Home and Climate Change
Transforming Societies in the Face of Climate Emergency
Will be published approx. on 19. June 2026
216 pages
978-1-040-80776-7 (ISBN)
Description
This book highlights the role of the home as a central social unit of resilience in the face of climate change and sustainable living in contemporary cities.
It examines how climate change affects households, how we can curb its impact, and how policy, planning, architecture and economy can be re-envisioned to support the home within the framework of national and international policy circles. A multidisciplinary inquiry into how families and institutions can generate a sustainable home within an ecosystem of net-zero neighbourhoods and cities, Home and Climate Change investigates how patterns of living, learning and consumption could indicate a far more significant and sustainable impact on both the family and its carbon footprint in the long term.
Broadly covering areas of philosophy, housing, ageing, work/life balance, community participation, as well as educational institutions, this book is an essential reading for researchers, professionals and policymakers at the interaction of climate change policies, strategies and innovation in local domestic environments.
It examines how climate change affects households, how we can curb its impact, and how policy, planning, architecture and economy can be re-envisioned to support the home within the framework of national and international policy circles. A multidisciplinary inquiry into how families and institutions can generate a sustainable home within an ecosystem of net-zero neighbourhoods and cities, Home and Climate Change investigates how patterns of living, learning and consumption could indicate a far more significant and sustainable impact on both the family and its carbon footprint in the long term.
Broadly covering areas of philosophy, housing, ageing, work/life balance, community participation, as well as educational institutions, this book is an essential reading for researchers, professionals and policymakers at the interaction of climate change policies, strategies and innovation in local domestic environments.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Illustrations
2 Tables, black and white; 7 Line drawings, black and white; 34 Halftones, black and white; 41 Illustrations, black and white
File size
35,83 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-040-80776-7 (9781040807767)
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Mohamed Gamal Abdelmonem
Home and Climate Change
Transforming Societies in the Face of Climate Emergency
Book
approx. 06/2026
1st Edition
Routledge
€192.50
Not yet published
Person
Mohamed Gamal Abdelmonem is a Professor and Chair of Architecture at the University of York. He is an architectural and urban historian and has written widely on everyday homes, architectural and urban heritage, urban justice and climate change, socio-spatial transformation, and virtual heritage in contemporary cities. He is a Routledge featured author, with recent books including Peripheries - Edge Conditions in Architecture (2013), Architecture of Home in Cairo (2016), Architecture, Space and Memory of Resurrection in NI (2019) and People, Care and Work in the Home (2020).
Content
1. Introduction: Revisiting the Discourse on Home and Climate Change; 2. Ethics of Care, Care in the Home, Care of the Common Home; 3. Home, Care and Love: The Possible Starting Point to Overcome the Climate Crisis; 4. Thresholds of Connected Living: Understanding Spatial Affordances of Ahmedabad Homes in Response to Climate Change; 5. Reaching Beyond Mitigation and Adaptation: Using Resilience Structures and Psychological Theory to Plan and Manage the Impacts of a Changing Climate in our Homes and Communities; 6. The Effect of People's Behaviour on Home Energy Consumption and Carbon Emission: Case Studies on Domestic Cooking and Space Heating; 7. A Community-Centred Approach for the Sustainability and the One Health agendas: Campus Bio-Medico' Social Green Masterplan as a Case Study; 8. Net-Zero Homes as Localities of Households, Neighbourhoods, and Natural Environments; 9. Connected Homes for Older People: Role of Family and Locality in Combating Climate Change; 10. Educational Schools as Homes: Training Mission, Climate Change Awareness and Architecture; 11. Remote Economy and Home-Based Work: Digital Homes Changing Economic and Work-Life Balance; 12. Towards a Sustainable and Home-Based Economy: The Changing Landscape of Work-Life Balance and the Societal and Environmental Impact of Working from Home as a Business Model
