Mitigation and Adaptation of Urban Overheating: The Impact of Warmer Cities on Climate, Energy, Health, Environmental Quality, Economy, and Quality of Life

Provides a fully organized, comprehensive, and holistic analysis of the impact of urban overheating, mitigation, and adaptation on energy, health, environmental quality, survivability, quality of life, and economy Mitigation and Adaptation of Urban Overheating aims to analyze and present all existing relative studies to investigate the global magnitude and characteristics of the ambient temperature drop and the reduction of the heat burden resulting from modified climate conditions due to the implementation of urban mitigation and adaptation technologies and policies. This book will discuss urban overheating, urban heat mitigation, governance, anthropogenic heat emissions, adaptation and adaptation technologies, and their impacts on urban environmental quality, urban health, energy supply and demand, low-income and aged populations, and the economy of cities. This book incorporates recent developments on urban climatology, urban overheating, mitigation, and adaptation technologies.

Table of Contents:
Urban overheating and its impact on human beings Urban heat mitigation and adaptation: the state of the art The impact of heat mitigation and adaptation technologies and urban climate The impact of heat mitigation on low-income population The impact of heat mitigation and adaptation technologies on urban health The impact of heat mitigation on energy demand The impact of heat mitigation on urban environmental quality The impact of heat adaptation on low-income population Regional climatic change and aged population. Adaptive measures to support current and future requirements Impact of regional climatic change on the economy of cities—impact of adaptation and mitigation policies Urban overheating governance on the mitigation and adaptation of anthropogenic heat emissions

About the Author :
Dr. Nasrin Aghamohammadi is an Associate Professor at Curtin University, Australia and environmental engineering in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Her core expertise is in sustainability, net zero precincts, climate change adaptation, urban heat island phenomenon, and health impact. Since 1995, she has targeted contamination measurement and possible control. She has an extensive background in pure and applied research as well as chemical engineering. She has acquired, applied, and taken pride in a very wide range of experiences and activities from hands-on projects such as projects involving air, water, wastewater, solid waste, and related health issues. She led as the principal investigator for various local and international research focusing on urban health and climate change addressing sustainable development goals and sustainable future cities. Her main research is on net zero precincts and urban footprint mitigations. Mat Santamouris is the Anita Lawrence Professor of High Performance Architecture in the University of New South Wales in Australia. He is a past a professor at the University of Athens, Greece and visiting Professor at the Cyprus Institute, Metropolitan University of London, Tokyo Polytechnic University, Bolzano University, Brunnel University and National University of Singapore. Past President of the National Center of Renewable and Energy Savings of Greece. Editor and author of 15 international books on topics related to heat island, solar energy and energy conservation in buildings published by Earthscan, Springer, etc. Guest editor of twelve special issues of various scientific journals. Scientific coordinator of many international research programs and author of almost 290 scientific papers published in peer reviewed international scientific journals. Reviewer of research projects in 15 countries including USA, UK, France, Germany, Canada, Sweden, etc. Expert in various International Research Institutions. Highly Cited researcher according to Clarivate in 2017 and 2018.