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2021
Cities often experience a climate phenomenon known as the urban heat island, where the built form, building materials, and lack of vegetation modify temperature, wind, rain, and humidity. Radiating heat from building materials, roads, and utilities form a dome of warm air where the transfer of heated air to and from building surfaces doesn’t allow for ...
Gail Hansen, Joseli Macedo
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Cities often experience a climate phenomenon known as the urban heat island, where the built form, building materials, and lack of vegetation modify temperature, wind, rain, and humidity. Radiating heat from building materials, roads, and utilities form a dome of warm air where the transfer of heated air to and from building surfaces doesn’t allow for ...
Gail Hansen, Joseli Macedo
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Urban Climate Imaginaries and Climate Urbanism
2020Urban climate imaginaries are narratives about cities of the present and future that define policy expectations in a political environment increasingly shaped by climate change. This chapter examines the urban climate imaginaries contained in the policy discourse of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).
Linda Westman, Vanesa Castán Broto
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2019
Since the 1990s, a burgeoning literature has emerged on the politics and governance of urban climate. It is now evident that urban responses to climate change involve a diverse range of actors as well as forms of agency that cross traditional boundaries, and which have diverse consequences for (dis)empowering different social groups. This book provides
Jeroen van der Heijden +2 more
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Since the 1990s, a burgeoning literature has emerged on the politics and governance of urban climate. It is now evident that urban responses to climate change involve a diverse range of actors as well as forms of agency that cross traditional boundaries, and which have diverse consequences for (dis)empowering different social groups. This book provides
Jeroen van der Heijden +2 more
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Urban Climates and Urban Climate Modelling: An Introduction
1995In this chapter, an overview is given of flow over uniformly rough boundaries, with special applications to urban areas. We distinguish two different types of boundary layer flows typical for different meteorological situations, and with different applications in urban wind studies.
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Nexus of Urban Climate and Urban Design
Cities are challenged by many problems, where problems related to urban climates are very critical. However, existing efforts in both academia and industries are not enough to close the gaps among urban climate science, mitigation and adaptation strategies, and planning and design practices. This pushes relevant stakeholders to deepen basic and appliedHe, Baojie +2 more
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2013
Urbanization is a major factor across Asia and the Pacific, and so the scope of this chapter is somewhat restricted. There is a focus on larger urban areas, as the small communities of rural areas are discussed in other chapters. The breadth of the topic of urbanization also means that reports by government agencies and NGOs (grey literature) are cited,
Peter Marcotullio +2 more
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Urbanization is a major factor across Asia and the Pacific, and so the scope of this chapter is somewhat restricted. There is a focus on larger urban areas, as the small communities of rural areas are discussed in other chapters. The breadth of the topic of urbanization also means that reports by government agencies and NGOs (grey literature) are cited,
Peter Marcotullio +2 more
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The Study on Urban Climate of Lanzhou
2006 IEEE International Symposium on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2006Based on the meteorological data sequence of Lanzhou city and circumjacent regions, and experimental data in urban area, data of climate factors were analyzed. The results are as follows: Temperature variation is divided into three stages in near 70 years; the early 1950's and the early 1980's are the jump points of Lanzhou urban climate during this ...
Nai-Ang Wang +3 more
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Urban Biodiversity and Climate Change
2014Urban biodiversity refers to the variety and variability among living organisms found in a city and the ecological systems in which they occur. Overall, urban biodiversity responds to a combination of biogeographic and anthropogenic factors, with a strong influence of the latter. In a rapidly urbanizing world under the pressing threat of climate change,
Puppim De Oliveira, Jose Antonio; id_orcid 0000-0001-5000-6265 +3 more
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Biometeorological studies on urban climate
International Journal of Biometeorology, 1997Urban-biometeorology, i.e., biometeorological study on the urban climate is regarded as both old and/or new science. Studies on two topics are reviewed: the thermal or chemical impact of urban climate on human health, and the relation between urban climate and vegetation.
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