Counteracting Urban Heat Island Effects in a Global Climate Change Scenario

Urban heat islands are a new type of microclimatic phenomenon that causes a significant increase in the temperature of cities compared to surrounding areas. The phenomenon has been enforced by the current trend towards climate change. Although experts consider urban heat islands an urgent European Union public health concern, there are too few policies that address it. The EU carried out a project to learn more about this phenomenon through pilot initiatives. The pilots included feasibility studies and strategies for appropriately altering planning rules and governance to tackle the problem of urban heat islands. The pilots were carried out in eight metropolitan areas: Bologna/Modena, Budapest, Ljubljana, Lodz, Prague, Stuttgart, Venice/Padova, and Vienna. The feasibility studies carried out in these pilot areas focused on the specific morphology of EU urban areas, which are often characterised by the presence of historical old towns.

List of contents

Part I The Urban Heat Island - Evidence, Measures andTools.- Forecasting Models for Urban Warming in Climate Change.- AssessmentIndication and Gold Standard.- Methodologies for UHI Analysis.- DecisionSupport Systems for Urban Planning.- Part II Pilot Actions in European Cities.-Counteracting Urban Heat Islands: Solutions for European Cities.         

Product details

• Assisted by: Francesco Musco (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.09.2016
• EAN: 9783319104249
• ISBN: 978-3-31-910424-9
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 244 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 872 g
• Illustrations: LIII, 400 p. 213 illus., 181 illus. in color.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences; B, Climate Change, The environment, Physics, Earth and Environmental Science, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Energy technology & engineering, Meteorology and climatology, Geographical information systems & remote sensing, Geographical Information System, Environmental Sciences, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Energy Efficiency, Remote sensing, Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry, Applied and Technical Physics, Applied physics, Climate Sciences, Geographical information systems and remote sensing