Scientific research on Urban heat islands (UHI) and urban. overheating has set new
challenges for societies regarding risk and vulnerabilities, energy demands and mitigation …

Scenario techniques are a teeming field in energy and environmental research and decision
making. This Thematic Issue (TI) highlights quantitative (computational) methods that …

This paper explores potential future land use/cover (LUC) dynamics in the Attica region,
Greece, under three distinct economic performance scenarios. During the last decades …

Human exposure to dangerous heat, driven by climatic and demographic changes, is
increasing worldwide. Being located in hot regions and showing high rates of urban …

Urban development is a process that becomes increasingly complex as the city evolves and
in which unexpected events can happen which may alter the envisaged trend over time. To …

Smart growth policy has been identified as a panacea to tackle a range of undesirable
outcomes of sprawl development. Various neighbourhood planning concepts have been …

The temporal non-stationarity of land use and cover change (LUCC) processes is one of the
main sources of uncertainty that may influence the calibration and the validation of spatial …

Urbanization and agricultural intensification are the main drivers of biodiversity losses
through multiple stressors, especially habitat fragmentation, isolation and loss. Designing …

Rapid urbanization combined with climate change necessitates new types of urban services
that make best use of science and technology. The Integrated Urban Hydro-Meteorological …

Uncertainties in our understanding of current and future climate change projections, impacts
and vulnerabilities are structured by scientists using scenarios, which are generally in …