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Urban Climate Change and Heat Islands

Characterization, Impacts, and Mitigation

  • 1st Edition - November 14, 2022
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Riccardo Paolini, Mattheos Santamouris
  • Language: English

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 impact… Read more

Description

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.

Key features

  • Includes global case studies that demonstrate how to design and implement urban-heat mitigation measures that are area-specific and effective, under both current climate and future conditions
  • Provides an overview of urban parameterizations in models leading to an improved understating of intra-urban climate variability drivers
  • Assesses potential heat and air-quality health impacts of excessive heat events and changes in local urban climates

Readership

Atmospheric sciences, urban environment, urban climatology, public health

Table of contents

1. Urban Climate Change: Reasons, Magnitude, Impact and Mitigation
Mat Santamouris

2. Experimental and Monitoring Techniques to Map and Document Urban Climate Change
Riccardo Paolini

3. Synergies and exacerbation: Effects of warmer weather and climate change
Hassan Khan; Mat Santamouris; Riccardo Paolini

4. Macro, Meso, and Micro-scale Simulation Techniques to Document Urban Climate Change
Negin Nazarian; Mathew Lipson; Leslie Keith Norford

5. Urban overheating: Energy, Environmental and heat-health implications
Mat Santamouris

6. Fighting Urban Climate Change: State of the Art of Mitigation Technologies
Jie Feng, Shamila Haddad; Kai Gao; Samira Garshasbi; Giulia Ulpiani; Mattheos Santamouris; Gianluca Ranzi; Carlos Bartesaghi-Koc

7. Environmental Energy and Health Impact of Urban Mitigation
Mat Santamouris

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 14, 2022
  • Language: English

About the editors

RP

Riccardo Paolini

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.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Built Environment, University of New South Wales, Australia

MS

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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