Global Urban Heat Island Mitigation

<p>1. Mapping and management of urban shade assets: a novel approach for promoting climatic urban action<br>2. Vulnerability to the urban heat islands effect in the Global North and the Global South: assessment of the drivers and mitigation strategies<br>3. Luminescence for the built environment: from lighting to urban heat island mitigation purposes<br>4. Urban heat island: land cover changes, management, and mitigation strategies<br>5. Use of landscape metrics for the mitigation of the surface urban heat island effect in Mediterranean cities<br>6. Effects of land use composition and pattern on land surface temperature: an urban heat island study in the megacities of Scotland, UK, using time series of landsat TM/ETM D data<br>7. Urban heat island mitigation and adaptation in China: policies and practices<br>8. Climatic control of outdoor spaces in the Universal Exposition 1992 (EXPO’92)<br>9. Open space and built form metrics: identification and implementation of strategies to mitigate UHI in tropical climates<br>10. StEMAIRF-BGI as a tool for UHI mitigation using land use planning and designing<br>11. Urban heat island effect in India: assessment, impacts, and mitigation<br>12. Urban heat island in Latin American cities: a review of trends, impacts, and mitigation strategies<br>13. Air quality and heat-related health impacts of increasing urban greenery cover<br>14. Visualization of landuse change pattern and its impact on Urban Heat Islands<br>15. Surface urban heat islands in 33 medium-sized cities across different climates in Chile<br>16. Investigating the intra-urban urban heat island effect for two subtropical mega-urban regions in China by adopting local climate zone<br>17. Impact of urban cool strategies on energy performance of HVAC systems in a dense urban district of a Mediterranean city, Beirut, Lebanon</p>