Urban open space provides various benefits to citizens, but the thermal environment of this
space is impacted by global warming and urban heat islands. A growing number of studies …

The sustainable development and climate response have been paid attention to by many
cities, especially under the high-temperature weather conditions in summer, which have …

This chapter is aimed at analyzing a review of the empirical literature on some important
features of urban green spaces such as the components, functions, services, community …

Tree-planting is one of the veritable tools for combating urban heat island and improving
thermal comfort in the wake of global warming and urbanization. However, trees of different …

Research on urban heat mitigation has been growing in recent years with many of the
studies focusing on green infrastructure (GI) as a strategy to mitigate the adverse effects of …

This paper, while referring to a case study, focuses on the assessment of the input
parameters based on the equations solved by ENVI-met. The output data of different …

Background The majority of people live in cities and urbanization is continuing worldwide.
Cities have long been known to be society's predominant engine of innovation and wealth …

Urban street trees provide many environmental, social, and economic benefits for our cities.
This research explored the role of street trees in Melbourne, Australia, in cooling the urban …

Urbanization is transforming human society in many ways. Besides all the obvious benefits,
it also brings negative impacts such as the well-documented urban heat island (UHI) effect …

The effects of climate change and Urban Heat Island (UHI) phenomena have raised the
attention for monitoring and evaluating the outdoor thermal comfort. The urban vegetation …