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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
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Nasrin Aghamohammadi, Mattheos Santamouris
  • Language: English

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Description

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.

Key features

  • Provides quantitative and qualitative information to overcome and bridge the existing gap of knowledge regarding the impact of urban overheating, mitigation, and adaptation
  • Includes the latest developments on the evaluation of urban climatic change on energy, health, environment, society, and economy
  • Explains the impact of urban climatic change, mitigation technologies, and adaptation technologies on built environment

Readership

Environmental scientists, environmental engineers, climatologists, energy scientists, postgraduate students, researchers, architects and policymakers

Table of contents

  1. Urban overheating and its impact on human beings
  2. Urban heat mitigation and adaptation: the state of the art
  3. The impact of heat mitigation and adaptation technologies and urban climate
  4. The impact of heat mitigation on low-income population
  5. The impact of heat mitigation and adaptation technologies on urban health
  6. The impact of heat mitigation on energy demand
  7. The impact of heat mitigation on urban environmental quality
  8. The impact of heat adaptation on low-income population
  9. Regional climatic change and aged population. Adaptive measures to support current and future requirements
  10. Impact of regional climatic change on the economy of cities—impact of adaptation and mitigation policies
  11. Urban overheating governance on the mitigation and adaptation of anthropogenic heat emissions

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: March 21, 2024
  • Language: English

About the editors

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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.

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Mattheos Santamouris

Professor Matthaios Santamouris is a Scientia, Distinguished, Professor of High Performance Architecture at University of New South Wales.

Affiliations and expertise
University of New South Wales,Sydney, Australia

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