Urban Climate Change and Heat Islands

Characterization, Impacts, and Mitigation
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-0-12-818977-1
Verlag: William Andrew Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 330 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 570 g

Urban Climate Change and Heat Islands: Characterization, Impacts, and Mitigation serves as a go to reference for a foundational understanding of urban-climate drivers and impacts. Through the book's comprehensive chapters, the authors help readers identify problems associated with urban climate change, along with potential solutions. Global case studies are included and presented in a way in which they become globally relevant to any urban or intra-urban environment. The authors call on their extensive experience to present and explore methodologies and approaches to quantifying urban-heat mitigation measures in a clear manner, focusing on heat islands, urban overheating and effects on air quality.

Zielgruppe

Atmospheric sciences, urban environment, urban climatology, public health

Autoren/Hrsg.

Paolini, Riccardo

Santamouris, Mattheos

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Urban Climate Change: Reasons, Magnitude, Impact and Mitigation 2. Experimental and Monitoring Techniques to Map and Document Urban Climate Change 3. Synergies and exacerbation: Effects of warmer weather and climate change 4. Macro, Meso, and Micro-scale Simulation Techniques to Document Urban Climate Change 5. Urban overheating: Energy, Environmental and heat-health implications 6. Fighting Urban Climate Change: State of the Art of Mitigation Technologies 7. Environmental Energy and Health Impact of Urban Mitigation

Über Autor(innen)

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

Paolini, Riccardo
Riccardo Paolini is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Built Environment at the University of New South Wales. In 2011, he received his PhD from Politecnico di Milano, Italy. His main research interests concern building physics and its applications to the design of buildings and urban envelopes towards the design of resilient built environments. Further, he investigates the mutual influence between buildings – and their energy needs – and the urban microclimate. Riccardo has been bridging urban heat studies and heat and moisture transport in building materials and components and researched extensively the performance over time of building envelope materials for heat mitigation.