Low-carbon cities (LCCs) have attracted considerable attention from researchers over the
past 15 years as an important initiative for mitigating global warming. The increased pilot …

Abstract The Federal University of Technology at Akure (FUTA) in Nigeria is experiencing
ongoing development that is leading to the replacement of agricultural and forestry land …

Land use change detection (LUCD) is a critical technology with applications in various
fields, including forest disturbance, cropland changes, and urban expansion. However, the …

Land use practices in urban areas exert a profound influence on the urban thermal
environment and the pursuit of sustainable development. This paper aims to investigate and …

An easily applied and efficiently exploited approach was proposed for the prediction of inter-
and intra-annual land surface temperature (LST) in a city's central zone. Chengdu is chosen …

Many studies on mitigation of the surface urban heat island (SUHI) are conducted from the
perspective of landscape patch allocation, and few studies have investigated the overall …

The urban heat island (UHI) effect seriously challenges sustainable urban development
strategies and livability. Numerous studies have explored the UHI problem from the …

Background Urban heat island (UHI) is an urban climate phenomenon that primarily
responds to urban conditions and land use change. The extent of hard surfaces significantly …

In the context of rapid urbanization, Urban Heat Island (UHI) is considered as a major
anthropogenic alteration in Earth environments, and its temporal trends and future forecasts …

Urbanization significantly accelerates the replacement of natural land-use and land-cover
(LULC) classes, which can raise the temperature and diminish thermal comfort zone (TCZ) …