Health Co-Benefits of Green Building Design Strategies and Community Resilience to Urban Flooding: A Systematic Review of the Evidence

Houghton, Adele; Castillo‐Salgado, Carlos

doi:10.3390/ijerph14121519

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“…The sustainability of building design not only reflects the green environmental protection and energy conservation but should emphasize the fact that it can provide a safe and comfortable place for a long-term living [ 37 ]. Especially in an emergency, a building with the perspective of sustainable safety can ensure all pedestrians to be efficiently evacuated in time [ 38 ].…”

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Stampede Prevention Design of Primary School Buildings in China: A Sustainable Built Environment Perspective

Xie

Song

Liu

et al. 2018

IJERPH

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In China, crowd stampede accidents usually take place within crowded areas in middle and primary schools. The crowd stampede risk is particularly related to the architectural design such as the staircase design, the layout of crowded places, obstacles, etc. Through the investigation of building design in several primary schools, the relationship between the sustainable layout of crowded places (e.g., toilets, canteens, playgrounds, staircases) and the crowd stampede risk of students are introduced via agent-based simulations. In particular, different experimental scenarios are conducted on stairs in the primary buildings. The evacuation processes are recorded by video camera and spatial stepping characteristics (e.g., foot clearance, step length, mass center, the distance between the mass center and ankle, and etc.) are extracted from the video. Dynamic steady ability is investigated by adopting the margin of stability, quantified by the instantaneous difference between the edge of the base of support and extrapolated vertical projection of the mass center. Based on the sustainable built environment principles and historical data of students, this paper focuses on an in-depth analysis of the staircase design aiming at preventing the crowd stampede risk.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Stampede Prevention Design of Primary School Buildings in China: A Sustainable Built Environment Perspective

Xie

Song

Liu

et al. 2018

IJERPH

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“…It is increasingly recognized that the resilience of urban infrastructure requires green infrastructure approaches that can reduce the demands and risks on conventional built infrastructure. This approach has been shown to generate a number of co-benefits (e.g., improved air quality) and to be applicable to a number of climate hazards (e.g., flooding) [63][64][65]. There are formal approaches emerging that enable infrastructure designers to formally leverage ecosystem services.…”

Section: Planning For Urban Infrastructure Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

(Re)emphasizing Urban Infrastructure Resilience via Scoping Review and Content Analysis

Shaker¹,

Rybarczyk²,

Brown³

et al. 2019

Urban Science

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Although the importance of urban infrastructure resilience can be inferred, its terminology remains convoluted within the literature due to a lack of systematic review from a sustainable development planning perspective. This review paper was designed to elucidate connected research themes, scientific popularity, and conceptual boundaries of the term infrastructure resilience in an urban context. Three guiding research questions were asked: What does urban infrastructure resilience really mean? What are the most common research topics connected to urban infrastructure resilience? How can humanity further improve urban infrastructure resilience from a sustainable development planning perspective? To answer these research questions, a two-step literature analysis was adopted consisting of: (i) a scoping review to select relevant publications based on a specific search query; and (ii) a content analysis to reduce and synthesize the scoping review findings further based on the three most applicable publishing outlets. The scoping review reduced articles to 535, while content analysis further condensed it to 84 across three key journals. With North America and Europe leading, the findings corroborated that eight connected subject areas establish the conceptual boundaries of urban infrastructure resilience. The eight related research topics in decreasing abundance were: (1) climate change, (2) floods, (3) disasters, (4) environmental policy, (5) ecosystems, (6) risk assessment, (7) emergency preparedness, and (8) adaptation. In conclusion, these research topics should be pursued when creating urban infrastructure resilience strategies for moving towards sustainability.

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“…There are positive and negative consequences from flood control and also from more extensive and participatory management. The balancing of benefits and costs, regionally, among victims and beneficiaries and over time, is a key challenge in deliberation and action in some ways especially for health risks (Houghton and Castillo-Salgado 2017). Important synergies and co-benefits exist between management areas and policy sectors (EEA 2016).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Some models of benefits from flood control have also omitted health (Pagano et al 2019). The study by Houghton and Castillo-Salgado (2017) on health benefits of green building design and community resilience to flooding constitutes one of the few cases where these aspects have been systematically evaluated.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Human health in systemic adaptation to climate change: insights from flood risk management in a river basin

Assmuth

Lyytimäki

2019

Environ Syst Decis

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Human health risks in dealing with floods in a river basin in SouthWestern Finland are analysed as an example of scientific and practical challenges in systemic adaptation to climate change and in integrated governance of water resources. The analysis is based on case reports and plans, on literature studies and on conceptual models of risks and risk management. Flood risks in the Northern European study area are aggravated by melt-and storm-water runoff, ice jams and coastal flooding. Flood risk assessment is linked with management plans based on EU directives as applied in the case area. National risk management policies and procedures of increasing scope and depth have been devised for climate change, water resources and overall safety, but an integrated approach to health risks is still largely missing. The same is true of surveys of perceived flood risks, and participatory deliberation and collaborative planning procedures for flood risk management in the case area, specifically for adaptive lake regulation. Health impacts, risks and benefits, socioeconomic and systemic risks, and overarching prevention, adaptation and compensation measures are not fully included. We propose a systematic framework for these extensions. Particular attention needs to be given to health risks due to flooding, e.g. from water contamination, moist buildings, mental stress and infrastructure damage and also from management actions. Uncertainties and ambiguities about risks present continuing challenges. It is concluded that health aspects of flooding are complex and need to be better included in assessment and control, to develop more integrated and adaptive systemic risk governance.

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Health Co-Benefits of Green Building Design Strategies and Community Resilience to Urban Flooding: A Systematic Review of the Evidence

Cited by 31 publications

References 96 publications

Stampede Prevention Design of Primary School Buildings in China: A Sustainable Built Environment Perspective

Stampede Prevention Design of Primary School Buildings in China: A Sustainable Built Environment Perspective

(Re)emphasizing Urban Infrastructure Resilience via Scoping Review and Content Analysis

Human health in systemic adaptation to climate change: insights from flood risk management in a river basin

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