scholarly journals Associations between Green Building Design Strategies and Community Health Resilience to Extreme Heat Events: A Systematic Review of the Evidence

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 663 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adele Houghton ◽  
Carlos Castillo-Salgado
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Extreme Heat ◽  
Flow Diagram ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Green Building Design ◽  
Extreme Heat Events ◽  
Heat Events

This project examined evidence linking green building design strategies with the potential to enhance community resilience to extreme heat events. Following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) method for a systematic review, it assessed the strength of the evidence supporting the potential for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) credit requirements to reduce the adverse effects of extreme heat events and/or enhance a building’s passive survivability (i.e., the ability to continue to function during utility outages) during those events. The PRISMA Flow Diagram resulted in the selection of 12 LEED for New Construction (LEED NC) credits for inclusion in the review. Following a preliminary scan of evidence supporting public health co-benefits of the LEED for Neighborhood Development rating system, queries were submitted in PubMed using National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings Terms. Queries identified links between LEED credit requirements and risk of exposure to extreme heat, environmental determinants of health, co-benefits to public health outcomes, and co-benefits to built environment outcomes. Public health co-benefits included reducing the risk of vulnerability to heat stress and reducing heat-related morbidity and mortality. The results lay the groundwork for collaboration across the public health, civil society, climate change, and green building sectors.

scholarly journals Can Green Building Promote Pro-Environmental Behaviours? The Psychological Model and Design Strategy

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (18) ◽  
pp. 7714 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaohuan Xie ◽  
Shiyu Qin ◽  
Zhonghua Gou ◽  
Ming Yi
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Green Buildings ◽  
Walking Distance ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Resource Saving ◽  
Green Building Design ◽  
Personal Norms ◽  
Environmental Behaviours

A green building has a long lasting benefit through cultivating the occupants’ energy and resource-saving behaviours. To understand how green buildings can cultivate occupants’ pro-environment behaviours, the research applied the value–belief–norm model to investigate 17 pro-environmental behaviours which are related to a variety of green building design strategies. Two green and two non-green certified office buildings in the city of Shenzhen in China were surveyed, based on which structural equation modelling was established to confirm the relationship between personal values, environmental beliefs and norms that lead to pro-environment behaviours. Green and non-green building occupants showed significant differences in altruistic values, environmental awareness, personal norms, and pro-environmental behaviours. Green building users had more frequent pro-environmental behaviours than those in non-green buildings. The strategies that require fewer additional efforts were more likely to be adopted as pro-environmental behaviours, such as meeting daily needs within walking distance and adjusting sunshades, while the strategies that need extra physical efforts (taking stairs) or knowledge (garbage sorting) were less likely to be adopted as pro-environmental behaviours. This study pointed out important intervention opportunities and discussed the possible design implications for green building guidelines and programmes to cultivate green occupants and their corresponding pro-environmental behaviours.

A Research on the Design Strategy Suitable for Local Green Building Design in China – A Comparative and Empirical Study on GBES and LEED-NC2009

2014 ◽  
Vol 919-921 ◽  
pp. 1685-1689
Author(s):  
Hao Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Design Strategy ◽  
Green Buildings ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Evaluation Standards ◽  
Evaluation Standard ◽  
Research On Evaluation ◽  
Green Building Design

Green building evaluation standards provide references for green building design. This paper did comparative and empirical research on evaluation points and design strategies of Chinese Green Building Evaluation Standard and American LEED-NC 2009, and analyzed the differences between their orientation and applicability. The conclusion shows that the strategy of GBES is more suitable for local green buildings in China.

Analysis of Design Strategy of Regional Green Architecture

2013 ◽  
Vol 663 ◽  
pp. 97-102
Author(s):  
Ying Pan ◽  
Xiao Feng Zhao ◽  
Zhan Chang Yang
Keyword(s):  
Energy Use ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Regional Culture ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Green Building Design ◽  
Green Architecture ◽  
Traditional Construction ◽  
Earthwork Volume ◽  
Natural Climate

For developing regional green building, it is very important to absorb the traditional architectural conception of energy conservation. Based on this, this article discusses a series of regional green building design strategies focusing on four aspects. First is responding to regional material, includes making use of local materials, modern renewal of traditional material, reuse of waste materials. Second is responding to regional natural climate, includes “closed insulation + solar energy use”, "ventilation + sunshade", "active ventilation + shade + activities insulation" and active utilization strategy. Third is responding to terrain elements, includes minimum of terrain environment damage and reduction of earthwork volume. Last is responding to regional culture, including expression of traditional materials, restructuring of traditional construction, modern interpretation of traditional regional.

