Ackerman

Balslev

Campbell-Lendrum

Chang

Chua

Cole

Correa

Davis

de Munck

Duarte

Emmanuel

Foudazi

Fung

Futcher

Georgescu

Griffiths

Hardin

Hebbert

Heschong

Hitchings

Hung

Indraganti

IPCC

Isaac

Johansson

Kalvelage

Karyono

Kumar

Lemonsu

Lenzuni

Lott

Lucon

Manton

Mills

Nguyen

Parkinson

Perera

Pozas

Rajapaksha

Revi

Rosenzweig

Roth

Rubio-Bellido

Sekhar

Sillmann

Sivak

Stewart

Tank

Thorsson

Velders

Wang

Wilhite

Zivin

Ürge-Vorsatz

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Rohinton Emmanuel

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Performance standard for tropical outdoors: A critique of current impasse and a proposal for way forward

Climate change will bring more heat extremes to the already warm tropical areas in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The resulting surge in cooling demand will only make the thermal discomfort in tropical cities even worse. This paper presents evidence to the approaching air conditioned cooling load deluge and shows why the air conditioned management of cooling load is particularly problematic in the tropics. It then presents the technical, institutional and cultural challenges to passive climate-sensitive design in the tropics and posits three ideas as part of the way forward: reformulation of thermal pleasure in the tropics, linking the ‘in’ and the ‘out’ at neighbourhood scale and provision of adaptive opportunities varied by activity patterns. Research approaches to advance these ideas are also discussed

Emmanuel, Rohinton

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Performance standard for tropical outdoors: a critique of current impasse and a proposal for way forward

https://researchonline.gcu.ac.uk/files/24477900/Performance_standard_for_tropical_outdoors_AAM.pdf

Performance standard for tropical outdoors: a critique of current impasse and a proposal for way forward

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