Climate change and the built environment - a systematic review
Climate change and the built environment - a systematic review
Recent intergovernmental panel on climate change reports have once again emphasised the effective measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the importance of the built environment. Historically, passive and active solutions are known for their potential to make the built environment more environmentally friendly. Recently, a significant number of studies covered the effectiveness of such solutions under distinct current and different future climate and emission predictions. Through the PRISMA framework, this paper presents a comprehensive state-of-the-art review of such studies within the last 10 years (2013–2023) to understand their impact, their tangible applications, and their empirical evidence. Local ecosystems, weather patterns, geographical and cultural challenges dictate the solutions for a warmer future. Among the solutions, as expected, passive solutions remain most effective even though a combination with active ones is necessary regardless of the context. The review in this paper is expandable beyond the effective reported solutions and it highlights the most effective solutions under different climate zones.
Active strategies, Built environment, Climate change, Passive strategies
549-590
Tajuddeen, Ibrahim
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Sajjadian, Seyed Masoud
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1 January 2026
Tajuddeen, Ibrahim
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Sajjadian, Seyed Masoud
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Tajuddeen, Ibrahim and Sajjadian, Seyed Masoud
(2026)
Climate change and the built environment - a systematic review.
Environment, Development and Sustainability, 28 (1), .
(doi:10.1007/s10668-024-04962-2).
Abstract
Recent intergovernmental panel on climate change reports have once again emphasised the effective measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the importance of the built environment. Historically, passive and active solutions are known for their potential to make the built environment more environmentally friendly. Recently, a significant number of studies covered the effectiveness of such solutions under distinct current and different future climate and emission predictions. Through the PRISMA framework, this paper presents a comprehensive state-of-the-art review of such studies within the last 10 years (2013–2023) to understand their impact, their tangible applications, and their empirical evidence. Local ecosystems, weather patterns, geographical and cultural challenges dictate the solutions for a warmer future. Among the solutions, as expected, passive solutions remain most effective even though a combination with active ones is necessary regardless of the context. The review in this paper is expandable beyond the effective reported solutions and it highlights the most effective solutions under different climate zones.
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Accepted/In Press date: 21 April 2024
Published date: 1 January 2026
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Active strategies, Built environment, Climate change, Passive strategies
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/511038
ISSN: 1387-585X
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