Problems caused by urban climate phenomena such as urban heat island intensification, nuisance winds, or the lack of ventilation, are a growing concern with urban population …
Heat-related mortality has been identified as one of the key climate extremes posing a risk to human health. Current research focuses largely on how heat mortality increases with mean …
FG Sanchez, D Govindarajulu - Land use policy, 2023 - Elsevier
Nature-based solutions, such as reviving blue-green infrastructure (BGI), for climate adaptation in cities have been gaining global attention. In the case of India, the rapid …
Sustainable development of cities and communities under climate change calls for effective and pragmatic strategies to mitigate urban heat island (UHI) during hot seasons. Meanwhile …
With the transition to carbon-free economy, concerns have grown about the “green divide”– the separation of society into different social groups whose socioeconomic status …
JJ Patterson - Global Environmental Change, 2021 - Elsevier
A key challenge for effective, ongoing urban climate adaptation is to adapt institutions within urban governance. While an extensive foundation of empirical knowledge on urban climate …
Climate change adaptation research is dominated by in‐depth, qualitative, single‐or small‐n case studies that have resulted in rich and in‐depth understanding on adaptation processes …
Public policy in the US is partially influenced by public opinion. Studies that focus on the factors that predict urban populations' strong supports for local climate adaptation policies …
Urban climate manifests itself through thermal and wind environments specific to cities and can cause wind danger or overheating. Cities can benefit from preventing these effects …