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Evaluating the Resilience of Sustainable Neighborhoods by Exposing LEED Neighborhoods to Future Risks
This paper examines Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND), a sustainability rating system for neighborhoods, to determine the extent to which its supported actions also contribute to a neighborhood’s specified resilience. A wide range of future shocks and stresses are considered; some of which relate to climate change. A matrix is created in order to test the resilience potential of 68 sustainability actions extracted from LEED-ND against 24 possible future shocks/stresses. Many actions encouraged by LEED-ND contribute to resilience to a number of future shocks and stresses, especially energy shortage, heatwaves, aging population, population increase, and extreme precipitation. However, to some future shocks and stresses, LEED-ND contributes minimal or no resilience (e.g., sewage infrastructure failure). The LEED-ND action that contributes resilience to the greatest number of future shocks/stresses is good connectivity. There are a few conflicts between LEED-ND and resilience goals (e.g., compact development), but they are minimal. It is concluded that LEED-ND does contribute to a neighborhood’s specified resilience, but not comprehensively so or in the most optimal way.
Evaluating the Resilience of Sustainable Neighborhoods by Exposing LEED Neighborhoods to Future Risks
This paper examines Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND), a sustainability rating system for neighborhoods, to determine the extent to which its supported actions also contribute to a neighborhood’s specified resilience. A wide range of future shocks and stresses are considered; some of which relate to climate change. A matrix is created in order to test the resilience potential of 68 sustainability actions extracted from LEED-ND against 24 possible future shocks/stresses. Many actions encouraged by LEED-ND contribute to resilience to a number of future shocks and stresses, especially energy shortage, heatwaves, aging population, population increase, and extreme precipitation. However, to some future shocks and stresses, LEED-ND contributes minimal or no resilience (e.g., sewage infrastructure failure). The LEED-ND action that contributes resilience to the greatest number of future shocks/stresses is good connectivity. There are a few conflicts between LEED-ND and resilience goals (e.g., compact development), but they are minimal. It is concluded that LEED-ND does contribute to a neighborhood’s specified resilience, but not comprehensively so or in the most optimal way.
Evaluating the Resilience of Sustainable Neighborhoods by Exposing LEED Neighborhoods to Future Risks
Uda, Mariko (author) / Kennedy, Christopher (author)
2018-09-08
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