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Adapting to Urban Heat: Strategies and Tools for Resilience in Low Carbon Cities provides a comprehensive and rigorous examination of the issues associated with adapting to climate change and building urban resilience. The book's editors have gathered an impressive team of authors to examine the implications of urban heat, tools for decoding and coding urban heat, and design strategies for adapting to urban heat. Sections explore the issue from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, encompassing environmental engineering, climate change, ecology, data science, and architectural design.This reference is an essential resource for researchers and practitioners working in environmental science and climate change who are interested in building more resilient and sustainable cities.- Provides an interdisciplinary approach to the study and understanding of urban heat islands- Presents evidence-based strategies to for adapting to climate change and building urban resilience- Includes a critical assessment of the role data science and GIS technologies play in climate change and urban planning
Table of Contents
Part 1 Setting the stage for urban heat adaptationEmanuele Naboni, Carlos Rivera Gmez, Carmen Galan-Marin andMat Santamouris1. Adapting to heat1.1 Adapting to heat1.2 The professional gap in adapting to urban heat1.3 Adapting to heat1.4 From mitigation to regenerative adaptation1.5 Adaptive ecology1.6 Carbon1.7 Adaptive healthReferencesPart 2 Understanding, mitigating and adapting to urban overheatingM. Santamouris and K. Vasilakopoulou2. Urban overheating: impacts and heat mitigation technologies2.1 Introduction2.2 The impact of urban overheating2.3 Future urban climate and impact2.4 Heat mitigation technologies2.5 Conclusions and proposalsReferences3. Understanding anticipatory resilience in urban and architectural design for climate change, ecology, health, and decarbonizationEmanuele Naboni3.1 Adapting ecology to prevent the phytogenic heat island3.2 Adapting decarbonization by recoupling3.3 People adapt to heatReferencesPart 3 Designing for urban heat adaptationMarialena Nikolopoulou4. Design for adapting urban microclimates and enhancing user comfort: strategies for heat at the neighborhood scale4.1 Introduction4.2 Urbanization and microclimate4.3 Thermal materiality4.4 Adaptation and climate-responsive design4.5 ConclusionsReferencesFurther reading5. Understanding the interrelationships between urban spaces and buildings, within overheating cities Agnese Salvati and Massimo Palme5.1 Introduction5.2 The climate of urban landscapes5.3 Climate and energy interactions at the building-street scale5.4 Synergies between urban warming and climate change5.5 Adaptation and mitigation measures: counteracting urban heat island5.6 Reducing building cooling demand and anthropogenic heat generation5.7 Summary for practitioners and actionable points5.8 ConclusionReferencesFurther reading6. Understanding and measuring the cooling performance of trees Daniela Maiullari, René van der Velde, Saskia de Wit, Michiel Pouderoijen and Marjolein van Esch6.1 The role of urban forests as cooling devices for adapting to urban heat6.2 Cooling mechanisms of tree6.3 Key cooling factors of urban forests6.4 Methods and protocols to measure tree/nature-based solutions cooling performance6.5 ConclusionsReferencesPart 4 Tools for decoding and coding urban heatJesus Lizana, Patrick Fahr, Nethmi Jayaratne Kariyawasam, Patricia Vargas,Miguel Nez-Peir and Radhika Khosla7. The role of data science in developing heat-resilientcommunities7.1 Introduction7.2 Data on heat-related climate hazards7.3 Data on exposure7.4 Quantification and prediction of heat-related vulnerability and risk through data science7.5 Discussion of challenges and opportunities7.6 ConclusionsAcknowledgmentsReferences8. From urban meteorological networks to adaptation in Amsterdam, Ghent, and Novi Sad Dragan Milosevic, Gert-Jan Steeneveld, Stevan Savic and Steven Caluwaerts8.1 Introduction8.2 Methodology, databases, and tools8.3 Urban heat islands across cities8.4 Adaptation strategies, practical applications, and takeaways8.5 Future plans for urban heat adaptation8.6 ConclusionsAcknowledgmentsReferences9. The role of using remote sensing evaluating urban heat adaptation strategies measures Antonio Serrano-Jimnez, Javier Sola-Caraballo, Carmen Daz-Lopez and Jorge Roa-Fernndez9.1 Introduction9.2 Remote sensing sources for obtaining urban satellite images9.3 Usefulness of geographic information systems and local climatic zones to locate hotspots9.4 Methodology9.5 Results and discussion9.6 ConclusionsReferences10. Multiscale modeling techniques and experimental monitoring of heat Victoria Patricia Lopez-Cabeza, Eduardo Diz-Mellado, Carmen Galan-Marin and Carlos Rivera Gmez10.1 Introduction10.2 State of the art10.3 Multiscale case studies description: different approaches10.4 Discussion10.5 ConclusionsReferences11. Adapting to urban heaton the use of urban weather files for assessing buildings overheatingMiguel Nez-Peir, Javier Neila and Snchez-Guevara Carmen11.1 Introduction11.
