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Adapting to Urban Heat
Strategies and Tools for Resilience in Low Carbon Cities
- 1st Edition - February 1, 2025
- Editors: Carmen Galán Marín, Carlos Rivera Gómez, Emanuele Naboni, Mattheos Santamouris
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 8 9 7 7 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 8 9 7 8 - 1
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 climat… Read more
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- 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
1. A Rough Ride to Urban Resilience: Challenges and Design Opportunities in the Age of Climate Change
PART 2: UNDERSTANDING URBAN HEAT AND ITS IMPLICATIONS
2. Understanding Urban Heat within the Climate Change Realm.
3. Anticipatory Resilience in Urban and Architectural Design for Climate Change, Ecology, Health, and Decarbonization
4. Assessing the Costs and Benefits of Adaptation Strategies from an Economic Perspective
PART 3: TOOLS FOR DECODING AND CODING URBAN HEAT
5. The Role of Data Science in Developing Low-Carbon Cities with Improved Urban Heat Mitigation
6. Evaluating the Performance of Urban Heat Adaptation Strategy Measures Using Remote Sensing and GIS Technologies
7. Urban Heat Mitigation: Multiscale Modelling Techniques and Experimental Monitoring
PART 4: DESIGN FOR ADAPTING TO URBAN HEAT
8. Urban Heat Adaptation through Improved Architectural Energy-Efficiency
9. Harnessing the Power of Nature: Adaptation through Nature-Based Solutions
10. Adapting Urban Microclimates and Enhancing User Comfort: Strategies for Heat at the Neighborhood Scale
11. Modelling the Effect of Urban Form and Morphology on Local Climate and Heat Island Intensity
PART 5: CONCLUSION
12. Conclusions
- No. of pages: 250
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: February 1, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443289774
- eBook ISBN: 9780443289781
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Carmen Galán Marín
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Carlos Rivera Gómez
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Emanuele Naboni
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Mattheos Santamouris
Mat Santamouris is the Anita Lawrence Professor of High Performance Architecture in the University of New South Wales in Australia. He is a past a professor at the University of Athens, Greece and visiting Professor at the Cyprus Institute, Metropolitan University of London, Tokyo Polytechnic University, Bolzano University, Brunnel University and National University of Singapore. Past President of the National Center of Renewable and Energy Savings of Greece. Editor and author of 15 international books on topics related to heat island, solar energy and energy conservation in buildings published by Earthscan, Springer, etc. Guest editor of twelve special issues of various scientific journals. Scientific coordinator of many international research programs and author of almost 290 scientific papers published in peer reviewed international scientific journals. Reviewer of research projects in 15 countries including USA, UK, France, Germany, Canada, Sweden, etc. Expert in various International Research Institutions. Highly Cited researcher according to Clarivate in 2017 and 2018.