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The climate crisis: Why it matters for the built environment

Sayce, Sarah; Wilkinson, Sara; Organ, Samantha

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Sarah Sayce

Sara Wilkinson

Samantha Organ Samantha2.Organ@uwe.ac.uk
Associate Professor in Building Sustainability



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Sarah Sayce
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Sara Wilkinson
Editor

Gillian Armstrong
Editor

Abstract

Buildings have a major influence on the climate through carbon emissions at all stages of their life cycle – construction, operation and deconstruction. The solution calls for the urgent need for more sustainable retrofits to mitigate these impacts and to contribute to reducing impact through lessening waste, reducing building-related water and energy consumption, and adopting a circular economy approach. Despite knowing that action will mitigate climate change, we have collectively chosen at best very limited action. This is not sufficient. Why? The challenge of climate change demands an overarching need for extensive change. What? The knowledge to retrofit already exists but needs a holistic overview. We set out what resilient building retrofits mean for cities, precincts and at the scale of a single building, the issues faced and the changes that can be delivered in retrofit projects.
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Online Publication Date Sep 20, 2022
Publication Date Sep 20, 2022
Deposit Date Sep 18, 2022
Publicly Available Date Mar 21, 2024
Publisher Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
Pages 3-20
Book Title Resilient Building Retrofits
Chapter Number 1
ISBN 9781003023975
DOI https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003023975-2
Keywords climate crisis, climate change, climate
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/9948776
Publisher URL https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.1201/9781003023975-2/climate-crisis-sarah-sayce-sara-wilkinson-samantha-organ
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Contract Date Jun 13, 2022

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This is the author’s accepted manuscript of their chapter ‘The climate crisis: Why it matters for the built environment’ published in the book Sayce, S., Wilkinson, S., & Organ, S. (2022). The climate crisis: Why it matters for the built environment. In S. Sayce, S. Wilkinson, G. Armstrong, & S. Organ (Eds.), Resilient Building Retrofits (3-20). Taylor & Francis (Routledge).
The final published version is available here: https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003023975-2






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