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Reducing Urban Heat Islands: Compendium of Strategies Urban Heat Island Basics

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The Heat Island Compendium describes the causes and impacts of summertime urban heat islands and promotes strategies for lowering temperatures in communities. The compendium consists of six chapters. The first, Urban Heat Island Basics, provides an overview of different types of urban heat islands, methods for identifying them, and factors that contribute to their development. It introduces key concepts that are important for understanding and mitigating this phenomenon.

Further chapters each focus on a specific strategy to tackle heat island effect in communities: Trees and Vegetation, Green roofs, Cool Roofs and Cool pavements. The sixth and final chapter gives examples of implementation of these strategies.

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Source:
U.S. Environmental Agency

Published in Climate-ADAPT Jun 07 2016   -   Last Modified in Climate-ADAPT Dec 12 2023

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Date of publication:

2008

Keywords:

heat island effect

Climate impacts:

Extreme Temperatures

Adaptation elements:

Adaptation Measures and Actions, Observations and Scenarios, Nature-based solutions

Sectors:

Urban

Geographic characterisation:

Global

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