TY  - GEN
AU  - Synnefa,Afroditi
AU  - Haddad,Shamila
AU  - Rajagopalan,Priya
AU  - Santamouris,Matthaios
AU  - Synnefa,Afroditi
AU  - Haddad,Shamila
AU  - Rajagopalan,Priya
AU  - Santamouris,Matthaios
TI  - Survivability under Overheating : The impact of Regional and Global Climate Change on Vulnerable and Low Income Population
SN  - books978-3-03943-870-9
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Basel, Switzerland
PB  - MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
KW  - Research & information: general
KW  - bicssc
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
N1  - Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/3246
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/69442
ER  -