Adapting to Urban Heat:
Strategies and Tools for Ecology, Decarbonization and Health
- 1st Edition - November 5, 2025
- Latest edition
- Editors: Carmen Galán Marín, Emanuele Naboni, Carlos Rivera Gómez, Mattheos Santamouris
- Language: English
As global temperatures rise, urban areas face unprecedented challenges from intensified heat. “Adapting to Urban Heat” offers a comprehensive exploration of design strategies… Read more
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Description
Description
As global temperatures rise, urban areas face unprecedented challenges from intensified heat. “Adapting to Urban Heat” offers a comprehensive exploration of design strategies and tools essential for building resilience in low-carbon cities.
The book covers the following topics:
• Setting the stage for urban heat adaptation: An introduction to the pressing need for adaptive measures in urban environments.
• Understanding, mitigating, and adapting to urban overheating: Insights into the impacts of urban heat and the latest mitigation technologies, including the interplay between advanced materials, nature, buildings, and human behavior.
• Designing for urban heat adaptation: Practical design strategies aimed at enhancing microclimates and user comfort at the neighborhood scale, with a focus on the relationship between urban forms and greenery.
• Tools for decoding and coding urban heat: An examination of data science, urban meteorological networks, remote sensing, GIS applications, and modeling techniques that inform effective heat adaptation strategies
The book covers the following topics:
• Setting the stage for urban heat adaptation: An introduction to the pressing need for adaptive measures in urban environments.
• Understanding, mitigating, and adapting to urban overheating: Insights into the impacts of urban heat and the latest mitigation technologies, including the interplay between advanced materials, nature, buildings, and human behavior.
• Designing for urban heat adaptation: Practical design strategies aimed at enhancing microclimates and user comfort at the neighborhood scale, with a focus on the relationship between urban forms and greenery.
• Tools for decoding and coding urban heat: An examination of data science, urban meteorological networks, remote sensing, GIS applications, and modeling techniques that inform effective heat adaptation strategies
Key features
Key features
- Provides an interdisciplinary approach to the study and understanding of urban heat islands
- Presents evidence-based strategies to for adapting to climate change and building urban resilience
- Includes a critical assessment of the role data science and GIS technologies play in climate change and urban planning
Readership
Readership
Interdisciplinary researchers, academics, post-graduate students, environmental engineers, and civil engineers working within Environmental Science and Climate Change
Table of contents
Table of contents
Part 1: SETTING THE STAGE FOR URBAN HEAT ADAPTATION
1. Summary of contents
2. Adapting to heat
Part 2: UNDERSTANDING, MITIGATING AND ADAPTING TO URBAN OVERHEATING
3. Urban Overheating. Impacts and Heat Mitigation Technologies
4. Understanding Anticipatory Resilience in Urban and Architectural Design for Climate Change, Ecology, Health, and Decarbonization
Part 3: DESIGNING FOR URBAN HEAT ADAPTATION
5. Design for Adapting Urban Microclimates and Enhancing User Comfort: Strategies for Heat at the Neighbourhood Scale
6. Understanding the Interrelationships between Buildings, Urban Spaces, and Climate Change
7. Understanding and Measuring the Cooling Performance of Trees
Part 4: TOOLS FOR DECODING AND CODING URBAN HEAT
8. The role of data science in developing heat-resilient communities
9. From Urban Meteorological Networks to Adaptation in Amsterdam, Ghent, and Novi Sad
10. The Role of Using Remote Sensing Evaluating Urban Heat Adaptation Strategies Measures
11. Multiscale Modelling Techniques and Experimental Monitoring of Heat
12. Adapting to urban heat – On the use of urban weather files for assessing buildings’ overheating
Part 5: TOWARDS A REGENERATIVE FUTURE
13. Conclusions
1. Summary of contents
2. Adapting to heat
Part 2: UNDERSTANDING, MITIGATING AND ADAPTING TO URBAN OVERHEATING
3. Urban Overheating. Impacts and Heat Mitigation Technologies
4. Understanding Anticipatory Resilience in Urban and Architectural Design for Climate Change, Ecology, Health, and Decarbonization
Part 3: DESIGNING FOR URBAN HEAT ADAPTATION
5. Design for Adapting Urban Microclimates and Enhancing User Comfort: Strategies for Heat at the Neighbourhood Scale
6. Understanding the Interrelationships between Buildings, Urban Spaces, and Climate Change
7. Understanding and Measuring the Cooling Performance of Trees
Part 4: TOOLS FOR DECODING AND CODING URBAN HEAT
8. The role of data science in developing heat-resilient communities
9. From Urban Meteorological Networks to Adaptation in Amsterdam, Ghent, and Novi Sad
10. The Role of Using Remote Sensing Evaluating Urban Heat Adaptation Strategies Measures
11. Multiscale Modelling Techniques and Experimental Monitoring of Heat
12. Adapting to urban heat – On the use of urban weather files for assessing buildings’ overheating
Part 5: TOWARDS A REGENERATIVE FUTURE
13. Conclusions
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: November 5, 2025
- Language: English
About the editors
About the editors
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Carmen Galán Marín
Professor Carmen Galán-Marín is a Full Professor in the Department of Building Technology at the University of Seville-Spain (Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de la Universidad de Sevilla).
Affiliations and expertise
Full Professor in the Department of Building Technology at the University of Seville-Spain (Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de la Universidad de Sevilla)EN
Emanuele Naboni
Professor Emanuele Naboni is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Seville, an Academic at the Norman Foster Institute, The Royal Danish Academy, and UNIPR. He consults internationally for urban and architectural firms.
Affiliations and expertise
Distinguished Professor at the University of Seville, an Academic at the Norman Foster Institute, The Royal Danish Academy, and UNIPRCR
Carlos Rivera Gómez
Professor Carlos Rivera-Gómez is a Full Professor in the Department of Building Construction at the University of Seville.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor in the Department of Building Construction at the University of SevilleMS
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, AustraliaView book on ScienceDirect
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