Circular Economy and Regenerative Sustainability in Emergency Housing: Eco-Efficient Prototype Design for Subaşi Refugee Camp in Turkey

Pilar Mercader-Moyano,Paula Porras-Pereira,Carlos Levinton

doi:10.3390/su13148100

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According to the most recent data from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, in 2020, 82.4 million people were forcibly displaced. In addition to this situation, in the developed world, building construction consumes 40% of the world’s material resources and primary energy, while the construction industry generates 35% of industrial waste and 40% of total global emissions. Therefore, the objective of the research is to propose an eco-efficient prototype for emergency housing, from the point of view of circular economy and regenerative sustainability, that can respond to situations of natural or humanitarian disasters. To achieve this, it will be necessary to identify the problem that must be answered and develop a theoretical model that will serve as a guide for future interventions of these characteristics. Finally, to verify the applicability of the developed protocol, a field work is executed in an unorganized settlement, Subaşi camp, located in Turkey. This research presents a novel prototype that could be used as an alternative to current emergency housing, not only responding adequately to the minimum standards of habitability, but also doing so in an eco-efficient, environmentally correct way and promoting the Sustainable Development Goals and circular economy established in the 2030 Agenda.

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In the last two decades, 7056 natural disasters occurred in the world causing 1.35 million deaths, of which 90% were caused by climate change [1]
The objective of the research is to propose an eco-efficient prototype for emergency housing, from the point of view of circular economy and regenerative sustainability, that can respond to situations of natural or humanitarian disasters
In order to achieve an eco-efficient and environmentally sustainable theoretical model that meets the minimum standards of habitability in emergency housing, it will be necessary to follow the subsequent methodology, as outlined in Figure 4, which will allow the achievement of the main objective: the design of an emergency housing prototype to optimise circular economy

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In the last two decades, 7056 natural disasters occurred in the world causing 1.35 million deaths, of which 90% were caused by climate change [1]. In 2019, 75% of the displacements registered, 24.9 million, were caused by natural disasters and 25%, 8.5 million, by conflicts [2]. The main cause of displacement worldwide is natural disasters, registering 24.9 million new internal displacements in 2019, 75% of the total, caused mainly by storms [2,5]. This can be seen, which shows, on a world map, the areas affected by displacement related to conflicts in orange, and those related to natural disasters in yellow.

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