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Climate Change and Building Design
Published in Dejan Mumovic, Mat Santamouris, A Handbook of Sustainable Building Design and Engineering, 2018
Paradoxically, under predicted climate change scenarios some regions of the world may be concerned with increased flood risk while others will be suffering from very dry seasons, water shortages and the risk of soils drying out. Reduced soil moisture levels have impacts on agriculture, flood control and buildings, where subsidence damage will become an increasing problem. Over the past two decades, Europe has seen a marked increase in damage to buildings as a result of soil movements. A new loss model developed by Swiss Re and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) shows that in France alone, economic losses from soil subsidence have risen by over 50% since 1990 (Swiss Re, 2011).
Climate change
Published in Sigrun M. Wagner, Business and Environmental Sustainability, 2020
In order to respond appropriately to climate change, scenarios are used which forecast the change in emissions and increase in temperature and their consequences based on different technological and behavioural options. The scenarios use representative concentration pathways (RCP) which are identified by radiative forcing as well as GHG concentration levels measured in CO2 equivalent (CO2e) and temperature increases (IPCC 2014a), as shown in Figure 5.5 and Table 5.3.
Optimal RCM and spatial interpolation methods for estimating future precipitation in the Republic of Korea
Published in LHB, 2022
Climate change scenarios are climate projections based on scientific evidence for use in the many areas impacted by climate change. Climate forecasts are highly uncertain, however, due to the variability of nature, various greenhouse gas (GHG) emission scenarios, and modelling errors (Cho et al., 2011).