sustainability Article The Citizens’ Views on Adaptation to Bioclimatic Housing Design: Case Study from Greece Veronika Andrea 1 , Stilianos Tampakis 2,*, Paraskevi Karanikola 1 and Maria Georgopoulou 1 1 Department of Forestry and Management of the Environment and Natural Resources, Democritus University of Thrace, 68200 Orestiada, Greece;
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[email protected]; Tel.: +30-231-099-2756 Received: 2 May 2020; Accepted: 12 June 2020; Published: 18 June 2020 Abstract: Bioclimatic housing design is regarded as an important pillar towards energy policies. Additionally, it is closely affiliated with the performance of energy efficiency of buildings. The citizens’ views and their adaptation to energy saving practices can be utilized as an important data base in order to design, improve and properly manage urbanization and environmental challenges in the residential sector. For the capitalization of the citizens’ views in Orestiada, the newest city in Greece, simple random sampling was applied on data that were collected via personal interviews and with the use of a structured questionnaire. Reliability and factor analyses were applied for the data processing along with hierarchical log-linear analysis. The latter was utilized for the statistical clustering of citizens into given distinct groups—clusters, arising by factor analysis. The main findings revealed that the citizens are merely aware of bioclimatic principles, while only a small percentage of 28.8% adopts some primary bioclimatic disciplines.