Dossier hot climates
#13 - Urban planning in cities with hot and dry climates: the case of Cairo
Despite the awareness of the need to focus on sustainable urban development in the 1980s, Egypt faces a lack of convergence (...)
#12 Urban planning and constraints under the hot climate in Brazil
With a significant rural exodus and a territory very sensitive to the effects of global warming, Brazil must reorganize the (...)
#11 Urban planning and development in tropical climates: the example of French Guiana
As the example of French Guiana illustrates, sustainable construction in a warm climate is not only a technical challenge (...)
#7 Development strategy for the "tropical built" sector
With the "BIOREV Tropics" project, Nomadeis, BioBuild Concept and the Laboratoire d'Écologie Urbaine de La Réunion, have (...)
#6 Construction of local building materials sectors: a social as well as an economic challenge
The impact of building materials on climate change is a major challenge for the construction sector, as they are responsible (...)
#4 Building bioclimatic in tropical climate and Reunion Island
Building bioclimatic infrastructures in Reunion Island and, more generally, in the DROMs and COMs (formerly DOM-TOM) requires (...)
#1 Edito - Sustainable construction in hot climates
The ambition of this dossier is to gather a series of testimonies that illustrate, in all their dimensions, the challenges (...)