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Climate action requires intervention in the areas of—transition from fossil fuel-based to renewable energy-based economies; adaptive processes; resilience; ecosystem services; and social and environmental justice. Climate risks are unequally distributed at different scales: international, regional, intranational within individual countries, and intraurban within cities. The susceptibility of different demographic groups to climate risk and hazards is based on historic socioeconomic inequities that are further exacerbated due to climate change. Climate inequities are deeply embedded within the histories of colonialism and neocolonialism.
The tropics, which are a construct of colonial discourses, not only share inequitable burdens of climate change, but a history of colonialism. Consequently, the tropical world needs climate action that is embedded within Climate Justice. Therefore, areas of climate action, require a just transition from fossil fuel-based to renewable energy-based economies; just adaptive processes; just resilience measures; and just ecosystem services. These areas of intervention require transdisciplinary expertise.
The 8th INTA conference brought together academics, activists, artists, and professionals to engage in a dialogue on Climate Justice and Resilience. Through this meeting, participants engaged humanities, social sciences, and applied technology fields to foster a dialogue between built-environment disciplines; and humanities, social sciences, and applied technology fields to address how resilience played a key role in Climate Justice.
The conference investigated how interdisciplinary built-environment studies, including but not limited to—Architecture, Architectural History, Landscape Architecture, Landscape History, Construction Management, Engineering, History of Technology, Urban Planning, Urban History, Urban Sociology, Urban Public Health, Justice Studies, Environmental Studies, Environmental History, Disaster Studies, Interior Design, Interior Design History, and Historic Preservation Studies—could address climate justice to build resilient communities.
Associate Professor
School of Architecture
College of Design,
Construction and Planning
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
Dean Research,
Associate Professor
USM’s Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture and Environmental Studies, Mumbai, India.
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education
Director of the UF Center for Hydro-generated Urbanism (UF|CHU)
Associate Professor School of Architecture
University of Florida College of Design, Construction and Planning of Design, Construction and Planning
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
The International Network for Tropical Architecture (iNTA) is formed as a networking platform for international researchers and practitioners to collaborate and learn from each other about problems and solutions pertaining to architecture and urban design in the tropical (and sub-tropical) regions because of the shared climatic imperatives and opportunities in like regions. Tropical Architecture refers to man-made architectural and urban environments relating to the climatic and natural conditions of the tropical (and sub-tropical) regions and interacting with various local specifics of culture, urban fabric and technology.
iNTA was founded in Singapore in 2004 by academic staff of the National University of Singapore comprising Philip Bay Joo Hwa, Tse Swee Ling, Wong Nyuk Hien, Malone-Lee Lai Choo, and Johannes Widodo. This founding team steered the initial aims and operational policy of iNTA that the network should remain as a versatile network of individuals with an interest in research on tropical design issues, that there is no necessity to register as a formal society, and that no subscription is necessary. The permanent secretariat of iNTA is at the Department of Architecture, College of Design and Engineering, National University of Singapore.
Director
Graduate Programs in Architectural Conservation
and
Tun Tan Cheng Lock Centre for Asian Architectural and Urban Heritage (in Melaka) of the National University of Singapore
Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture & Environmental Studies
Vidyanidhi Bhawan II,
Vidyanidhi Marg, J.V.P.D. Scheme
Mumbai, Maharashtra,
India. Pin – 400 049
Ph: +91 8369485581 / 8454812762
Email: admin@krvia.ac.in
