Adapting to Urban Heat: Strategies and Tools for Resilience in Low Carbon Cities

Adapting to Urban Heat: Strategies and Tools for Resilience in Low Carbon Cities provides a comprehensive and rigorous examination of the issues associated with adapting to climate change and building urban resilience. The editors have gathered an impressive team of authors to examine the implications of urban heat, tools for decoding and coding urban heat, and design strategies for adapting to urban heat. These experts explore the issue from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, encompassing environmental engineering, climate change, ecology, data science, and architectural design. This reference is an essential resource for researchers and practitioners working in environmental science and climate change who are interested in building more resilient and sustainable cities. An interdisciplinary approach to the study and understanding of urban heat islandsEvidence-based strategies to for adapting to climate change and building urban resilienceA critical assessment of the role data science and GIS technologies play in climate change and urban planning INDICE: PART 1: INTRODUCTION1. A Rough Ride to Urban Resilience: Challenges and Design Opportunities in the Age of Climate ChangePART 2: UNDERSTANDING URBAN HEAT AND ITS IMPLICATIONS2. Understanding Urban Heat within the Climate Change Realm.3. Anticipatory Resilience in Urban and Architectural Design for Climate Change, Ecology, Health, and Decarbonization4. Assessing the Costs and Benefits of Adaptation Strategies from an Economic PerspectivePART 3: TOOLS FOR DECODING AND CODING URBAN HEAT5. The Role of Data Science in Developing Low-Carbon Cities with Improved Urban Heat Mitigation6. Evaluating the Performance of Urban Heat Adaptation Strategy Measures Using Remote Sensing and GIS Technologies7. Urban Heat Mitigation: Multiscale Modelling Techniques and Experimental MonitoringPART 4: DESIGN FOR ADAPTING TO URBAN HEAT8. Urban Heat Adaptation through Improved Architectural Energy-Efficiency9. Harnessing the Power of Nature: Adaptation through Nature-Based Solutions10. Adapting Urban Microclimates and Enhancing User Comfort: Strategies for Heat at the Neighborhood Scale11. Modelling the Effect of Urban Form and Morphology on Local Climate and Heat Island IntensityPART 5: CONCLUSION12. Conclusions

• ISBN: 978-0-443-28977-4
• Editorial: Elsevier
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 250
• Fecha Publicación: 01/02/2025
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés