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- Title
Building low-carbon and disaster-resilient communities: integrating climate mitigation and adaptation into the assessment of self-help housing design.
- Authors
Charoenkit, Sasima; Kumar, S.
- Abstract
Housing is not only one of the major sources of carbon dioxide (CO) emissions, but it has been increasingly vulnerable to climate-induced disasters, particularly those sheltering the urban poor. Both mitigation and adaptation measures are therefore required for the design and construction of low-income housing to encourage low carbon development and improve resilience to disasters. As self-help housing-the common type of housing for the urban poor in developing countries-is usually built by ordinary people with participatory approach, it is crucial to develop a low-carbon and disaster-resilient assessment tool for assisting them in making informed decisions during planning process. The objective of this article is to propose a new approach for developing a low-carbon and disaster-resilient assessment tool for self-help housing (LoDAT-SH) by combining opinions from experts and community residents to assign weights, identify indicators, and establish benchmarks with the aim to develop a simple, relevant, and practical tool for non-expert users like self-help residents. The application of the proposed methodology to a case study of a developing country, Thailand, shows the ability of LoDAT-SH, which contains 45 indicators in the four categories of low carbon development, disaster resilience, community participation, and financial consideration, in enabling self-help residents to assess the performance of their housing design, identify potential measures to create a low-carbon and disaster-resilient housing, and prioritize such actions. To support the creation of a low-carbon and disaster-resilient housing as the mitigation and adaptation strategy for urban development at the global level, the study suggests that the methodology of LoDAT-SH should be replicated to develop a more comprehensive assessment tool applicable for the use in self-help housing design in other developing countries, which will house about 900 million of the urban poor by 2020.
- Subjects
HOUSING &; the environment; DISASTER resilience; CLIMATE change mitigation; SELF-help housing; CARBON dioxide mitigation
- Publication
Mitigation & Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 2017, Vol 22, Issue 5, p695
- ISSN
1381-2386
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11027-015-9694-4