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‘Stakeholder perceptions’ of the impacts of climatic features on residents and residences: a UK study
Onus, Ehis Lawrence
Onus, Ehis Lawrence
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2024-06-30
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Liveable housing environments face the menace of global climate change. Built infrastructure (including buildings and houses) continuously experiences significant impacts that are exacerbated by natural variability in the climate. Our study examined how climate change impacts the resilience of residential buildings, increases maintenance frequency, and the wellbeing and comfort of residents in UK residential buildings. This study used deductive reasoning and an empirical epistemological methodology as the basis of primary data collection via a questionnaire survey. The instrument was designed to gather data on the frequency of maintenance and the wellbeing of residents and their perceptions regarding the impacts of climate change. Through regression analysis of the data, the findings showed a significant relationship between climate change and the wellbeing of the occupants of UK residential buildings. Also, physical wellbeing and social wellbeing are more important to the occupants than their mental wellbeing. The cost of maintenance of residential buildings in the UK has an upward trajectory due to the continuously reducing resilience of building fabrics caused by the impacts of climate change; for instance, a recent increase in rainfall/storms resulted in unprecedented flooding, which damaged the fabrics of some UK residential buildings.
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Onus EL, Chinyio E, Daniel EI. (2024) ‘Stakeholder Perceptions’ of the Impacts of Climatic Features on Residents and Residences: A UK Study. Atmosphere, 15(7):791. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos15070791
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© 2024 The Authors. Published by MDPI. This is an open access article available under a Creative Commons licence. The published version can be accessed at the following link on the publisher’s website: https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos15070791
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2073-4433
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Funding for this research was provided by the University of Wolverhampton City Campus South, Wulfruna Street Wolverhampton under award CHE-115.694.943.