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 for 200 years and, although it is an apparently simple phenomenon, there is considerable confusion a…
The book reviews and reports the recent progress and knowledge on the specific impact of current and projected urban overheating as well as of the urban mitigation technologies on mortality and morbidity and urban vulnerability. It presents recent data and developments on the to…
This book discusses the concepts and technologies associated with the mitigation of urban heat islands (UHIs) that are applicable in hot and humid regions. It presents several city case studies on how UHIs can be reduced in various areas to provide readers, researchers, and poli…
"This book provides the reader with an understanding of the impact that different morphologies, construction materials and green coverage solutions, have on the urban microclimate, thus affecting the comfort conditions of urban inhabitants and the energy needs of buildings in ur…
"This book provides the reader with an understanding of the impact that different morphologies, construction materials and green coverage solutions, have on the urban microclimate, thus affecting the comfort conditions of urban inhabitants and the energy needs of buildings in ur…
"This book provides the reader with an understanding of the impact that different morphologies, construction materials and green coverage solutions, have on the urban microclimate, thus affecting the comfort conditions of urban inhabitants and the energy needs of buildings in ur…
"This comprehensive book brings together the latest information about heat islands and their mitigation. Heat island formation and the problems they cause, mitigation technologies and their benefits and policies, and actions for cooling communities are described in full. The aut…
"This comprehensive book brings together the latest information about heat islands and their mitigation. Heat island formation and the problems they cause, mitigation technologies and their benefits and policies, and actions for cooling communities are described in full. The aut…
'An excellent scientific book and a very useful source of knowledge. The author has succeeded in describing in a very comprehensive way all the recent scientific developments in this very important subject. The reader will be fully informed on the causes of heat islands the scie…