Survivability Under Overheating

Author : Afroditi Synnefa
Publisher : MDPI
ISBN 13 : 3039438697
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Survivability under Overheating written by Afroditi Synnefa and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2020-12-23 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Afroditi Synnefa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783039438709
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Survivability Under Overheating written by Afroditi Synnefa and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Shie-yui Liong
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9811275459
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proceedings Of The 19th Annual Meeting Of The Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (Aogs 2022) written by Shie-yui Liong and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2023-04-26 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 19th Annual Meeting of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS 2022) was held from 1st to 5th August 2022. This proceedings volume includes selected extended abstracts from a challenging array of presentations at this conference. The AOGS Annual Meeting is a leading venue for professional interaction among researchers and practitioners, covering diverse disciplines of geosciences.

Author : Michele Zinzi
Publisher : MDPI
ISBN 13 : 3038976369
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Overheating - Progress on Mitigation Science and Engineering Applications written by Michele Zinzi and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The combination of global warming and urban sprawl is the origin of the most hazardous climate change effect detected at urban level: Urban Heat Island, representing the urban overheating respect to the countryside surrounding the city. This book includes 18 papers representing the state of the art of detection, assessment mitigation and adaption to urban overheating. Advanced methods, strategies and technologies are here analyzed including relevant issues as: the role of urban materials and fabrics on urban climate and their potential mitigation, the impact of greenery and vegetation to reduce urban temperatures and improve the thermal comfort, the role the urban geometry in the air temperature rise, the use of satellite and ground data to assess and quantify the urban overheating and develop mitigation solutions, calculation methods and application to predict and assess mitigation scenarios. The outcomes of the book are thus relevant for a wide multidisciplinary audience, including: environmental scientists and engineers, architect and urban planners, policy makers and students.

Author : Yesufu G. Oladipo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evaluating Overheating Preventative Measures in Residential Buildings and Passive Survivability written by Yesufu G. Oladipo and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buildings that are thoughtfully planned for future climate scenarios, designed well, and properly maintained have the potential to provide thermally comfortable environments. These same buildings can significantly reduce energy consumption and decrease CO2 emissions. This research evaluates the impact of the use of natural ventilation and modifications to the exterior wall to decrease the probability of heat-related illness and overheating. Assessments within this research are within a two-story residential building. The outdoor weather data selected for the assessments is from New York, NY during an extreme hot week. Assessments made within this research are intended to give guidance on the selection of the most appropriate combination of exterior wall properties and natural ventilation strategies within a well-insulated and tightly sealed building.

Author : Sandra G. Solaiman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0813809363
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Goat Science and Production written by Sandra G. Solaiman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-03-23 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Goat Science and Production presents comprehensive, state-of-the-art information on the science of goats and goat production for meat, dairy, and fiber. Chapters provide a fundamental understanding of the goat anatomy and physiology as well as production issues such as welfare, disease management, and feeding. Goat Science and Production is an essential introduction and reference to this increasingly important production animal.

Author : Nicholas B. Rajkovich
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000470997
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Climate Adaptation and Resilience Across Scales written by Nicholas B. Rajkovich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate Adaptation and Resilience Across Scales provides professionals with guidance on adapting the built environment to a changing climate. This edited volume brings together practitioners and researchers to discuss climate-related resilience from the building to the city scale. This book highlights North American cases that deal with issues such as climate projections, public health, adaptive capacity of vulnerable populations, and design interventions for floodplains, making the content applicable to many locations around the world. The contributors in this book discuss topics ranging from how built environment professionals respond to a changing climate, to how the building stock may need to adapt to climate change, to how resilience is currently being addressed in the design, construction, and operations communities. The purpose of this book is to provide a better understanding of climate change impacts, vulnerability, and resilience across scales of the built environment. Architects, urban designers, planners, landscape architects, and engineers will find this a useful resource for adapting buildings and cities to a changing climate.

Author : A. Hmantaranjan
Publisher : Scientific Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9387913260
Total Pages : 515 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Advances in Plant Physiology (Vol. 9) written by A. Hmantaranjan and published by Scientific Publishers. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The configuration of Volume 9 of the International Treatise Series has been done absolutely due to commendable contributions from World Scientists of eminence in unambiguous fields. Amazingly, within the time span of nine years, now this treatise has been duly recognized through 151 Web of Knowledge Current Contorts in - the hearts of distinguished readers and has beyond doubt achieved the international status. This programme has been undertaken with a view to reinforce the identical efforts to recognize the outcome of meticulous research in some of the very sensible and stirring areas of Molecular Physiology & Biology of Plants. In order to sustain and further advance Plant Physiology, it is dedicated to continue the originality and the introduction of spanking new ideas, ensure that the treatise welcomes the best science done across the full extent of modern plant biology, in general, and plant physiology., in particular, persevere on advancing the quality of what is published, place high value on the quality of production, and be highly attentive and responsive to the rapidly changing face of academic publishing. In spite of handiness of quick accessibility of vast literature from internet, this treatise series in the field of life sciences has been realized over and above to be like a true guide, friend and philosopher, everlastingly enlightening the most hidden perceptible nerves of an individual worker, which is beyond the competence of mere web service. In Volume 9. with inventive applied research, attempts have been made to bring together much needed twenty review articles by Forty-six contributors from Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, India, Italy and Spain dispersed duly evaluated by the respective Consulting Editors of international stature from India, U.K.:4„ U.S.A., Argentina. Australia, France, Germany, Japan, Spain. Portugal, Israel, and Morocco and rationally disseminated in Nine Sections. Creditably in this volume, over ten important reviews belong to the field of Environmental Stresses besides covering significant areas of research. In reality the treatise is prosperity fir interdisciplinary exchange of information. Apart from fulfilling the firm need of this kind of exclusive edition in different volumes for research teams and scientists engaged in various facets of research in Molecular Physiology and Biology of Plants in traditional and agricultural universities, institutes and research laboratories throughout the world, it would be extremely a constructive book and a voluminous reference material for acquiring advanced knowledge by post-graduate and Ph.D. scholars in response to the innovative courses in Plant Physiology, Plant Biochemistry, Plant Molecular Biology, Plant Biotechnology, Environmental Sciences, Plant Pathology, Microbiology, Soil Science & Agricultural chemistry, Agronomy, Horticulture, and Botany.

Author : Fergus Nicol
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000553582
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Resilient Thermal Comfort written by Fergus Nicol and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together some of the finest academics in the field to address important questions around the way in which people experience their physical environments, including temperature, light, air-quality, acoustics and so forth. It is of importance not only to the comfort people feel indoors, but also the success of any building as an environment for its stated purpose. The way in which comfort is produced and perceived has a profound effect on the energy use of a building and its resilience to the increasing dangers posed by extreme weather events, and power outages caused by climate change. Research on thermal comfort is particularly important not only for the health and well-being of occupants but because energy used for temperature control is responsible for a large part of the total energy budget of the built environment. In recent years there has been an increasing focus on the vulnerabilities of the thermal comfort system; how and why are buildings failing to provide safe and agreeable thermal environments at an affordable price? Achieving comfort in buildings is a complex subject that involves physics, behaviour, physiology, energy conservation, climate change, and of course architecture and urban design. Bringing together the related disciplines in one volume lays strong, multi-disciplinary foundations for new research and design directions for resilient 21st century architecture. This book heralds workable solutions and emerging directions for key fields in building the resilience of households, organisations and populations in a heating world.

Author : Jet Propulsion Laboratory (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technical Report - Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology written by Jet Propulsion Laboratory (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: