Mitigation and Adaptation of Urban Overheating

The Impact of Warmer Cities on Climate, Energy, Health, Environmental Quality, Economy, and Quality of Life

1st Edition - March 21, 2024
Editors: Nasrin Aghamohammadi, Mattheos Santamouris
Language: English
Paperback ISBN:
9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 3 5 0 2 - 6
eBook ISBN:
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Provides a fully organized, comprehensive, and holistic analysis of the impact of urban overheating, mitigation, and adaptation on energy, health, environmental quality, survivability, quality of life, and economy

Mitigation and Adaptation of Urban Overheating aims to analyze and present all existing relative studies to investigate the global magnitude and characteristics of the ambient temperature drop and the reduction of the heat burden resulting from modified climate conditions due to the implementation of urban mitigation and adaptation technologies and policies.

This book will discuss urban overheating, urban heat mitigation, governance, anthropogenic heat emissions, adaptation and adaptation technologies, and their impacts on urban environmental quality, urban health, energy supply and demand, low-income and aged populations, and the economy of cities. This book incorporates recent developments on urban climatology, urban overheating, mitigation, and adaptation technologies.

Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
List of contributors
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Urban overheating and its impact on human beings
Abstract
1.1 Introduction
1.2 On the impact of urban overheating on the energy demand of buildings
1.3 On the impact of urban overheating on the peak electricity demand
1.4 On the impact of urban overheating on the concentration of urban pollutants
1.5 On the impact of urban overheating on health
1.6 On the impact of urban overheating on vulnerable and low income population
1.7 On the impact of urban overheating on human productivity
1.8 Conclusions
References
Chapter 2. Urban heat mitigation and adaptation: the state of the art
Abstract
2.1 Urban heat: technologies and pathways toward mitigation and adaptation
2.2 Multidimensional approaches to heat vulnerability
2.3 Urban heat monitoring: excursus on different techniques
2.4 Urban heat modeling: capitalizing on lessons learnt
2.5 Urban climatology of greenery
2.6 Urban heat: a materials perspective
2.7 What is the cities’ state of the art?
Disclaimer
References
Chapter 3. The impact of heat mitigation and adaptation technologies and urban climate
Abstract
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Demonstration of cool spots in outdoor spaces
3.3 Strategies to implement adaptation measures for extreme high temperatures into street canyon
3.4 Summary
References
Chapter 4. The impact of heat mitigation on low-income population
Abstract
4.1 Urban growth and development of megacities
4.2 Opportunities and vulnerability of cities
4.3 The impact of overheating on energy poverty
4.4 The impact of urban heat islands between cities and peripheries
4.5 Mitigation strategies to face urban heat islands
4.6 Conclusive remarks
References
Chapter 5. The impact of heat mitigation and adaptation technologies on urban health
Abstract
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Urban heat: energy, environmental, and urban health implications
5.3 Urban heat mitigation via urban greeneries
5.4 Urban health implications of urban heat mitigation via greeneries
5.5 The exposure and vulnerability of the urban populations to urban heat
5.6 Limitations of heat mitigation technologies on urban health
5.7 Conclusion
Acknowledgment
Declaration of competing interest
References
Chapter 6. The impact of heat mitigation on energy demand
Abstract
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Urban heat island mitigation technologies to decrease energy demand
6.3 Increased albedo technologies
6.4 Increased vegetation
6.5 Direct and indirect effects of urban heat island mitigation strategies
6.6 Methods to estimate the energy impact of heat mitigation strategies
6.7 Building scale
6.8 Urban scale
6.9 The energy impact of urban heat island mitigation strategies
6.10 Building scale
6.11 Increased vegetation
6.12 Urban scale
6.13 Discussion on factors affecting the energy performance of urban heat island mitigation strategies
6.14 Conclusions
References
Chapter 7. The impact of heat mitigation on urban environmental quality
Abstract
7.1 Introduction
7.2 General perspective
7.3 Approaches on heat mitigation impacts and urban environmental quality
7.4 Present challenges and future pathways
References
Chapter 8. The impact of heat adaptation on low-income population
Abstract
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Energy poverty and vulnerability
8.3 The quality of living conditions
8.4 Addressing heat vulnerability: recommendations and solutions
8.5 Conclusion
References
Chapter 9. Regional climatic change and aged population. Adaptive measures to support current and future requirements
Abstract
Highlights
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Effects of climate change on the health of older adults
9.3 Emotional resilience and mental health
9.4 Adaptive measures to support current and future requirements
9.5 Conclusions
References
Chapter 10. The impact of heat adaptation on socioeconomically vulnerable populations
Abstract
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Heat exposure through a climate justice lens
10.3 Impacts of heat on inequalities
10.4 Synergies with other environmental hazards
10.5 Conclusions
References
Chapter 11. Urban overheating governance on the mitigation and adaptation of anthropogenic heat emissions
Abstract
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Anthropogenic heat and its definition and sources
11.3 Governance and mitigation of urban overheating
11.4 Melbourne (case study)
11.5 Auckland (case study)
11.6 Conclusion
11.7 Challenges and future directions
References
Index

Nasrin Aghamohammadi

Dr. Nasrin Aghamohammadi is an Associate Professor at Curtin University, Australia and environmental engineering in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Her core expertise is in sustainability, net zero precincts, climate change adaptation, urban heat island phenomenon, and health impact. Since 1995, she has targeted contamination measurement and possible control. She has an extensive background in pure and applied research as well as chemical engineering. She has acquired, applied, and taken pride in a very wide range of experiences and activities from hands-on projects such as projects involving air, water, wastewater, solid waste, and related health issues. She led as the principal investigator for various local and international research focusing on urban health and climate change addressing sustainable development goals and sustainable future cities. Her main research is on net zero precincts and urban footprint mitigations.

Affiliations and expertise

Associate Professor at Curtin University, Australia and environmental engineering in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

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.

Affiliations and expertise

University of New South Wales,Sydney, Australia

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