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Chapter 3
The Challenge of a Changing Environment
Abstract Climate change is one of the biggest challenges of our time. The impacts from a changing
climate will affect both built environments and the natural world, requiring a new holistic approach to
adaptation and the establishment ofc All decisions relating to the built environment, future planning
of our cities, assessments of environmental impacts, identifying risks, setting standards and codes, are
made based on data and knowledge of the past. The future will be very different and the challenges
we face in a changing environment, from the degrading of ecosystems to a drastic change in the climate, will force us to consider a new knowledge system. Resilience comes from having the capacity
to mitigate and diminish impacts or to adapt to change. It signifies the capacity of a system to absorb
disturbances and surprises, achieving a state of dynamic equilibrium, that enables systems to grow and
evolve while keeping their coherence. In the face of a rapid changing climate, this is indeed a complex, magnitude in scale, global issue. Due to the complexity of climate change and its related impacts,
in this chapter we explore impacts and issues that will assist in framing the overall narrative in relation how we need to consider the application of fundamental patterns as part of the regenerativeadaptive pattern language approach, to adapt to a challenging and changing environment. The chapter
concludes with the fundamental pattern Climate Change Co-Adaptation [3], informing us that
adaptation practice needs to include both humans and nature.
Keywords Adaptation · Climte change · Regenerative- adaptive · Pattern language · Co-adaptation ·
Resilience · Built environment · Natural environment · Ecology
Upward links:
… undoubtedly it is recognised globally that we need to strive for more sustainable actions in our day-to-day
lives as a society, and that we need to improve on the current status quo and adopt a new Sustainable
Worldview [2]. However, various attempts for sustainable development are overturned due to the unforeseen
impacts of a changing environment. This pattern, Climate Change Co- Adaptation [3], helps us to identify
the key issues of a changing climate, its impacts on the built and natural environment, and what we need to consider to be able to adapt to these changes.
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
P. B. Roös, Regenerative-Adaptive Design for Sustainable Development, Sustainable Development
Goals Series, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53234-5_3
Chapter 3
The Challenge of a Changing Environment
Abstract Climate change is one of the biggest challenges of our time. The impacts from a changing
climate will affect both built environments and the natural world, requiring a new holistic approach to
adaptation and the establishment ofc All decisions relating to the built environment, future planning
of our cities, assessments of environmental impacts, identifying risks, setting standards and codes, are
made based on data and knowledge of the past. The future will be very different and the challenges
we face in a changing environment, from the degrading of ecosystems to a drastic change in the climate, will force us to consider a new knowledge system. Resilience comes from having the capacity
to mitigate and diminish impacts or to adapt to change. It signifies the capacity of a system to absorb
disturbances and surprises, achieving a state of dynamic equilibrium, that enables systems to grow and
evolve while keeping their coherence. In the face of a rapid changing climate, this is indeed a complex, magnitude in scale, global issue. Due to the complexity of climate change and its related impacts,
in this chapter we explore impacts and issues that will assist in framing the overall narrative in relation how we need to consider the application of fundamental patterns as part of the regenerativeadaptive pattern language approach, to adapt to a challenging and changing environment. The chapter
concludes with the fundamental pattern Climate Change Co-Adaptation [3], informing us that
adaptation practice needs to include both humans and nature.
Keywords Adaptation · Climte change · Regenerative- adaptive · Pattern language · Co-adaptation ·
Resilience · Built environment · Natural environment · Ecology
Upward links:
… undoubtedly it is recognised globally that we need to strive for more sustainable actions in our day-to-day
lives as a society, and that we need to improve on the current status quo and adopt a new Sustainable
Worldview [2]. However, various attempts for sustainable development are overturned due to the unforeseen
impacts of a changing environment. This pattern, Climate Change Co- Adaptation [3], helps us to identify
the key issues of a changing climate, its impacts on the built and natural environment, and what we need to consider to be able to adapt to these changes.