Adapting to urban heat : strategies and tools for ecology, decarbonization and health /

"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: Settin...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors:	Galán Marín, Carmen (Editor), Rivera-Gómez, Carlos (Editor), Naboni, Emanuele (Editor), Santamouris, M. (Matheos), 1956- (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam, Netherlands ; London, United Kingdom ; Cambridge, MA : Elsevier, 2026.
Subjects:	Architecture and climate. Sustainable urban development. Urban climatology. Urban heat island. Sustainable buildings > Design and construction. Architecture et climat. Urbanisme durable. Climatologie urbaine. Îlots de chaleur urbains. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Adapting to heat / Emanuele Naboni, Carlos Rivera-Gómez, Carmen Galán-Marín and Matthaios Santamouris
Urban overheating: impacts and heat mitigation technologies / Matthaios Santamouris and Konstantina Vasilakopoulou
Anticipatory adaptation in climate change times / Emanuele Naboni
Adapting to the heat and enhancing user comfort outdoors: climate-responsive strategies and social implications / Marialena Nikolopoulou
Understanding the interrelationships between urban spaces and buildings, within overheating cities / Agnese Salvati and Massimo Palme
Understanding and measuring the cooling performance of trees / Daniela Maiullari, René van der Velde, Saskia de Wit, Michiel Pouderoijen and Marjolein van Esch
The role of data science in developing heat-resilient communities / Jesus Lizana, Patrick Fahr, Nethmi Jayaratne Kariyawasam, Patricia San-Nicolás Vargas, Miguel Núñez-Peiró and Radhika Khosla
From urban meteorological networks to adaptation in Amsterdam, Ghent, and Novi Sad / Dragan Milosevic, Gert-Jan Steeneveld, Stevan Savic and Steven Caluwaerts
The role of using remote sensing evaluating urban heat adaptation strategies measures / Antonio Serrano-Jiménez, Javier Sola-Caraballo, Carmen Díaz-López and Jorge Roa-Fernández
Multiscale modelling techniques and experimental monitoring of heat / Victoria Patricia Lopez-Cabeza, Eduardo Diz-Mellado, Carmen Galán-Marín and Carlos Rivera-Gómez
Adapting to urban heat: on the use of urban weather files for assessing buildings' overheating / Miguel Núñez-Peiró, Javier Neila and Carmen Sánchez-Guevara
Education-practice-policy and tool for heat-adapting / Emanuele Naboni.