Preface

Abstract

2nd International Conference on Cultural Communication & Space (ICCCS) CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT Level 1, GDLN Building, Udayana University Denpasar CampusJl. P.B. Sudirman, Denpasar - Bali (80232), Indonesia5 August 2021https://icccs.unud.ac.id Gusti Ayu Made Suartika In 1896 the Swedish scientist and Noble Prize winner Svante Arrhenius showed that a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide would result on earth in increased surface temperature of 5-6 degrees Celsius. His warning has largely gone unheeded for the last 124 years, and we are already in an era of disaster management now guaranteed to get significantly worse. The response of nature is ubiquitous and terrifying-prolonged drought, bushfires, extreme flooding, unbearable heat waves, freezing storms, rising sea water levels, melting polar icecaps and glaciers, coastal abrasion, and other phenomena. Some believe these conditions are natural - the adopted manner by which the earth chooses to rejuvenate itself and therefore to deny we have any responsibility for its effects. Climate change sceptics promote ‘fake news’ largely to perpetuate business interests for a few more years, in a lemming like rush towards disaster. Or as O’Connor’s second law states, ‘capitalism always destroys the source of its own success.’Nature’s responses to centuries of abuse do not however address the human cost of global warming – everything from health issues, increasing costs of social services, the loss of livelihood and property, and the potential adaptation of our entire built environment in the interests of survival. The 2nd International Conference on Cultural Communication and Space (ICCCS) promotes the viewpoint that concerted action is needed across a wide range of offensives – providing alternative energy sources; remodelling the built environment; reducing both personal and industrial consumption of nature, radically changing political systems, an immediate triple bottom line approach to all business, and a sceptical view of technology as having any capacity to ameliorate the above problems. Even then a sustainable planet might not result.While many academic events have discussed these matters across the whole spectrum of problems, we focus here on the built environment in relation to climate change phenomena and its required responses to culture and space. Given the above considerations, this second ICCCS focuses on the following topics of conversation that address the significant policies and practices of climate change:List of CONFERENCE INFORMATION are available in this pdf.