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Chapter
Existing Buildings’ Energy Upgrade: An Economical and Environmentally Sustainable Opportunity
Given the huge amount of energy consumption imputable to existing buildings, and the relatively slow buildings’ substitution in both urban and suburban areas all over the world, building energy upgrade, starti...
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Chapter
Cool Materials for Passive Cooling in Buildings
Cool materials are an acknowledged, environmentally friendly and relatively cost-effective solution that can be easily integrated in the built environment with the threefold aim of reducing building cooling en...
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Chapter
Human Adaptation to Higher Ambient Temperature
The on-going climate change is leading to a progressively warmer world where extreme weather events, including heat waves (HWs), are going to be more frequent and intense. While limiting the anthropogenic cont...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Introduction
As cities grow, they become more significant contributors to climate change while also being vulnerable to its effects, posing risks also for their citizens’ health and well-being. Urgent actions are needed to...