Urban heat island (UHI) variations within a city boundary: A systematic literature review

SW Kim, RD Brown - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Urban heat islands (UHI) in a city tend to vary with changes in time and space. To effectively
cope with the accelerating intensity of UHI due to global warming and the resulting damage …

Urban governance and the politics of climate change

VC Broto - World development, 2017 - Elsevier
Cities and urban areas are increasingly recognized as strategic arenas for climate change
action. Processes of urban governance addressing climate change reconfigure the politics …

Climate change increases global risk to urban forests

M Esperon-Rodriguez, MG Tjoelker, J Lenoir… - Nature Climate …, 2022 - nature.com
Climate change threatens the health and survival of urban trees and the various benefits
they deliver to urban inhabitants. Here, we show that 56% and 65% of species in 164 cities …

Land use/land cover change and its impact on surface urban heat island and urban thermal comfort in a metropolitan city

MW Naikoo, ARMT Islam, J Mallick, A Rahman - Urban Climate, 2022 - Elsevier
The increasing urban heat island intensity (UHII) is a matter of concern for the sustainable
urban planning and maintaining urban thermal comfort in the metropolitan cities of …

[HTML][HTML] Surface urban heat island intensity in five major cities of Bangladesh: Patterns, drivers and trends

A Dewan, G Kiselev, D Botje, GI Mahmud… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2021 - Elsevier
There is currently a lack of knowledge regarding the spatiotemporal variation of day and
night surface urban heat island intensity (SUHII) in the major cities of Bangladesh. These …

Co‐production in climate change research: reviewing different perspectives

S Bremer, S Meisch - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Notions of 'co‐production'are growing in popularity in social science and humanities
research on climate change, although there is some ambiguity about the meanings of the …

Cool pavements for urban heat island mitigation: A synthetic review

C Wang, ZH Wang, KE Kaloush, J Shacat - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2021 - Elsevier
Urban heat island (UHI) effect poses great challenges to urban environmental quality,
building energy consumption, and public health. Over decades, research efforts have been …

Assessment of urban heat island based on the relationship between land surface temperature and land use/land cover in Tehran

M Bokaie, MK Zarkesh, PD Arasteh… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2016 - Elsevier
In this study, the relationship between land surface temperature (LST) and Land Use/Land
Cover (LULC) in Tehran Metropolitan City was studied using Landsat TM satellite image. For …

Efficiency of parks in mitigating urban heat island effect: An example from Addis Ababa

GL Feyisa, K Dons, H Meilby - Landscape and urban planning, 2014 - Elsevier
Urban green infrastructure can to a certain extent mitigate urban warming. However, the
cooling effect of plants varies with space, time and plant-specific properties. To contribute to …

Planning for extreme heat: A national survey of US planners

S Meerow, L Keith - Journal of the American Planning Association, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Problem, research strategy, and findings Extreme heat is the deadliest climate hazard in the
United States. Climate change and the urban heat island effect are increasing the number of …