Adapting to Urban Heat:
Strategies and Tools for Ecology, Decarbonization and Health
Samenvatting
As global temperatures rise, urban areas face unprecedented challenges from intensified heat. “Adapting to Urban Heat” offers a comprehensive exploration of design strategies and tools essential for building resilience in low-carbon cities.
The book covers the following topics:
• Setting the stage for urban heat adaptation: An introduction to the pressing need for adaptive measures in urban environments.
• Understanding, mitigating, and adapting to urban overheating: Insights into the impacts of urban heat and the latest mitigation technologies, including the interplay between advanced materials, nature, buildings, and human behavior.
• Designing for urban heat adaptation: Practical design strategies aimed at enhancing microclimates and user comfort at the neighborhood scale, with a focus on the relationship between urban forms and greenery.
• Tools for decoding and coding urban heat: An examination of data science, urban meteorological networks, remote sensing, GIS applications, and modeling techniques that inform effective heat adaptation strategies
Specificaties
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1. Summary of contents
2. Adapting to heat
Part 2: UNDERSTANDING, MITIGATING AND ADAPTING TO URBAN OVERHEATING
3. Urban Overheating. Impacts and Heat Mitigation Technologies
4. Understanding Anticipatory Resilience in Urban and Architectural Design for Climate Change, Ecology, Health, and Decarbonization
Part 3: DESIGNING FOR URBAN HEAT ADAPTATION
5. Design for Adapting Urban Microclimates and Enhancing User Comfort: Strategies for Heat at the Neighbourhood Scale
6. Understanding the Interrelationships between Buildings, Urban Spaces, and Climate Change
7. Understanding and Measuring the Cooling Performance of Trees
Part 4: TOOLS FOR DECODING AND CODING URBAN HEAT
8. The role of data science in developing heat-resilient communities
9. From Urban Meteorological Networks to Adaptation in Amsterdam, Ghent, and Novi Sad
10. The Role of Using Remote Sensing Evaluating Urban Heat Adaptation Strategies Measures
11. Multiscale Modelling Techniques and Experimental Monitoring of Heat
12. Adapting to urban heat – On the use of urban weather files for assessing buildings’ overheating
Part 5: TOWARDS A REGENERATIVE FUTURE
13. Conclusions