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Reducing Urban Heat Islands: Compendium of Strategies (October 2008) describes the causes and impacts of summertime urban heat islands and promotes strategies for lowering temperatures in communities. It provides an overview of heat islands, how they form, and their impacts, and describes key urban heat island reduction strategies in depth.
This chapter draws from the experience of many different groups in U.S. and covers a range of initiatives to highlight a variety of urban heat island reduction activities.

Reference information

Websites:
https://www.epa.gov/heat-islands/heat-island-compendium
Source:

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Published in Climate-ADAPT: Jun 7, 2016

Keywords:
benefits and costs, co-benefits, heat island effect
Climate impacts:

Extreme Temperatures

Adaptation Approaches:

Adaptation Measures and Actions, Nature-based solutions

Sectors:

Urban

Geographic characterisation:

Global

Publications and Reports Documents (1)
Urban Heat Islands
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