1. LCA environmental impacts of Europe’s housing stock and prevention scenarios
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Lavagna, Monica and Sala, Serenella
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Health (social science) ,Architecture2300 Environmental Science (all) ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Europe ,Housing ,LCA benchmark ,Life Cycle Assessment ,Representative models ,Building and Construction ,3304 ,010501 environmental sciences ,01 natural sciences ,lcsh:TH1-9745 ,lcsh:Architecture ,housing ,lcsh:NA1-9428 ,lcsh:Building construction ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences - Abstract
Resilience is defined as the capacity of a system to cope with impacts by minimising their effects (through adaptation and mitigation). In practice, upstream measures on the causes, in terms of reducing the emissions or using resource more efficiently, should constitute the main action strategy for reducing the environmental impacts. The article describes the results of a research aiming at quantifing the average environmental impacts associated with the current housing stock in Europe through the construction of statistically-based representative models and the application of the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) method. Knowledge of the characteristics and the environmental performances of the building stock – particularly the residential building stock – is of fundamental importance to establish effective policies and priority actions for the prevention of impacts and the strengthening of the resilience., TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 15 (2018): Architectural resilience
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- 2018
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