About this Research Topic
The aim is to promote resilient buildings and built environments capable of integrating new sustainable strategies, optimising the use of resources, improving users' quality of life and their environmental ergonomics, and adapting the building stock to climate change throughout its life cycle. Through the different publications, renovation strategies and new products that incorporate sustainable, economically efficient interventions, ensuring return on investment and other benefits should be encouraged to generate a practical and comprehensive transition in all areas of the city.
The editors are delighted to receive numerous research studies addressing a wide range of topics on buildings and built environments for this issue, from multidisciplinary approaches that consider sustainability, resilience, circular economy and climate change adaptation criteria. This special issue is designed for authors to bring together different works that contribute to promoting resilient cities to be inhabited and enjoyed by citizens in their multiple disciplines of influence: technical, constructive, economic, and social, among others.
The type of article is flexible and open, accepting papers on theoretical research or practical applications that apply sustainability criteria, resilience, circular economy and adaptation to climate change; systematic literature reviews of different related research fields; and case studies, critiques and reflections on related policy formulation.
Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Multi-scale assessment models for diagnosing the building stock and its built environment.
- Intervention products and strategies that promote environmentally and socio-economically efficient building and ensure the adaptation of the built environment to climate change.
- Multidisciplinary studies that address management and decision-making from different environmental and socio-economic contexts.
- Use the language of Level(s) indicators for incorporating sustainability criteria in buildings.
- Application of Circular Economy principles to the building and its built environment.
- Studies on environmental psychology, quality of life and environmental ergonomics of the inhabitant.
We look forward to receiving your contributions with enthusiasm and the certainty that this special issue will bring significant impact and scientific dissemination.
Keywords: Resilience, climate change, circular economy, Buildings, Built Environment
Important Note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.