Home and Climate ChangeTransforming Societies in the Face of Climate Emergency

Edited By Mohamed Gamal Abdelmonem

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.

Routledge has now advertised it on its website, with a release date of 19th June.

 

 

Table of Contents:

Foreword

Bryan K. Sanderson

1. Introduction: Revisiting the Discourse on Home and Climate Change

Mohamed Gamal Abdelmonem

2. Ethics of Care, Care in the Home, Care of the Common Home

Antonio Argandoña

3. Home, Care and Love: The Possible Starting Point to Overcome the Climate Crisis

Ilaria Malagrinó

4. Thresholds of Connected Living: Understanding Spatial Affordances of Ahmedabad Homes in Response to Climate Change

Jigna Desai

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

Rowena Hill

6. The Effect of People’s Behaviour on Home Energy Consumption and Carbon Emission: Case Studies on Domestic Cooking and Space Heating

Amin Al-Habaibeh, Yining Yu, Sherna Salim and Arijit Sen

7. A Community-Centred Approach for the Sustainability and the One Health agendas: Campus Bio-Medico’ Social Green Masterplan as a Case Study

Marta Bertolaso, Marcella Trombetta, Domenico Mastrolitto and Saverio Berghi

8. Net-Zero Homes as Localities of Households, Neighbourhoods, and Natural Environments

Bridgette Wessels, Ryan Casey and Jennifer Challinor

9. Connected Homes for Older People: Role of Family and Locality in Combating Climate Change

Mohamed Gamal Abdelmonem

10. Educational Schools as Homes: Training Mission, Climate Change Awareness and Architecture

Pablo Campos Calvo-Sotelo

11. Remote Economy and Home-Based Work: Digital Homes Changing Economic and Work-Life Balance

María Jesús Álvarez, Cristina Garrido and Maria Pich-Aguilera

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

María José Monferrer Freire

 

Editor(s) Biography

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).