Local climate change and urban heat island mitigation techniques - The state of the art

Journal of Civil Engineering and Management

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 1-16

  Akbari, Hashem ^a   Cartalis, Constantinos ^b   Kolokotsa, Denia ^c   Muscio, Alberto ^d   Pisello, Anna Laura ^e   Rossi, Federico ^e   Santamouris, Matheos ^b   Synnefa, Afroditi ^b   Wong, Nyuk Hien ^f   Zinzi, Michele ^g  

^a Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^f NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^g ENEA   (Italy)

Author keywords

adaptation; cool materials; mitigation; urban heat island

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; THERMAL POLLUTION;

ADAPTATION; AMBIENT AIR TEMPERATURE; COOL MATERIALS; HIGHLY REFLECTIVE; MITIGATION; MITIGATION TECHNIQUES; URBAN HEAT ISLAND; URBAN TEMPERATURES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84950970795     PISSN: 13923730     EISSN: 18223605     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3846/13923730.2015.1111934     Document Type: Article

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