Adaptation Measures for Urban Heat Islands

192 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Adaptation Measures for Urban Heat Islands helps the reader understand the relative performance of these adaptation measures, methods and analysis relating to their creation and maintenance, evaluation methods, and the role of policy and governance in implementing them. A suite of case studies is included on these urban or metropolitan areas that are significantly warmer than their surrounding rural areas due to human activities. In recent years, a suite of adaptation measures have been developed to mitigate the urban heat island phenomena.

• Reihe: Academic Press
• ISBN: 9780128176245
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.04.2020
• Größe: 235 x 191 mm
• Verlag: Elsevier Inc
• Herausgegeben von: Hideki Takebayashi, Masakazu Moriyama