Global Urban Heat Island Mitigation

1st Edition - June 15, 2022
Editors: Ansar Khan, Hashem Akbari, Francesco Fiorito, Sk Mithun, Dev Niyogi
Language: English
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Global Urban Heat Island Mitigation provides a comprehensive picture of global UHI micro-thermal interaction in different built environments. The book explains physical principles and how to moderate undesirable consequences of swift and haphazard urban development to create more sustainable and resilient cities. Sections provide extensive discussion on numerous UHI mitigation technologies and their effectiveness in cities around the globe. In addition, the book proposes novel UHI mitigation technologies and strategies while also assessing the effectiveness and suitability of UHI mitigation interventions in various climates and urban forms.

Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
List of contributors
Chapter 1. Mapping and management of urban shade assets: a novel approach for promoting climatic urban action
1. Urban planning and urban microclimate: a challenge of knowledge communication
2. Correlating the language of urban morphology with its climatic outcomes
3. Urban heat island mitigation measures: the limits of intervention
4. Shade's pivotal effect on outdoor thermal comfort and its urban-scale mapping
5. Quantifying shade levels and tree planting: suggested indicators
6. Case study: using the indicators for urban shade analysis in Tel Aviv-Yafo
7. Conclusion
Chapter 2. Vulnerability to the urban heat islands effect in the Global North and the Global South: assessment of the drivers and mitigation strategies
1. Introduction
2. Drivers and consequences of the UHI: a brief literature review
3. Methodology and data issues
4. Empirical analysis
5. Conclusion and policy discussion
Chapter 3. Luminescence for the built environment: from lighting to urban heat island mitigation purposes
1. Introduction
2. Materials
3. Characterizing photoluminescent materials for building applications
4. Fields of application
5. Conclusions and future developments
Chapter 4. Urban heat island: land cover changes, management, and mitigation strategies
1. Introduction
2. Urban heat island (UHI)
3. Land use land cover (LULC)
4. Remote sensing indices
5. Land cover management strategies for heat and temperature management
6. Mitigation strategies
7. Summary
Chapter 5. Use of landscape metrics for the mitigation of the surface urban heat island effect in Mediterranean cities
1. Introduction
2. Landscape metrics and the urban heat island
3. Material and methods
4. Results and discussion
5. Conclusions
Chapter 6. Effects of land use composition and pattern on land surface temperature: an urban heat island study in the megacities of Scotland, UK, using time series of landsat TM/ETM+data
1. Introduction
2. Methodology
3. Results
4. Discussion and conclusions
Chapter 7. Urban heat island mitigation and adaptation in China: policies and practices
1. Introduction
2. Significant spatiotemporal variations of (S)UHI in China
3. Policies and practices of UHI mitigation in China
4. Existing challenges and future directions
5. Conclusion
Chapter 8. Climatic control of outdoor spaces in the Universal Exposition 1992 (EXPO'92)
1. Side description
2. Mitigation measure description
3. Assessment method
4. Results
5. Conclusions
Chapter 9. Open space and built form metrics: identification and implementation of strategies to mitigate UHI in tropical climates
1. Introduction
2. Open space and built form metrics
3. Open space metrics and UHI at Vijayawada
4. Development regulations and UHI at Chennai
5. Conclusion
Chapter 10. StEMAIRF-BGI as a tool for UHI mitigation using land use planning and designing
1. Introduction
2. UHI as a disaster risk
3. Climate scenarios
4. Mitigation and adaptation for UHI
5. Strategic Ecosystem Monitoring, Assessment, and BGI Implementation-Based Resilience Framework
6. StEMAIR framework application for UHI
7. Conclusion
Chapter 11. Urban heat island effect in India: assessment, impacts, and mitigation
1. Introduction
2. Growth of research in urban heat island in India
3. Classification and assessment methodologies for UHI
4. Evolution of UHI with urbanization and development: case studies
5. Impacts of urban heat island effect
6. Mitigation studies
7. Conclusions
Chapter 12. Urban heat island in Latin American cities: a review of trends, impacts, and mitigation strategies
1. Introduction
2. Cities and climate in Latin America
3. UHI studies in Latin America: a brief review
4. Trends and impacts
5. Mitigation strategies: recent implementations, advances, and proposals
6. Tropical climate
7. Arid climate
8. Temperate climates
9. Increasing adaptive capacity
10. Conclusion
Chapter 13. Air quality and heat-related health impacts of increasing urban greenery cover
1. Introduction
2. Method and results
3. Air quality and health responses
4. Conclusions
Chapter 14. Visualization of landuse change pattern and its impact on Urban Heat Islands
1. Introduction
2. Understanding LST
3. Urban Heat Island
4. Significance of studying LST and UHI
5. Theoretical background
6. Practical example
7. Mitigation measures
8. Conclusion
Chapter 15. Surface urban heat islands in 33 medium-sized cities across different climates in Chile
1. Introduction
2. Method
3. Results
4. Final considerations
Chapter 16. Investigating the intra-urban urban heat island effect for two subtropical mega-urban regions in China by adopting local climate zone
1. Introduction
2. Case study: Pearl River Delta region
3. Case study: Yangtze River Delta
4. Discussions and implementations
5. Conclusions
Chapter 17. Impact of urban cool strategies on energy performance of HVAC systems in a dense urban district of a Mediterranean city, Beirut, Lebanon
1. Introduction
2. Methodology
3. Case study
4. Results
5. Discussion
6. Conclusion
Index

