Urban climate mitigation techniques

The urban climate is continuously deteriorating. Urban heat lowers the quality of urban life, increases energy needs, and affects the urban socio-economy. Urban Climate Mitigation Techniques presents steps that can be taken to mitigate this situation through a series of innovative technologies and e...

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Další autoři: Santamouris, M. (Matheos), 1956- (Editor)
Kolokotsa, Denia  
Korporace: ProQuest Ebook Central (online služba) (Distributor) 
Médium: E-kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016
Žánr/forma:elektronické knihy
ISBN:978-1-317-65862-7
978-1-315-76583-9
978-0-415-71213-2
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Obsah:
  • 1 Urban warming and mitigation: Actual status, impacts and challenges
  • 2 Understanding and reducing the anthropogenic heat emission
  • 3 Valuing green spaces as a heat mitigation technique
  • 4 Mitigating the urban heat with cool materials for the buildings' fabric
  • 5 Cool pavements to mitigate urban heat islands
  • 6 The effect of evaporative cooling techniques on reducing urban heat
  • 7 Exploiting earth cooling to mitigate heat on cities' scale
  • 8 Urban climate mitigation techniques: The role of spatial planning
  • 9 Urban climate models
  • 10: Urban heat island mitigation technologies: Case studies