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Author & reviewer support during COVID-19
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has raised questions about the ways in which Buildings & Cities operates during this disruptive period and we have decided to continue our activities with increased levels of understanding, support and flexibility.
Buildings
& Cities is
proactively taking measures to support our editors, reviewers and authors - no
matter what individual or collective issues they are facing.
We will assist scholars wishing to publish during
this difficult time.
We fully understand that people face a variety of difficult challenges at the moment and are respectful that some people may not be able to take part in the publishing process at the moment.
We equally understand that others will find
it beneficial to engage with the wider academic community, especially as many
meetings and conferences have been postponed or cancelled. In particular, the
continuation of publishing activities may be crucial for many Early Career
Researchers.
The Editors will do our best to provide additional support, guidance or time in
order to enable those who wish to, to take part in whatever capacity they are
able:
- We will support those who cannot take part for a period of time in whatever ways we can and are appropriate.
- We will understand and respect the inevitable delays that will emerge during this period.
If you have a concern, please contact the editors via the 'Contact us' webpage or by email.
The Editorial Team respect and appreciate all of the extraordinary people we have the opportunity to work with and send you our best wishes as we navigate the coming months.
Latest Peer-Reviewed Journal Content
Moving homes and energy poverty: residents’ concerns, capabilities and responses
M Jalas, J Rinkinen, S Numminen & E Valkealahti
Reference study for biogenic carbon storage in the residential building stock
O Iliescu, I Talvitie, A Amiri & S Junnila
Building space heating and cooling in NDCs 4.0
T P Lützkendorf
Building component reuse as sociomaterial interaction: lessons from precast concrete
J Uusikartano, L Alkki & V Capitani
Validating national reuse indicators from regional demolition data: a Swedish example
F Ericsson, K Mjörnell & U Janson
Climate change risk and decision-making [editorial]
S Foxell & I Cooper
Technologies of reconstruction [editorial]
P Tombesi
Urban form metrics for building occupancy modelling: applications and impacts
D Reiter, M Jehling & R Hecht
Retrofit realism: affordable low-carbon policies for existing homes
N Eyre & R Khosla
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Latest Commentaries
Who is Responsible for Climate Change?
Ian Cooper (Eclipse Research) explores the questions of responsibility raised in the recent Buildings & Cities special issue ‘Climate Change Risk and Decision-Making’. Focusing here on carbon emissions and mitigation, global responses will require grounding in what can work locally. New responsibilities arise for the wide range of built environment decision-makers: clients, professionals and their institutions, central and local governments, product suppliers, financiers, insurers, etc. A framework is needed to manage the complexity of responsibilities especially for variety of actors, the time frames and spatial scales.
Professional Ethics in a Climate Crisis
The climate crisis has progressed into a dangerous phase with tragic consequences often counted in numbers of excess deaths, but also by powerful economic impacts of rising food prices, the increased costs of insurance and lending, costly damage to the built environment. Celia Davies, Director of Impact at the UK’s Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA) and Hugh Ellis, Director of Policy at TCPA, consider the responsibilities of professionals in shaping a built environment which is fit not just for today's climate risks but for the dramatic increase in severe and unpredictable weather which is now locked into our climate systems.