Ansar Khan

Dr. Khan is an Assistant Professor of Geography at Lalbaba College, Howrah, India. His research incorporates simulation and numerical modeling of global climatic events including urban climate and microclimatic variation using the state-of-the-art Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model and Regional Climate Model (RegCM). A key focus of his research is searching for appropriate mitigation strategies and technologies to decrease the overheating of tropical urban areas while also decreasing energy consumption and protecting health. He has commendable expertise in handling data and implementing models in many software platforms. His research contribution has been recognized by some leading researchers in the domain of urban climate research.

Affiliations and expertise

Department of Geography, Lalbaba College, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India

Hashem Akbari

Hashem Akbari is a Professor at the Department of Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering, Concordia University, Canada. He has conceived, led, and supervised work in heat-island quantification and mitigation in the United States and abroad. Prior to Concordia University, he was a senior scientist and the leader of the Heat Island Group at the Environmental Energy Technologies Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California. He is Chief Editor and Editor of several scientific journals and co-author of 5 books on related to the effects of UHIs, and author of almost 239 scientific papers published in peer reviewed international scientific journals.

Affiliations and expertise

Department of Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Francesco Fiorito

Francesco Fiorito is an Associate Professor of Architectural Engineering, Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy and Senior Visiting Fellow, University of New South Wales, Australia. His research focuses on the development and assessment of new technologies and systems for buildings, with the aim of reducing building energy demand and improve indoor and outdoor comfort. He is in the editorial board of several scientific journals and has published more than 60 research outputs.

Affiliations and expertise

Department of Civil, Environmental, Land, Building Engineering and Chemistry, Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy; Senior Visiting Fellow, University of New South Wales, Australia

Sk Mithun

Sk Mithun is an Assistant Professor of Geography at Haldia Government College, Vidyasagar University, India. His research primarily focuses on urbanization, urban sprawl, modeling urban growth and land use/land cover dynamics.

Affiliations and expertise

Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Haldia Government College, Vidyasagar University, India

Dev Niyogi

Dev Niyogi is Dave P. Carelton Centennial Professor in the Department of Geological Sciences at Jackson School of Geosciences, and Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering in the University of Texas at Austin, USA. He was the most recent chair of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) Board of Urban Environment and elected advisory board member of the International Association of Urban Climate. He is currently serving on the AMS Committee on Applied Climatology, and has previously served on AMS Committee on Agriculture and Forest Meteorology, invited member FGDC Spatial Climate Working Group, Member of the Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) model WG-14 (land surface models), and Member of the AGU Biogeochemistry meetings group/spring meeting student awards chair. He has provided invited testimonies to the National Academy study group, planning summer meetings, and Senate Working groups.

Affiliations and expertise

Dave P. Carelton Centennial Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, and Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA

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