New York State Climate Impacts Assessment: 04 Buildings

Authors

Nicholas B. Rajkovich, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Carrie Brown, Resource Refocus
Ilya Azaroff, CUNY New York City College of TechnologyFollow
Erik Backus, Clarkson University
Shannon Clarke, New York State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services
Jared Enriquez, University at Albany, State University of New York
Bethany Greenaway, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Meghan T. Holtan, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Jamal Lewis, Rewiring America
Ozgem Ornektekin, Ko2 Consulting
Laurie Schoeman, Council on Environmental Quality

Document Type

Report

Publication Date

2024

Abstract

New York State has nearly 5.3 million buildings, and all of them are vulnerable in some way to the impacts of climate change. Understanding these impacts is critical, because risks to buildings not only threaten individual lives but also pose threats to community-level resilience. This chapter examines the impacts of climate change on buildings and, by extension, the people and communities they shelter and support. It also highlights building types and populations that are at particular risk and presents adaptation strategies to protect the state’s existing and future building stock from climate impacts.

Comments

This report was originally published in Annals of the New York Academy of Science, available at https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.15200

This work is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).