2007−2020 Bari - NBS for greening the urban space Bari, Italy/local Improve urban quality, improve green areas, reduce the urban heat island effect and manage storm water Health benefits; UHI mitigation; air purification; restoration and maintenance of habitats and biodiversity; waterflow regulati...
which radiate absorbed solar energy as heat. Urban vegetation mitigates the urban heat island effect by replacing or shading impervious surface as well as through the cooling effect ofevapotranspiration, the transfer of water vapor from soils and plants to the air. Multiple studies have linked satell...
Urban social–ecological–technological systems (SETS) are dynamic and respond to climate pressures. Change involves alterations to land and resource management, social organization, infrastructure, and design. Research often focuses on how climate chang
B. How to make a city climate-proof, addressing the urban heat island effect. Resour. Conserv. Recycl. 64, 30–38 (2012). 60. Africa, J., Heerwagen, J., Loftness, V. & Ryan Balagtas, C. Biophilic design and Climate Change: performance parameters for health. Front. Built Environ. ...
Additionally, heat waves are often exacerbated over populous regions due to urban heat island effects (Ramamurthy et al., 2017; Zhao et al., 2017). Global warming from increasing greenhouse gasses has and will continue to increase heat wave hazards. Increases in heat wave frequency, duration, ...
Limiting runoff has the obvious effect of reducing flooding, but also means our urban pollutants (mostly nitrates and sulfates) can be processed by soil bacteria and rendered harmless before they reach natural waterways. When land is covered by deep, porous, biologically active soil, streams are ...
First, the case of the urban heat transition (heat grid) and climate change adaptation measures is presented. Second, the case of using livestock manure to produce biogas and reduce nitrogen emissions is presented. Table 1 The energy source, physical implications and context of application of ...
Most researchers believed that the light-absorbing material in urban atmospheres did not travel very far from their source. Models of the atmospheric aerosol either ignored absorbing par- ticles (Toon and Pollack 1976) or assumed that they occurred only in urban aerosols (Shettle and Fenn 1979)....
these parts, the observed differences are easily confused with an urbanheat islandeffect. The same confusion arises with precipitation events. Passive control over weather effects is also possible through pre-processing of field data, such that all temperatures measured during frontal, nonstationary, ...
Use of landscape metrics for the mitigation of the surface urban heat island effect in Mediterranean cities 3.2 Land use Land use data from the Urban Atlas of the European Environmental Agency (European Union, 2018) were used in order to classify the study areas into eight major urban land use...