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Climate Change and Architecture: The Link Overlooked
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: Received: 13 February 2024 / Approved: 15 February 2024 / Online: 16 February 2024 (03:59:18 CET)
How to cite: Majumder, R. Climate Change and Architecture: The Link Overlooked. Preprints 2024, 2024020859. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.0859.v1 Majumder, R. Climate Change and Architecture: The Link Overlooked. Preprints 2024, 2024020859. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.0859.v1
Abstract
Every year since the last fifty years, the world is waking up to higher and higher average temperature of the earth. Initially it was thought that this trend is a part of cyclical warming and cooling of the earth and nothing to be much worried about. However, with weather conditions become erratic and unusual over a large swath of the planet more and more frequently and regularly, scientists started to speak of Climate Change and people started to listen. In this paper we briefly discuss the link between global warming, climate change and current policies in the developing world to drive home the urgent need for alternative thinking. We briefly discuss the theoretical link between economic development and greenhouse gas emission and lay the micro foundation of the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) before providing some evidence of global climate change and why this is a matter of concern for social scientists. Then we explore two avenues through which human activities are aggravating the situation especially in developing countries – the role of business architecture and the role of built architecture. We argue that these twin architecture are aggravating global warming by moving away from sustainable development policies.
Keywords
Climate Change; Sustainable Development; EKC; Plastic Pollution; Architecture
Subject
Environmental and Earth Sciences, Sustainable Science and Technology
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