The Urban Heat Island

Author:   Iain D. Stewart (Global Cities Institute, University of Toronto, Canada) ,  Gerald Mills (Associate Professor, School of Geography, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland)
Publisher:   Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
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9780128150177


Pages:   182
Publication Date:   24 May 2021
Format:   Paperback
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The Urban Heat Island


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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 around the different types of UHI and their assessment. The Urban Heat Island—A Guidebook provides simple instructions for measuring and analysing the phenomenon, as well as greater context for defining the UHI and the impacts it can have. Readers will be empowered to work within a set of guidelines that enable direct comparison of UHI effects across diverse settings, while informing a wide range of climate mitigation and adaptation programs to modify human behaviour and the built form. This opens the door to true global assessments of local climate change in cities. Urban planning and design strategies can then be evaluated for their effectiveness at mitigating these changes.

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Author:   Iain D. Stewart (Global Cities Institute, University of Toronto, Canada) ,  Gerald Mills (Associate Professor, School of Geography, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland)
Publisher:   Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Imprint:   Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Weight:   0.320kg
ISBN:  

9780128150177


ISBN 10:   0128150173
Pages:   182
Publication Date:   24 May 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. The physical basis of the UHI 2. UHI management 3. Planning a CUHI study 4. Executing a CUHI study 5. Conducting a surface UHI study 6. Conclusions

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Iain D. Stewart is a Research Fellow at the Global Cities Institute, University of Toronto, Canada. He has two decades of experience in heat island research and has taught courses in urban climatology to engineers and architects. The mainstay of his work is both a critical analysis of heat island studies globally and the development of scientific standards for assessing urban temperature effects at the local scale. A major output of his work is the widely used Local Climate Zone classification system. For his advances in the field, Iain has twice received the William P. Lowry Memorial Award from the International Association for Urban Climate (IAUC). Gerald Mills is an Associate Professor in the School of Geography at University College Dublin, Ireland. He has three decades of experience in urban climatology and is a co-author of a modern textbook (Urban Climates) on the field. His work focuses on the development of an urban climate science that has a coherent body of knowledge and associated tools to enable its application to cities globally. He is a former President of the International Association for Urban Climates (IAUC) and of the Geographical Society of Ireland.

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