Progress, knowledge gap and future directions of urban heat mitigation and adaptation research through a bibliometric review of history and evolution

BJ He, W Wang, A Sharifi, X Liu - Energy and Buildings, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper presents a bibliometric review of the history and evolution of Urban Heat
Mitigation and Adaptation (UHMA) from 1989 to 2021 to identify its research progress …

Urban green infrastructures to improve pedestrian thermal comfort: A systematic review

BM de Quadros, MGO Mizgier - Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 2023 - Elsevier
Evidence of heat mitigation through green infrastructure has been extensively documented
and quantified in the literature; however, the effectiveness of implementing these strategies …

Bioclimatic comfort in urban planning and modeling spatial change during 2020–2100 according to climate change scenarios in Kocaeli, Türkiye

O Isinkaralar - International journal of environmental science and …, 2023 - Springer
The concentration of human activities in urban areas, increasing greenhouse gas emissions,
and high global temperature values in urban areas have accelerated the research on global …

Effects of street orientation and tree species thermal comfort within urban canyons in a hot, dry climate

N Narimani, A Karimi, RD Brown - Ecological Informatics, 2022 - Elsevier
Urban valleys as a primary element of the urban environment have played an undeniable
role in the intensification of urban heat islands as climate change has increased in the past …

Forest canopies as nature‐based solutions to mitigate global change effects on people and nature

K Verheyen, L Gillerot, H Blondeel… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Via sheltering, decoupling and buffering mechanisms, tree canopies have the capacity to
mitigate impacts of multiple global‐change drivers on below‐canopy processes and …

[HTML][HTML] Contribution of non-park green space to the equity of urban green space accessibility

X Ke, D Huang, T Zhou, H Men - Ecological Indicators, 2023 - Elsevier
Urban green space (UGS) plays a critical role in promoting a sustainable development of
urban ecology and improving inhabitants' well-beings. Equal access to UGS is vital for …

Tree crown traits and planting context contribute to reducing urban heat

M Sharmin, MG Tjoelker, S Pfautsch… - Urban Forestry & Urban …, 2023 - Elsevier
Urban warming affects many millions of city dwellers worldwide. The current study evaluated
the extent to which trees reduce air and surface temperatures in urban settings across …

Assessing the vertical synergies between outdoor thermal comfort and air quality in an urban street canyon based on field measurements

C Miao, X He, Z Gao, W Chen, BJ He - Building and Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Outdoor thermal comfort and air quality are two key aspects of urban environmental quality.
Understanding the synergies between outdoor thermal comfort and air quality in urban street …

Cooling efficacy of trees across cities is determined by background climate, urban morphology, and tree trait

H Li, Y Zhao, C Wang, D Ürge-Vorsatz… - … Earth & Environment, 2024 - nature.com
Urban planners and other stakeholders often view trees as the ultimate panacea for
mitigating urban heat stress; however, their cooling efficacy varies globally and is influenced …

[HTML][HTML] How to measure the urban park cooling island? A perspective of absolute and relative indicators using remote sensing and buffer analysis

W Zhu, J Sun, C Yang, M Liu, X Xu, C Ji - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Urban parks have been proven to cool the surrounding environment, and can thus mitigate
the urban heat island to an extent by forming a park cooling island. However, a …