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Changying Xiang and Lulu Tao
Vertical greenery not only helps to cool the surfaces of buildings but, more importantly, it can also mitigate the Urban Heat Island effect. The growth of vertical greenery is highly dependent on ongoing maintenance, such as irrigation. Wind-driven rain ...
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Jan Ketil Rød and Maaike J. Maarse
Rural areas cool off by night but built-up urban areas lack similar relief and may threaten vulnerable people?s health during heat waves. Temperature varies within a city due to the heterogenous nature of urban environments, but official measurement stat...
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Noushig Kaloustian, David Aouad, Gabriele Battista and Michele Zinzi
The Urban Heat Island phenomenon and urban overheating are serious consequences of urbanization resulting in impacts on thermal comfort levels, heat stress and even mortality. This paper builds on previous findings on the topic of non-constructible parce...
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Flavia Laureti, Letizia Martinelli and Alessandra Battisti
As urban overheating is increasing, there is a strong public interest towards mitigation strategies to enhance comfortable urban spaces, for their role in supporting urban metabolism and social life. The study presents an assessment of the existing therm...
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Jennifer Drake, Dean Young and Nicholas McIntosh
The transportation of pollutants from impervious surfaces during runoff events to receiving water bodies is a serious environmental problem. Summer runoff is also heated by impervious surfaces, causing thermal enrichment in receiving water body systems a...
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Koichi Isawa
To obtain a basic understanding of the resultant changes in the human body exergy balance (input, consumption, storage, and output) accompanying outdoor air temperature fluctuations, a ?human body system and a built environmental system? coupled with num...
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