Adapting to Urban Heat: by Galán Marín, Carmen; Naboni, Emanuele; Rivera Gómez, Carlos;

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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 book's 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. Sections 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.

• 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

Table of Contents:

Part 1 Setting the stage for urban heat adaptation
Emanuele Naboni, Carlos Rivera Gmez, Carmen Galan-Marin and
Mat Santamouris
1. Adapting to heat
1.1 Adapting to heat
1.2 The professional gap in adapting to urban heat
1.3 Adapting to heat
1.4 From mitigation to regenerative adaptation
1.5 Adaptive ecology
1.6 Carbon
1.7 Adaptive health
References
Part 2 Understanding, mitigating and adapting to urban overheating
M. Santamouris and K. Vasilakopoulou
2. Urban overheating: impacts and heat mitigation technologies
2.1 Introduction
2.2 The impact of urban overheating
2.3 Future urban climate and impact
2.4 Heat mitigation technologies
2.5 Conclusions and proposals
References
3. Understanding anticipatory resilience in urban and architectural design for climate change, ecology, health, and decarbonization
Emanuele Naboni
3.1 Adapting ecology to prevent the phytogenic heat island
3.2 Adapting decarbonization by recoupling
3.3 People adapt to heat
References
Part 3 Designing for urban heat adaptation
Marialena Nikolopoulou
4. Design for adapting urban microclimates and enhancing user comfort: strategies for heat at the neighborhood scale
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Urbanization and microclimate
4.3 Thermal materiality
4.4 Adaptation and climate-responsive design
4.5 Conclusions
References
Further reading
5. Understanding the interrelationships between urban spaces and buildings, within overheating cities
Agnese Salvati and Massimo Palme
5.1 Introduction
5.2 The climate of urban landscapes
5.3 Climate and energy interactions at the building-street scale
5.4 Synergies between urban warming and climate change
5.5 Adaptation and mitigation measures: counteracting urban heat island
5.6 Reducing building cooling demand and anthropogenic heat generation
5.7 Summary for practitioners and actionable points
5.8 Conclusion
References
Further reading
6. Understanding and measuring the cooling performance of trees
Daniela Maiullari, René van der Velde, Saskia de Wit, Michiel Pouderoijen and Marjolein van Esch
6.1 The role of urban forests as cooling devices for adapting to urban heat
6.2 Cooling mechanisms of tree
6.3 Key cooling factors of urban forests
6.4 Methods and protocols to measure tree/nature-based solutions cooling performance
6.5 Conclusions
References
Part 4 Tools for decoding and coding urban heat
Jesus Lizana, Patrick Fahr, Nethmi Jayaratne Kariyawasam, Patricia Vargas,
Miguel Nez-Peir and Radhika Khosla
7. The role of data science in developing heat-resilient
communities
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Data on heat-related climate hazards
7.3 Data on exposure
7.4 Quantification and prediction of heat-related vulnerability and risk through data science
7.5 Discussion of challenges and opportunities
7.6 Conclusions
Acknowledgments
References
8. From urban meteorological networks to adaptation in
Amsterdam, Ghent, and Novi Sad
Dragan Milosevic, Gert-Jan Steeneveld, Stevan Savic and Steven Caluwaerts
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Methodology, databases, and tools
8.3 Urban heat islands across cities
8.4 Adaptation strategies, practical applications, and takeaways
8.5 Future plans for urban heat adaptation
8.6 Conclusions
Acknowledgments
References
9. The role of using remote sensing evaluating urban heat adaptation strategies measures
Antonio Serrano-Jimnez, Javier Sola-Caraballo, Carmen Daz-Lopez and Jorge Roa-Fernndez
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Remote sensing sources for obtaining urban satellite images
9.3 Usefulness of geographic information systems and local climatic zones to locate hotspots
9.4 Methodology
9.5 Results and discussion
9.6 Conclusions
References
10. Multiscale modeling techniques and experimental monitoring of heat
Victoria Patricia Lopez-Cabeza, Eduardo Diz-Mellado, Carmen Galan-Marin and Carlos Rivera Gmez
10.1 Introduction
10.2 State of the art
10.3 Multiscale case studies description: different approaches
10.4 Discussion
10.5 Conclusions
References
11. Adapting to urban heaton the use of urban weather files for assessing buildings overheating
Miguel Nez-Peir, Javier Neila and Snchez-Guevara Carmen
11.1 Introduction
11.2 The role of weather files in urban heat analysis
11.3 Toward a definition of Urban Weather for Energy Calculations
11.4 Madrid as a case study
11.5 Conclusion
Part 5 Towards a regenerative future
Emanuele Naboni
12. Conclusions
12.1 Education, practice, and policy for heat
12.2 Theory for heat-adaptive design
12.3 A future approach to heat
12.4 Envisioning heat-adapted systems
12.5 Design to serve nature adaptation to heat
12.6 Toolset for heat management
12.7 A final message
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