TY - GEN
T1 - Exploring the Significance of Resilience Qualities in the Context of the Middle East Built Environment
AU - Al-Humaiqani, Mohammed M.
AU - Al-Ghamdi, Sami G.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd 2023.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Despite applying green urban development concepts and technologies to uphold legacies, the resilience of the urban built environment (UBE) remains a significant challenge. A robust system with high flexibility to climate change can withstand different climate variations with the lowest possible degradation of its performance indicators. An urban system could be designed to be responsive, absorptive, and adaptive to the potential shocks and stresses and utilized to meet particular needs that help rapidly restore the system’s functionality. This paper reviews the major impacts of climate change and investigates the resilience challenges to the cities in the Middle East (ME) from the perspective of resilience qualities. The findings of this study indicate that many cities in the ME are projected to suffer from severe climate change impacts. However, there is an argument that there is still room to develop the necessary risk management plans and invest in building resilient infrastructure and utilities. Considering the resilience qualities and strategies of the built environment components and urban infrastructure can result in robust, flexible, redundant, resourceful, inclusive, and integrated systems. The paper identifies directions of needed work to improve the adaptation of the built environment to climate change.
AB - Despite applying green urban development concepts and technologies to uphold legacies, the resilience of the urban built environment (UBE) remains a significant challenge. A robust system with high flexibility to climate change can withstand different climate variations with the lowest possible degradation of its performance indicators. An urban system could be designed to be responsive, absorptive, and adaptive to the potential shocks and stresses and utilized to meet particular needs that help rapidly restore the system’s functionality. This paper reviews the major impacts of climate change and investigates the resilience challenges to the cities in the Middle East (ME) from the perspective of resilience qualities. The findings of this study indicate that many cities in the ME are projected to suffer from severe climate change impacts. However, there is an argument that there is still room to develop the necessary risk management plans and invest in building resilient infrastructure and utilities. Considering the resilience qualities and strategies of the built environment components and urban infrastructure can result in robust, flexible, redundant, resourceful, inclusive, and integrated systems. The paper identifies directions of needed work to improve the adaptation of the built environment to climate change.
KW - Climate change impacts
KW - Middle east
KW - Resilience qualities
KW - Urban built environment
KW - Urban resilience
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85177856488&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-981-99-4101-8_25
DO - 10.1007/978-981-99-4101-8_25
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85177856488
SN - 9789819941001
T3 - Environmental Science and Engineering
SP - 319
EP - 330
BT - Environment and Sustainable Development - Proceedings of the 2022 7th Asia Conference on Environment and Sustainable Development
A2 - Ujikawa, Keiji
A2 - Ishiwatari, Mikio
A2 - Hullebusch, Eric van
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 7th Asia Conference on Environment and Sustainable Development, ACESD 2022
Y2 - 4 November 2022 through 6 November 2022
ER -
