The Urban Heat Island
- 1st Edition - May 24, 2021
- Authors: Iain D. Stewart, Gerald Mills
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 5 0 1 7 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 5 6 9 0 - 2
The Urban Heat Island (UHI) is an area of growing interest for many people studying the urban environment and local/global climate change. The UHI has been scientifically studied f… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThe Urban Heat Island (UHI) is an area of growing interest for many people studying the urban environment and local/global climate change. The UHI has been scientifically studied for 200 years and, although it is an apparently simple phenomenon, there is considerable confusion around the different types of UHI and their assessment. The Urban Heat Island—A Guidebook provides simple instructions for measuring and analysing the phenomenon, as well as greater context for defining the UHI and the impacts it can have. Readers will be empowered to work within a set of guidelines that enable direct comparison of UHI effects across diverse settings, while informing a wide range of climate mitigation and adaptation programs to modify human behaviour and the built form. This opens the door to true global assessments of local climate change in cities. Urban planning and design strategies can then be evaluated for their effectiveness at mitigating these changes.
- Covers both on-surface and near-surface, or canopy, measurements and impacts of Urban Heat Islands (UHI)
- Provides a set of best practices and guidelines for UHI observation and analysis
- Includes both conceptual overviews and practical instructions for a wide range of uses
Climatologists, meteorologists, geographers, architects, engineers, urban planners, environmental planners, policy and decisions makers, bioclimatologists, urban ecologists, public health officials
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- List of figures and tables
- List of figures
- List of tables
- 1: Introduction
- Abstract
- 1.1: A brief history of UHI studies
- 1.2: Why continue to observe the UHI?
- 1.3: The purpose of this book
- Part One
- Introduction
- 2: The energetic basis
- Abstract
- 2.1: Energy and energy transfer
- 2.2: Energy balances and budgets
- 2.3: The urban landscape
- 2.4: The urban heat island
- 2.5: Concluding remarks
- 3: UHI management
- Abstract
- 3.1: A UHI management model
- 3.2: Human climates
- 3.3: Heat mitigation
- 3.4: Heat adaptation
- 3.5: Heat management tools
- 3.6: Costs and benefits
- 3.7: Concluding remarks
- Part Two
- Introduction
- 4: Planning a CUHI study
- Abstract
- 4.1: Preparatory steps
- 4.2: Designing the study
- 4.3: Concluding remarks
- 5: Executing a CUHI study
- Abstract
- 5.1: Compiling metadata
- 5.2: Quality control of metadata
- 5.3: Stratifying metadata
- 5.4: Processing the data
- 5.5: Illustrating the data
- 5.6: Concluding remarks
- 6: Conducting a SUHI study
- Abstract
- 6.1: Preparing the study
- 6.2: Planning the study
- 6.3: Important considerations
- 6.4: Analysis, interpretation, and presentation
- 6.5: Concluding remarks
- 7: Final thoughts
- Abstract
- Selected readings
- Index
- No. of pages: 182
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: May 24, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128150177
- eBook ISBN: 9780128156902
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Iain D. Stewart
Iain D. Stewart is a Research Fellow at the Global Cities Institute, University of Toronto, Canada. He has two decades of experience in heat island research and has taught courses in urban climatology to engineers and architects. The mainstay of his work is both a critical analysis of heat island studies globally and the development of scientific standards for assessing urban temperature effects at the local scale. A major output of his work is the widely used Local Climate Zone classification system. For his advances in the field, Iain has twice received the William P. Lowry Memorial Award from the International Association for Urban Climate (IAUC).
Affiliations and expertise
Global Cities Institute, University of Toronto, CanadaGM
Gerald Mills
Gerald Mills is an Associate Professor in the School of Geography at University College Dublin, Ireland. He has three decades of experience in urban climatology and is a co-author of a modern textbook (Urban Climates) on the field. His work focuses on the development of an urban climate science that has a coherent body of knowledge and associated tools to enable its application to cities globally. He is a former President of the International Association for Urban Climates (IAUC) and of the Geographical Society of Ireland.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, School of Geography, University College Dublin, Dublin, IrelandRead The Urban Heat Island on ScienceDirect