Urban and Buildings Regeneration Strategy to Climatic Change Mitigation, Energy, and Social Poverty after a World Health and Economic Global Crisis

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climatic Change ◽  
World Health ◽  
Regeneration Strategy ◽  
Global Crisis ◽  
Change Mitigation

scholarly journals Special Issue “Urban and Buildings Regeneration Strategy to Climatic Change Mitigation, Energy, and Social Poverty after a World Health and Economic Global Crisis”

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (21) ◽  
pp. 11850
Author(s):  
Pilar Mercader-Moyano ◽  
Antonio Serrano-Jiménez
Keyword(s):  
Climatic Change ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Aging Process ◽  
World Health ◽  
Existing Buildings ◽  
Regeneration Strategy ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Global Crisis ◽  
Change Mitigation

Throughout the 21st century, urban reports demand solutions to the obsolescence and aging process suffered by the existing buildings, due to the growth and expansion of cities that took place in the second half of the 20th century [...]

scholarly journals Crop-Cattle Integrated Farming System: An Alternative of Climatic Change Mitigation

2015 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-103
Author(s):  
Munandar Munandar ◽  
F Gustiar ◽  
Yakup Yakup ◽  
R Hayati ◽  
A I Munawar
Keyword(s):  
Climatic Change ◽  
Farming System ◽  
Integrated Farming ◽  
Change Mitigation

scholarly journals Decomposing TIAM-MACRO to Assess Climatic Change Mitigation

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 571-581 ◽  
Author(s):  
Socrates Kypreos ◽  
Antti Lehtila
Keyword(s):  
Climatic Change ◽  
Change Mitigation

Environmental Crisis and Political Revolutions

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Sťahel
Keyword(s):  
Climatic Change ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Late Capitalism ◽  
Global Crisis ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
Legitimation Crisis ◽  
Political Unrest ◽  
Regional Perspective

The chapter argues for a complex inter-regional perspective on the crises of the last decade. In this context, the author revisits Habermas’s theory of crisis, developed in the 1970s primarily in connection with the problem of legitimation crisis in late capitalism, but in principle capable of accounting for a broader spectrum of crisis phenomena. The chapter stresses that the ecological background to political unrest – climatic change, overexploitation of resources, the threat of overpopulation – is very important. This specific constellation interacts with more global trends. It does not seem far-fetched to speak of a global crisis threatening the vey identity of advanced industrial civilisation; the key problem is an escalating conflict between the imperative of growth (pursued across the board from finance to technology) and the imperative of sustainability.

scholarly journals Forum: COVID-19 Dispatches

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-115
Author(s):  
Li Lu ◽  
Srinivas Lankala ◽  
Yuan Gong ◽  
Xuefeng Feng ◽  
Briankle G. Chang
Keyword(s):  
Health Problem ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
World Health ◽  
Global Crisis ◽  
The World ◽  
A Site ◽  
Death Count

COVID-19 pandemic is the first truly global crisis in the digital age. With death count worldwide reaching 586,000 merely 7 months after its first outbreak in China in late December 2019 and 13.6 million cases reported in 188 countries and territories as of July 2020, this ongoing pandemic has spread far beyond domain of world health problem to become an unprecedented challenge facing humanity at every level. In addition to causing social and economic disruptions on a scale unseen before, it has turned the world into a site of biopolitical agon where science and reason are forced to betray their impotence against cultish thinking in the planetary endgame depicted in so many dystopian science fictions. It is in this context that this forum offers a set of modest reflections on the current impacts incurred by the COVID-19 virus. Blending ethnographic observations with theory-driven reflections, the five authors address issues made manifest by the crisis across different regions, while keeping their sight on the sociopolitical problems plaguing our life both individually and collectively. Taken together, they provide a grounded documentary for the archive that the COVID-19 virus is making us to construct.

Ancient water management techniques to counteract drought and desertification in the Mediterranean

2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 495-503
Author(s):  
Pietro Laureano
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Climatic Change ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Water Scarcity ◽  
Climatic Variability ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Global Crisis ◽  
History Of ◽  
Management Techniques ◽  
First Time

People always have had to confront themselves with the unforeseeable behaviour of the environment and climatic variability. However, for the first time in the history of our planet, climatic change is today caused by human activity. This situation of global crisis is caused by a series of factors that make of the present emergency a new scenario, exposing entire areas of the planet to the risk of lack of water and desertification. However, desert and desertification are two different things. The desert is characterised by a precise ecological balance established in the course of time by specific climatic conditions. These precise conditions have generated knowledge capable of facing adversities with appropriate techniques for capturing and distributing water, for preserving soil, for recycling and for the economical use of energy. The paper analyse the different solutions adopted in ancient periods in order to cope with water scarcity. In particular the study compares the Neolithic experiences in the Puglia Region and in the Sassi di Matera (Italy) with similar structures in the rest of Mediterranean. These traditional solutions are today proposed in a new innovative form to cope with environmental crises.

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