Optimizing urban housing design: Improving thermo-energy performance and mitigating heat emissions from buildings–A Latin American case study

RE López-Guerrero, AS Cruz, T Hong, M Carpio - Urban Climate, 2024 - Elsevier
This study investigates the influence of urban heat islands (UHI) on buildings and explores
passive design strategies to improve thermo-energy performance while mitigating heat …

How to Make Cities Get across “The Valley of Death”? Exploring the Ecological Index System and Index Correlation of Green Cities

X Zhuang, Y Xie - Systems, 2023 - mdpi.com
Disasters caused by climate change are continuing around the world. Densely populated
urban areas have been pushed to the forefront of global climate change, and ecological …

Turning up the heat on public health: Adapting to extreme temperatures in Latin America and the Caribbean

M Yglesias-González, A Díaz, W Dunbar - PLOS Climate, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Rising global temperatures are an urgent challenge for Latin America and the Caribbean
(LAC), a region highly vulnerable to climate change and natural variability such as El Niño …

Higher urban heat hazard in wealthier neighborhoods in the Global South

TC Chakraborty - 2024 - researchsquare.com
Urbanization leads to local warming in addition to background climate change, which
disproportionately impacts society due to the high population densities of cities. Scientific …

San Joaquin Valley Health & Air Quality II: Assessing Urban Heat Island Distribution and its Intersections with Air Quality to Understand Converging Vulnerabilities

S Rousseau, G Colombo, TC Padua, C Gomez - 2024 - ntrs.nasa.gov
The city of Stockton, California, located within the San Joaquin Valley (SJV), is a major hub
for agricultural production and has endured the continuous threat to community health from …