Extreme Heat Events and Public Health

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maryam Karimi ◽  
Rouzbeh Nazari ◽  
Samain Sabrin
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Extreme Heat ◽  
Extreme Heat Events ◽  
Heat Events

HAPPI-Health: The Paris Agreement avoids substantial extreme heat-related mortality

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eunice Lo ◽  
Dann Mitchell ◽  
Antonio Gasparrini ◽  
Ana Vicedo-Cabrera
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Paris Agreement ◽  
Extreme Heat ◽  
Health Impacts ◽  
Large Ensemble ◽  
Extreme Heat Events ◽  
Warming Climate ◽  
Global Mean ◽  
Heat Events ◽  
Related Mortality

<p>Extreme heat is associated with increased risks of human mortality. In a warming climate, extreme heat events are projected to intensify and become more frequent, potentially adversely affecting human health. The Paris Agreement aims at limiting global mean temperature rise this century to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels, but mitigation ambition as established in nations’ initial Nationally Determined Contributions still implies ~3°C warming. Quantifying the differences in extreme heat-related mortality between 1.5, 2 and 3°C warming is essential to understanding the public health impacts of climate policies and how societies may adapt to a warming climate.</p><p>In this talk, I will show a new approach to projecting extreme heat-related mortality using the Half a degree Additional warming, Prognosis and Projected Impacts (HAPPI) large ensemble and health models. The large ensemble of HAPPI simulations of the 1.5, 2 and 3°C warmer worlds allows extreme heat events and their health impacts in these worlds to be examined, rather than the mean climates. Using published case studies of the United States and Europe; I will demonstrate that limiting global mean warming from 3°C to 2°C or 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels could reduce heat-related mortality associated with extreme heat events, with the 1.5°C limit being substantially more beneficial to public health than 2°C. In addition to climate change, I will discuss the roles of urbanisation, population changes and adaptation in future extreme heat exposure and heat-related mortality.</p>

scholarly journals Green Building Design Strategies for Multiplex Housing

KIEAE Journal ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 21-30
Author(s):  
Won Ho Park ◽  
Yong Han Ahn ◽  
Young-Oh Choi
Keyword(s):  
Green Building ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Green Building Design

scholarly journals Organizing the institutional Public Health response to heat under climate change: A scoping review

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (Supplement_4) ◽  
Author(s):  
M Boeckmann ◽  
G Sanchez Martinez ◽  
V Kendrovski
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Climate Change ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Extreme Heat ◽  
Public Health Response ◽  
The Public ◽  
Extreme Heat Events ◽  
Health Action ◽  
Heat Events

Abstract Background Extreme heat events are a major health risk, and their intensity and frequency are expected to increase under climate change. Heat health action plans (HHAP) aim to prevent adverse health effects through measures such as warning systems or communication campaigns. This scoping review asked whether the peer-reviewed Public Health literature suggests evidence for good practice governance of HHAP. Methods Databases PubMed and Web of Science were searched using search string combinations of heat, policy, warning system, and related terms. Data was extracted into a pre-defined extraction table based on theory-driven variables related to responsibilities, processes of stakeholder involvement, evaluation and whether good practice advice was provided. Findings were narratively synthesized and gaps in the current knowledge evaluated from a normative standpoint. Results Searches resulted in 6681 hits. After title, abstract and full text screening, 20 articles were assessed, 11 from Europe and 9 from other regions. Findings on structure of governance revealed that the Ministry of Health or Ministry for the Environment leads the development of an adaptation plan or HHAP guidance, while locally Departments of Health most often lead coordination of actions. Interagency cooperation was reported as essential, while in the majority of included studies the public are perceived as recipients of advice and warnings rather than as active stakeholders. Tailoring national guidance to local contexts as well as raising awareness of the plan not only among the public but also among all levels of management was one suggested good practice. Conclusions Few articles explicitly examine the organization of HHAP and no conclusions about whether a specific approach is superior can be drawn from these studies. To adequately protect human health from extreme heat events, an assessment of whether current governance structures are able to provide effective heat health action could be useful. Key messages The peer-reviewed literature does not provide information on which type of HHAP governance is superior. In the absence of a gold standard, it should be assessed what stakeholders and discourses are absent from HHAP governance to ensure vulnerable groups are adequately addressed by HHAP.

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