Overview

Climate Change Resilience in the Urban Environment provides a detailed overview of the risks of climate change for urban areas including those risks to human health. Of particular focus is the urban microclimate and how this can be modified to make cities more efficient, more comfortable, and healthier places to live and potentially offset climate change. This second edition provides fresh perspective to the material in the first edition, and includes additional material on green and blue infrastructure in urban areas, the influence of urban geometry on comfort, heat islands and energy usage. Key Features: Provides a comprehensive review of the impacts of climate change on the urban environment. Provides details of measures that can be employed to alleviate the effects of climate change (increase resilience). Includes an easy-to-understand guide of the building physics processes and how these determine climate resilience

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Author:   Dr Tristan Kershaw (University of Bath)
Publisher:   Institute of Physics Publishing
Imprint:   Institute of Physics Publishing
Edition:   2nd edition
ISBN:  

9780750352604

ISBN 10:   0750352604
Pages:   226
Publication Date:   29 November 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

1 Foreword 2 Climate Change Impacts • The greenhouse effect • The historic climate signal • The anthropogenic greenhouse effect • Climate change projections (updated where possible) • Climate change impacts (updated where possible) • Decarbonisation and mitigation targets for the built environment. (examining the IEA pathways – where we are and how far we have to go) 3 Water (figures updated where possible) • Sea level rise • Storm surges • Flooding • Flash flooding • Potential solutions 4 Temperatures (figures updated where possible) • Human physiology • Overheating and overcooling • Building physics and possible adaptations • Learning from other architectures 5 The Urban Heat Island Microclimate • Boundary layer creation The energetic basis and UHI creation (now to include more about the various turbulent fluxes and how these are altered above a city) • Observing the urban microclimate i. Field experiments ii. Numerical modelling iii. Scale models iv. Remote sensing • Weather influence • Implications of the UHI on the built environment (to include consideration of the effects of UHI on building form and function and performance. Also, the effects of façade material choices on building performance and the UHI) • Air quality in cities 6 Planning for Urban Resilience • Are cities efficient? (a consideration of what is a modern, efficient, healthy city – from Garden Cities to Jane Jacobs) • Urban geometry, comfort and energy implications • Green and blue infrastructure • Thermal effects of green space (new modelling results to be added) • Green space implications for city planning • Green building envelopes • Thermal properties of blue space • Thermal effects of blue space (new modelling analysis to be added) • Urban planning for the UHI. 7 Weather Extremes (figures updated where possible) • Heat waves • Storms i. Driving rain ii. Flooding iii. Wind shear • Implications for building resilience and adaptive capacity 8 Conclusions (updated to reflect new sections) • Building Resilience (now to include a consideration of heritage) • Urban Resilience

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Tristan Kershaw is currently an Associate Professor in Climate Resilience at the University of Bath. Tristan graduated from the University of Exeter in 2004 with a Master’s degree in Physics and went on to study for a PhD in low temperature solid state physics. After completing his PhD, he joined the Centre for Energy and the Environment also at the University of Exeter as a research fellow in climate change adaptation working on a variety of ‘building physics’ related research and consultancy projects, including the creation of probabilistic future weather years for the thermal modelling of buildings and the simulation and design adaptation of several exemplar buildings across the southwest region. Since 2014, Tristan has worked at the University of Bath in the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, teaching both undergraduate and postgraduate, engineers and architects on the topics of building physics, sustainability, climate change and the dynamic modelling of building designs.

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