimates of future scenarios are used to design modelling platforms and to inform legislative frameworks; • Acting at the local scale is key. Future climate change adaptation will be implemented at the local level. Overlooking regional and local specificities will contribute to inaccurate and inefficient action plans. As such, the smaller scale will become vital in predicting future urban metabolic rates and corresponding comfort-driven strategies; • Energy poverty, heat vulnerability, and social injustice are emerging as critical factors for planning and acting for future-proof cities on par of micro- and meso-climatological factors; • Given that the impacts of climate change will persist for many years, adaptation to this phenomenon should be prioritized by removing any prominent barrier and by enabling combinations of different mitigation technologies. These topics will receive a global reach in few decades, since also developing and underdeveloped countries are starting their fight against local climate change, with cities at the forefront. ER -