Major European Stressors and Potential of Available Tools for Assessment of Urban and Buildings Resilience

Licia Felicioni, Antonín Lupíšek and Petr Hájek
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Licia Felicioni: University Centre for Energy Efficient Buildings (UCEEB), Czech Technical University, 273 43 Buštěhrad, Czech Republic
Antonín Lupíšek: University Centre for Energy Efficient Buildings (UCEEB), Czech Technical University, 273 43 Buštěhrad, Czech Republic
Petr Hájek: University Centre for Energy Efficient Buildings (UCEEB), Czech Technical University, 273 43 Buštěhrad, Czech Republic

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 18, 1-27

Abstract: Recent data show that there are intensifications of phenomena related to climate change, such as the increasing of heavy rains, more frequent and intense droughts connected with fires, and alterations of the local climatic conditions, including heat islands with consequent impacts on cities, districts, and buildings. Not only are natural hazards stressing Europe but also human-induced events like low-magnitude earthquakes as a direct cause of fracking or mining. This study aimed to investigate the significant stressors and summarize what impact is the most dangerous in each European country. There is a need to secure the operating conditions of urban infrastructures and to preserve a high-quality indoor environment of buildings. The main scope of this paper is to compare selected tools that evaluate the urban and building resilience and to assess their suitability, based on an analysis of natural and human-induced hazards in the European countries. The results represent a contribution to urban and architectural planning practice, and to the consistent implementation of measures to improve the resilience of the built environment by providing guidance as to which assessment tool is most suitable for each country.

Keywords: European threats; building resilience; human-induced hazards; natural hazards; resilience assessment tools; seismicity; urban resilience (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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