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Urban heat typologies: impact of heatwaves on urban built environment and heat stress risk to the elderly in Darmstadt, Germany

City and Environment Interactions
Climate change has made heatwaves common during German summers. The phenomenon of urban heat islands (UHIs) only worsens the adverse effects of heatwaves, especially for the elderly, defined as population aged 65+ for this study.
Avikal Somvanshi, Joachim Schulze, Shahrzad Talebsafa   +2 more
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Minimising Urban Overheating with Courtyard Design

, 2023
In this master’s thesis, the relation between courtyard design and summertime overheating of urban environments in the Finnish context is explored. Different design solutions to create thermally comfortable courtyards during summer months were examined through literature review and a data analysis from locally collected temperature and relative ...
openaire   +1 more source

Shelters or ecological traps? Context‐dependent effects of nestboxes on breeding success in a colonial raptor

Ibis, EarlyView.
Artificial breeding structures, such as nestboxes, can potentially influence the population size and conservation status of bird species relying on heavily human‐modified environments such as agroecosystems and urban areas. However, the effectiveness of these interventions may vary, as artificial structures could attract individuals to suboptimal ...
Alejandro Corregidor‐Castro, Alessandro Berlusconi, Jacopo G. Cecere, Sara Cioccarelli, Claudia De Battisti, Andrea Romano, Diego Rubolini, Andrea Pilastro, Michelangelo Morganti   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Thermal Safety Margins and Peak Leaf Temperatures Predict Vulnerability of Diverse Plant Species to an Experimental Heatwave

Plant, Cell &Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Extreme heat can push plants beyond their thermal safety margin (TSM) if maximum leaf temperature (Tleaf_max) exceeds leaf critical temperature (Tcrit). The TSM is potentially useful for assessing heat vulnerability across species but needs further validation, so we exposed 50 tree/shrub species in controlled glasshouses to a 6‐day heatwave ...
Diana Cox, Renée M. Marchin, David S. Ellsworth, Agnieszka Wujeska‐Klause, Alessandro Ossola, Kristine Y. Crous, Michelle R. Leishman, Paul D. Rymer, Mark G. Tjoelker   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dwelling overheating in risk in cool climates: Assessing the risk in the context of retrofit and climate change in Ireland

Indoor Environments
In the context of large-scale retrofit and the predicted impacts of climate change, overheating risk in dwellings in cool climates is an increasing cause for concern.
M. Mulville, S. Harrington, C. Li, K. Raushan, E. Essien-Thompson, C. Ahern   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

A climate‐sensitive tropical urbanism under extreme heat†

Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, EarlyView.
Tropical urban dwellers face twin climate challenges that impinge on their quality of life: climate overheating and the urban heat island (UHI). The latter superimposed on the former to lead to high levels of thermal discomfort, carbon and energy consequences.
Rohinton Emmanuel
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating the potential of persistent luminescence in counteracting urban overheating

Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Abstract In recent years, the use of numerical simulations to model real atmospheric conditions over cities has become increasingly popular. One of the primary objectives of these models is to assess the efficacy of various strategies for mitigating the Urban Heat Island (UHI) phenomenon.
Chiatti, Chiara, Fabiani, Claudia, Bou-Zeid, Elie, PISELLO, ANNA LAURA   +3 more
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Urban heat mitigation by green and blue infrastructure: Drivers, effectiveness, and future needs

The Innovation
The combination of urbanization and global warming leads to urban overheating and compounds the frequency and intensity of extreme heat events due to climate change.
Prashant Kumar, Sisay E. Debele, Soheila Khalili, Christos H. Halios, Jeetendra Sahani, Nasrin Aghamohammadi, Maria de Fatima Andrade, Maria Athanassiadou, Kamaldeep Bhui, Nerea Calvillo, Shi-Jie Cao, Frederic Coulon, Jill L. Edmondson, David Fletcher, Edmilson Dias de Freitas, Hai Guo, Matthew C. Hort, Madhusudan Katti, Thomas Rodding Kjeldsen, Steffen Lehmann, Giuliano Maselli Locosselli, Shelagh K. Malham, Lidia Morawska, Rajan Parajuli, Christopher D.F. Rogers, Runming Yao, Fang Wang, Jannis Wenk, Laurence Jones   +28 more
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Exploring the Role of Energy Consumption and Labour Productivity in Understanding the Effects of Climate Change on International Trade

The World Economy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate change can influence international trade through several mechanisms, including infrastructure damage, disruptions to energy systems and reductions in labour productivity. Recent evidence for the United States also suggests that energy consumption responses play a central role in transmitting the real effects of natural disasters. Using
Alejandra Martínez‐Martínez, Silviano Esteve‐Pérez, Salvador Gil‐Pareja, Rafael Llorca‐Vivero   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spatiotemporal variation in urban overheating magnitude and its association with synoptic air-masses in a coastal city. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2021
Khan HS, Santamouris M, Kassomenos P, Paolini R, Caccetta P, Petrou I.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source