ABSTRACT
This book focuses on the relation between indoor and outdoor climate change. In global terms, the energy cost of maintaining standardised ‘comfort’ conditions in buildings and in outdoor environments around the world is ultimately unsustainable. This is one extremely good reason for thinking anew about the relation between people and the environments they inhabit. Another is that the indoors– the place in which most of us spend most of our lives – is set to be a crucial site in which efforts to mitigate and adapt to climate change play out (Chappells and Shove, 2005). The expectation and the reality of hotter, more extreme, or more extremely varied outdoor climates is already significant for the definition and provision of comfort in what will also have to be a lower carbon society.
