Frontiers in Environmental Science,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
12
Опубликована: Янв. 29, 2024
Rising
temperatures,
a
major
global
environmental
challenge,
negatively
impact
health,
the
environment,
society,
and
economy.
Surface
Urban
Heat
Islands
(SUHI),
exacerbated
by
urbanization
climate
change,
intensify
vulnerabilities
for
urban
areas
residents.
planning
design
aime
to
reduce
these
through
large-scale
small-scale
interventions.
However,
addressing
significance
of
capillary
effects
resulting
from
interventions
bottom-up
community
engagement
is
important.
acupuncture
(UA)
an
emerging
approach
in
contemporary
that
focuses
on
mitigate
SUHIs
at
level.
This
study
develops
framework
mitigating
impacts
UA
implementation
design.
The
proposed
consists
two
key
phases:
diagnosis
prescription.
During
phase,
we
analyzed
heat-vulnerable
points
identify
indicators
contributing
development
exacerbation
SUHIs.
Then,
employed
Matrix
Cross
Impact
Multiplications
Applied
Classification
(MICMAC)
technique
comprehensively
assess
75
influential
related
structure
across
various
aspects
scales,
focusing
mesoscale.
Among
them,
30
leading
were
identified,
which
morphological
emerged
as
significant
catalysts.
Moving
prescription
developed
UA-based
called
“5
Wh
Question”
addresses
five
fundamental
questions:
why,
who,
what,
how,
where.
Our
findings
can
provide
comprehensive
solutions
policymakers
planners
address
identified
points.
e-Prime - Advances in Electrical Engineering Electronics and Energy,
Год журнала:
2021,
Номер
unknown, С. 100002 - 100002
Опубликована: Окт. 1, 2021
The
present
article
aims
to
and
discuss
the
energy
environmental
reality
in
building
sector
critically
investigate
future
pathways
towards
its
decarbonisation.
current
economic
employment
characteristics
as
well
energy,
environmental,
climate
social
impact
of
are
analysed.
main
challenges
related
overpopulation,
change,
urbanisation,
consumption,
material
use
poverty
explored
evaluated.
recent
technological
developments
their
potential
is
assessed.
drivers
determining
consumption
examined
expected
evolution
Representative
scenarios
on
selectively
presented.
proposed
decarbonisation
presented
advantages
problems
depicted.
npj Urban Sustainability,
Год журнала:
2022,
Номер
2(1)
Опубликована: Май 30, 2022
Abstract
The
acceleration
of
global
urbanization
has
increased
the
frequency
urban
heat
island
(UHI)
effect
and
heatwaves,
which
seriously
endanger
human
health.
We
used
Shenzhen
as
a
case
study
to
examine
daytime
nighttime
differences
in
UHI
intensity
(UHII),
considering
different
local
climate
zones
(LCZs)
sea–land
breezes.
diurnal
UHII
was
>3
°C
for
52%
period,
whereas
nocturnal
only
26%
period.
average
building-type
values
were
2.77
1.11
higher
than
those
natural
type,
respectively.
Sea
breezes
alleviated
with
linear
correlation
coefficient
−0.68601
between
them.
Moreover,
showed
across
gradients,
can
help
guide
planning.
iScience,
Год журнала:
2022,
Номер
26(2), С. 105820 - 105820
Опубликована: Дек. 17, 2022
Land
surface
temperature
(LST)
is
subject
to
location
and
environmental
influences,
which
makes
quantification
difficult
in
terms
of
timeliness.
Based
on
10-d
geostationary
satellite
LST
TCI
products,
we
quantitatively
evaluated
the
thermal
environment
differentiation
various
ground
objects
North,
South,
Northwest
China
from
2017
2021.
We
found
that
condition
index
(TCI)
decreased,
whereas
it
increased
North
South
China.
In
contrast,
Moran's
Sustainability,
Год журнала:
2022,
Номер
14(9), С. 4945 - 4945
Опубликована: Апрель 20, 2022
The
urban
heat
island
(UHI)
phenomenon
gets
intensified
in
the
process
of
urbanization,
which
increases
vulnerability
dwellers
to
heatwaves.
UHI-induced
heatwaves
has
increased
Bangladesh
during
past
decades.
Thus,
this
study
aims
examine
UHI
and
city
Dhaka
using
a
index
(HVI).
HVI
is
constructed
various
demographic,
socioeconomic,
environmental
risk
variables
at
thana
level.
Principal
component
analysis
(PCA)
was
applied
26
normalized
for
each
41
thanas
prepare
HVI.
Result
shows
that
more
than
60%
under
built-up
areas,
while
vegetation
cover
water
bodies
are
low
proportion.
Analysis
very
high-
high-risk
zones
comprise
6
11
thanas,
low-
low-risk
only
5
8
thanas.
correlation
with
such
as
exposure
(0.62)
sensitivity
(0.80)
found
be
highly
positive,
adaptive
capacity
had
negative
(−0.26)
Findings
can
utilized
mitigation
maintaining
thermal
comfort
Dhaka.
