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Global Urban Heat Island Mitigation
Ansar Khan
Global Urban Heat Island Mitigation
Ansar Khan
Global Urban Heat Island Mitigation: Trends, Impacts, Strategies, and Technologies provides a comprehensive picture of global UHI micro-thermal interaction in different built environments. It explains the physical principles and how to moderate the undesirable consequences of swift and haphazard urban development to create more sustainable and resilient cities.
Global Urban Heat Island Mitigation provides extensive discussion on numerous UHI mitigation technologies and their effectiveness in cities around the globe. It proposes novel UHI mitigation technologies and strategies while assessing the effectiveness and suitability of UHI mitigation interventions in various climates and urban forms.
352 pages
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | June 20, 2022 |
ISBN13 | 9780323855396 |
Publishers | Elsevier - Health Sciences Division |
Pages | 404 |
Dimensions | 236 × 193 × 28 mm · 832 g |
Language | English |
Editor | Akbari, Hashem (Department of Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada) |
Editor | Fiorito, Francesco (Department of Civil, Environmental, Land, Building Engineering and Chemistry, Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy; Senior Visiting Fellow, University of New South Wales, Australia) |
Editor | Khan, Ansar (Department of Geography, Lalbaba College, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India) |
Editor | Mithun, Sk (Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Haldia Government College, Vidyasagar University, India) |
Editor | Niyogi, Dev (Dave P. Carelton Centennial Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, and Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA) |