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.
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.
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 Peoples 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
Mohamed Gamal Abdelmonem is a Professor and Chair in 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 & 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).
