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Anna Solcerova, Tim Van Emmerik, Koen Hilgersom, Frans Van de Ven and Nick Van de Giesen
The urban heat island effect was first described 200 years ago, but the development of ways to mitigate heat in urban areas reaches much further into the past. Uchimizu is a 17th century Japanese tradition, in which water is sprinkled around houses to co...
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Jérémy Bernard, Auline Rodler, Benjamin Morille and Xueyao Zhang
Green areas induce smaller increases in the air temperature than built-up areas. They can offer a solution to mitigating the urban heat island impacts during heat waves, since the cool air generated by a park is diffused into its immediate surroundings t...
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Jérémy Bernard, Auline Rodler, Benjamin Morille and Xueyao Zhang
Green areas induce smaller increases in the air temperature than built-up areas. They can offer a solution to mitigating the urban heat island impacts during heat waves, since the cool air generated by a park is diffused into its immediate surroundings t...
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Pritipadmaja, Rahul Dev Garg and Ashok K. Sharma
The Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect is a significant concern in today?s rapidly urbanising cities, with exacerbating heatwaves? impact, urban livelihood, and environmental well-being. This study aims to assess the cooling effect of blue-green spaces in Bh...
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Ivan Lee, James A. Voogt and Terry J. Gillespie
With the expected increase in warmer conditions caused by climate change, heat-related illnesses are becoming a more pressing issue. One way that humans can protect themselves from this is to seek shade. The design of urban spaces can provide individuals...
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Sharifah Khalizah Syed Othman Thani,Nor Hanisah Mohd Hashim,Nik Hanita Nik Mohamad,Syed Abdul Mutalib Al Junid Syed Abdul Rahman
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The study aims to investigate the potential of vegetation design as a microclimatic modifier at KLCC park. The scope of the study is to determine the impact of vegetation types towards thermal comfort. The different morphological characteristics of trees...
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Sadroddin Alavipanah, Martin Wegmann, Salman Qureshi, Qihao Weng and Thomas Koellner
The Urban Heat Island (UHI) is the phenomenon of altered increased temperatures in urban areas compared to their rural surroundings. UHIs grow and intensify under extreme hot periods, such as during heat waves, which can affect human health and also incr...
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Qunshan Zhao, Jiachuan Yang, Zhi-Hua Wang and Elizabeth A. Wentz
Urban green infrastructure, especially shade trees, offers benefits to the urban residential environment by mitigating direct incoming solar radiation on building facades, particularly in hot settings. Understanding the impact of different tree locations...
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Qunshan Zhao, Jiachuan Yang, Zhi-Hua Wang and Elizabeth A. Wentz
Urban green infrastructure, especially shade trees, offers benefits to the urban residential environment by mitigating direct incoming solar radiation on building facades, particularly in hot settings. Understanding the impact of different tree locations...
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Tongliga Bao, Xueming Li, Jing Zhang, Yingjia Zhang and Shenzhen Tian
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David Kimemia, Ashley van Niekerk, Harold Annegarn, Mohamed Seedat
Energy-poor households in Africa?s burgeoning urban informal settlements are especially likely to suffer from heatwaves because of thermally inefficient dwellings and lack of affordable cooling options. This study utilised a controlled experiment to asse...
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Qunfeng Ji, Yangbo Bi, Mehdi Makvandi, Qinli Deng, Xilin Zhou and Chuancheng Li
Quantifying the energy consumption of buildings is a complex and multi-scale task, with the entire process dependent on input data and urban surroundings. However, most urban energy models do not account for the urban environment. This paper employs a ph...
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Victor Ruiz-Aviles, Anthony Brazel, Jonathan M. Davis and David Pijawka
Extreme heat threatens desert city residents throughout the hot summer months and inhibits outdoor recreation and activity. Ecosystem services provide various benefits for urban environments. For desert cities, few are more critical than microclimate reg...
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Ajay Chandra Lal
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Climate change has emerged as a major challenge to human kind in the 21st century and Nepal is no exception. The challenges are even more severe in the context of urban areas where most wealth and population is concentrated. Greening an area is a major s...
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Lu Wang
In the context of climate change, heat waves are a serious hazard having significant impacts on human health, especially vulnerable populations. Many studies have researched the association between extreme heat and mortality. In the context of urban plan...
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Gereon Seeberg, Antonia Hostlowsky, Julia Huber, Julia Kamm, Lucia Lincke and Clemens Schwingshackl
The urban heat island (UHI) effect is a serious health risk for people living in cities and thus calls for effective mitigation strategies in urban areas. Satellite data enable monitoring of the surface urban heat island (SUHI) over large areas at high s...
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Uk-Hyeon Yeo, Sang-Yeon Lee, Se-Jun Park, Jun-Gyu Kim, Jeong-Hwa Cho, Cristina Decano-Valentin, Rack-Woo Kim and In-Bok Lee
Building-integrated rooftop greenhouses (BiRTGs) are innovative vertical farms consisting of a greenhouse on the roof of a building. BiRTGs can provide environmental benefits by recycling energy, carbon dioxide, and water between the greenhouse and the b...
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Giacomo Bagarella, Filippo Busato, Francesco Castellotti, Andrea D?Ascanio, Renato Lazzarin, Fabio Minchio, Daniele Nardotto, Marco Noro and Lorenzo Zamboni
At the Department of Management and Engineering (DTG) of the University of Padova (Italy), the research team led by Prof. Renato Lazzarin, formed by the authors, worked during the first fifteen years of the millennium on different topics focused on susta...
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Flavia Laureti, Letizia Martinelli and Alessandra Battisti
As urban overheating is increasing, there is a strong public interest towards mitigation strategies to enhance comfortable urban spaces, for their role in supporting urban metabolism and social life. The study presents an assessment of the existing therm...
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Flavia Laureti, Letizia Martinelli and Alessandra Battisti
As urban overheating is increasing, there is a strong public interest towards mitigation strategies to enhance comfortable urban spaces, for their role in supporting urban metabolism and social life. The study presents an assessment of the existing therm...
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