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Energy resilience to climate change of historic urban district in Mediterranean area
The scientific sources of utmost importance in impact evaluation and vulnerability caused by climate changes agree to future exposure of Mediterranean area towards an arid climate and of extreme events as heatwaves. Concerning energy issues, residential building stock represent the main object of strategies because of their responsibility in GHGs emissions as well as in ensuring safety and health for their inhab-itant. For that reason, European and national strategies moved towards the improve-ment of building envelope and changing primary sources in order to reduce climate-altering emissions and mitigate effects in a long-term perspective. In addition, climatologist activities in monitoring and testing external changes define a positive contribute in studying future exposure and necessities, supporting the inter-relations between cli-mate, socio-economic and technologies developments. However, the necessity to reduce impacts of uncontrollable events encouraged studies of local urban features and reactions at the same scale in order to reduce the amplification consequences defined by the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect. Despite they derive from external un-controllable factors, at local scale amplification potentialities of UHI are strictly dependent on built environment and human activities, too. In that sense, several strategies moved towards the identification of best practices in new urban asset and improvement of optical properties in horizontal surfaces (pavements, roofs), supporting and enhancing the adaptability of built urban context and enhancing built market towards cool, reflective and green solutions. In the whole residential built stock in Mediterranean area, buildings in historic urban districts represent an exception in traditional transformation management because of constructional and functional characteristics for specific building typologies and ages can be analysed. Adaptation, transformation and persistence necessities involved in Resilience as the key feature to ensure all them. Borrowing ...
Energy resilience to climate change of historic urban district in Mediterranean area
The scientific sources of utmost importance in impact evaluation and vulnerability caused by climate changes agree to future exposure of Mediterranean area towards an arid climate and of extreme events as heatwaves. Concerning energy issues, residential building stock represent the main object of strategies because of their responsibility in GHGs emissions as well as in ensuring safety and health for their inhab-itant. For that reason, European and national strategies moved towards the improve-ment of building envelope and changing primary sources in order to reduce climate-altering emissions and mitigate effects in a long-term perspective. In addition, climatologist activities in monitoring and testing external changes define a positive contribute in studying future exposure and necessities, supporting the inter-relations between cli-mate, socio-economic and technologies developments. However, the necessity to reduce impacts of uncontrollable events encouraged studies of local urban features and reactions at the same scale in order to reduce the amplification consequences defined by the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect. Despite they derive from external un-controllable factors, at local scale amplification potentialities of UHI are strictly dependent on built environment and human activities, too. In that sense, several strategies moved towards the identification of best practices in new urban asset and improvement of optical properties in horizontal surfaces (pavements, roofs), supporting and enhancing the adaptability of built urban context and enhancing built market towards cool, reflective and green solutions. In the whole residential built stock in Mediterranean area, buildings in historic urban districts represent an exception in traditional transformation management because of constructional and functional characteristics for specific building typologies and ages can be analysed. Adaptation, transformation and persistence necessities involved in Resilience as the key feature to ensure all them. Borrowing ...
Energy resilience to climate change of historic urban district in Mediterranean area
2018-01-01
doi:10.60576/poliba/iris/cantatore-elena_phd2018
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