Quantifying morphology evolutions of urban heat islands and assessing their heat exposure in a metropolis

Sustainable Cities and Society, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 102, P. 105244 - 105244

Published: Feb. 2, 2024

Language: Английский

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Role of Plants and Urban Soils in Carbon Stock: Status, Modulators, and Sustainable Management Practices

Plants, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 14(4), P. 546 - 546

Published: Feb. 10, 2025

Urban soils are vital components of urban ecosystems, significantly influenced by anthropogenic activities and environmental factors. Despite misconceptions about their quality, play a pivotal role in carbon (C) cycling storage, impacting global emissions sequestration. However, challenges such as soil contamination, land use changes, expansion pose significant threats to quality C storage capacity. Over the last two decades, there has been an increasing interest potential part climate change mitigation strategies. In this review, bibliometric analysis covering twenty years (2004-2024) was performed offer insights into research trends, mainly Mediterranean region. This paper also identifies gaps proposes essential solutions for mitigating negative impacts urbanization on biodiversity functions. Key modulators, including plants, microbes, features, highlighted dynamics, emphasizing importance effective vegetation management enhance sequestration ecosystem services. Strategies reintroducing nature areas applying organic amendments promising improving microbial diversity. Further awareness maximize effectiveness these strategies, ensuring sustainable resilience.

Language: Английский

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Nonlinear relations of urban morphology to thermal anomalies: A cross-time comparative study based on Grad-CAM and SHAP

Ecological Indicators, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 162, P. 112024 - 112024

Published: April 16, 2024

Urban thermal anomalies profoundly impact human society, affecting daily life, public health, and residential comfort. Prior studies linked to urban morphology evolution land use change during urbanization based on multi-indicator quantification of linear regression modeling. However, it remained unclear which elements predominantly dominate whether their is solely linear, understanding the diverse mechanisms through how influences various across seasons remains limited. Therefore, this study employed convolutional neural networks interpretable machine learning (Grad-CAM SHAP) explore nonlinear relationships between anomalies, focusing comparisons different types anomaly events time. The main findings indicated: (1) Grad-CAM's identification pivotal hotspot pixels SHAP's interpretability assessment highlighted that crucial factors contributing include area green spaces, water number facilities, building floor ratio, count industrial production facilities. (2) Clear were observed dominant occurrence confirming existence multiple thresholds activation levels, as demonstrated partial dependency analysis. dynamic complexity these associations significantly varied depending type event timing anomalies. These offer actionable guidance for planners refine climate-friendly strategies, revealing heterogeneity time multi-scenario analysis providing tailored insights climate-sensitive planning.

Language: Английский

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The population exposure risk of urban heat island effect: From the perspective of urban spatial expansion in China

Building and Environment, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 258, P. 111565 - 111565

Published: April 24, 2024

Language: Английский

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Seasonal dynamics of land surface temperature and urban thermal comfort with land use land cover pattern in semi-arid Indian cities: Insights for sustainable Urban Management

Urban Climate, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 57, P. 102105 - 102105

Published: Aug. 16, 2024

Language: Английский

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Heat risk assessment and response to green infrastructure based on local climate zones

Building and Environment, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 248, P. 111040 - 111040

Published: Nov. 17, 2023

Language: Английский

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Assessing the thermal risks for residents and visitors in traditional Street-facing Dwellings with Eaves Gallery during an extreme heatwave event

Building and Environment, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 251, P. 111233 - 111233

Published: Jan. 23, 2024

Language: Английский

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Combating urban heat: Systematic review of urban resilience and adaptation strategies

Heliyon, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 10(17), P. e37001 - e37001

Published: Aug. 27, 2024

Language: Английский

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Towards 30% Efficiency by 2030 of Eco-Designed Building Integrated Photovoltaics

Solar, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 3(3), P. 434 - 457

Published: Aug. 7, 2023

The necessity of affordable and durable building-integrated photovoltaics has gained widespread importance for the renewable energy transition involving electrification decarbonization in climate-neutral cities that possess many public health co-benefits. Although PV market is dominated by polycrystalline monocrystalline silicon solar cells first generation, there an impetus research lately more sophisticated cell architectures with higher efficiency, longer lifetime, less use raw materials eco-design approach. To accelerate building integration next generation associated climate change mitigation benefits, we propose this work a holistic novel approach to requirements parameters emerging innovative structures, spanning from intrinsic properties panels effect urban environment. Within framework, supported simulation, improvement cells’ efficiency revealed as important parameter their wider deployment well major covering needs minimized thermal impact By analyzing lab-reported values timeline tandem cells, 30% BIPV eco-designed products central milestone be attained before 2030 sustainable transformation.

Language: Английский

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Global Disparities in Wellbeing from Green Infrastructure Cooling Services: A Systematic Review

Urban forestry & urban greening, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 97, P. 128372 - 128372

Published: May 23, 2024

The escalation of urbanisation contributes significantly to climate change and exacerbates environmental, health social disparities, especially affecting impoverished vulnerable communities in the urban periphery. However, few studies contrast global disparities multiple wellbeing from inequitable green infrastructure (GI) cooling perspectives. Through a combination systematic literature review hierarchical archetypal analysis, this study examines 95 out 3864 initial articles focusing on interplay between GI disparate services, their emphasis both subjective objective wellbeing. Our findings highlight an increasing interest topic since 2009, with notable surge post-2015 focused application nature-based solutions for associated inequity. reveals 43 thematic categories based four dimensions, which we identify characteristics: (1) most affected individuals often financial status, population density, access public facilities; (2) geographic areas where effects are pronounced, linked building attributes high-density impervious surfaces; (3) implications highlighting physical ailments; (4) perceptions emphasising residents' demand. Afterwards, analysis generated clustered archetypes that Archetype I III mostly filled North American, Archetypes II Asia, IV across Europe, America, underscore substantial variances similarities continents. These characterise pathways enhancing wellbeing, including integrating planning, retrofitting improve interaction, connecting disadvantaged groups heat management, fostering involvement decision-making processes. study's provide insights narrow ecological injustices arising research direction further theoretical, technological, practical investigations optimize

Language: Английский

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