Mitigation and Adaptation of Urban Overheating

The Impact of Warmer Cities on Climate, Energy, Health, Environmental Quality, Economy, and Quality of Life

Nasrin Aghamohammadi editor Mattheos Santamouris editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Elsevier - Health Sciences Division

Published:21st Mar '24

Should be back in stock very soon

Mitigation and Adaptation of Urban Overheating cover

Provides a fully organized, comprehensive, and holistic analysis of the impact of urban overheating, mitigation, and adaptation on energy, health, environmental quality, survivability, quality of life, and economy Mitigation and Adaptation of Urban Overheating aims to analyze and present all existing relative studies to investigate the global magnitude and characteristics of the ambient temperature drop and the reduction of the heat burden resulting from modified climate conditions due to the implementation of urban mitigation and adaptation technologies and policies. This book will discuss urban overheating, urban heat mitigation, governance, anthropogenic heat emissions, adaptation and adaptation technologies, and their impacts on urban environmental quality, urban health, energy supply and demand, low-income and aged populations, and the economy of cities. This book incorporates recent developments on urban climatology, urban overheating, mitigation, and adaptation technologies.

ISBN: 9780443135026

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 450g

380 pages