Full 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 homes and neighbourhoods, 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.
Contents
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
