Building Simulation - Call for Papers: Special Issue on Towards Climate-Responsive Urban Microclimate Design: Resilience and Adaptation Strategies
Dear Colleagues,
Climate change is having an escalating impact on cities. Global warming and urban heat islands (UHI) continuously increase the burden on creating comfortable outdoor environments and threaten the health of residents. It is the objective of this special issue to examine the latest advances in methodologies for achieving climate-responsive urban microclimate designs in order to mitigate the effects of climate change and increase outdoor usage.
In this context, the present special issue contributes to this goal by inviting original research contributions and review articles that address the challenges and opportunities in designing urban microclimates that can effectively respond to a changing climate. Specific topics include, but are not limited to the followings:
• Development of climate-responsive design strategies for improving pedestrian's dynamic thermal comfort, creating healthy and comfortable urban microclimate, or mitigating the urban heat island effects;
• Social, cultural, and behavioral dimensions of creating comfortable and healthy microclimate;
• Coupled effects of microclimate, visual, and acoustic environments in urban open spaces;
• Coupled or multi-scale simulation approach that facilitates climate-responsive urban climate;
• Approaches or modeling tools for supporting the selection of design strategies and assisting microclimate design (e.g. fast urban climate prediction and data-driven approaches etc.);
• Innovative materials and construction techniques for resilient open spaces.
Papers submitted for this special issue are subject to a rigorous peer review procedure before being rapidly and widely disseminated. Upon its acceptance, the paper will go into production immediately. It will be published in the latest regular issue and presented on the specific Topical Collection webpage simultaneously. In regular issues, Topical Collection articles will be clearly marked.
We sincerely invite you to submit your original work to this special issue and are looking forward to sharing your outstanding research outcomes with peers around the world.
Paper submissions: When preparing your manuscript, please follow the Instructions for Authors of Building Simulation, which can be downloaded from the journal website (https://www.springer.com/journal/12273 (this opens in a new tab)).
Submit your paper online at https: (this opens in a new tab)//www.editorialmanager.com/buil (this opens in a new tab) and mark “Towards Climate-Responsive Urban Microclimate Design: Resilience and Adaptation Strategies” in your manuscript.
Submission deadline: December 31, 2024
Co-guest Editors | Editorial Office |
Yongxin Xie, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China | www.springer.com/journal/12273 (this opens in a new tab) |