Beating the urban heat: Situation, background, impacts and the way forward in China

BJ He, J Wang, J Zhu, J Qi - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper reviews urban heat (UrHT) challenges following the SBAR (situation,
background, assessment and recommendation) framework. The results indicate that …

Reducing the health effects of hot weather and heat extremes: from personal cooling strategies to green cities

O Jay, A Capon, P Berry, C Broderick, R de Dear… - The Lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
Heat extremes (ie, heatwaves) already have a serious impact on human health, with ageing,
poverty, and chronic illnesses as aggravating factors. As the global community seeks to …

Change in cooling degree days with global mean temperature rise increasing from 1.5 C to 2.0 C

ND Miranda, J Lizana, SN Sparrow… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Limiting global mean temperature rise to 1.5° C is increasingly out of reach. Here we show
the impact on global cooling demand in moving from 1.5° C to 2.0° C of global warming …

Progress, knowledge gap and future directions of urban heat mitigation and adaptation research through a bibliometric review of history and evolution

BJ He, W Wang, A Sharifi, X Liu - Energy and Buildings, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper presents a bibliometric review of the history and evolution of Urban Heat
Mitigation and Adaptation (UHMA) from 1989 to 2021 to identify its research progress …

Emerging materials and strategies for passive daytime radiative cooling

W Gao, Y Chen - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In recent decades, the growing demands for energy saving and accompanying heat
mitigation concerns, together with the vital goal for carbon neutrality, have drawn human …

Modeling Low Energy Demand Futures for Buildings: Current State and Research Needs

A Mastrucci, L Niamir, B Boza-Kiss… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Buildings are key in supporting human activities and well-being by providing shelter and
other important services to their users. Buildings are, however, also responsible for major …

Greenhouse gas emissions from air conditioning and refrigeration service expansion in develo** countries

Y Dong, M Coleman, SA Miller - Annual Review of Environment …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Air conditioning and refrigeration services are increasing rapidly in develo** countries
due to improved living standards. The cooling services industry is currently responsible for …

Cause-related injustice, process-related injustice, effect-related injustice and regional heat action planning priorities: An empirical study in Yangtze River Delta and …

BJ He - Landscape and Urban Planning, 2023 - Elsevier
Urban heat has affected numerous cities with increasingly severe environmental, social,
economic, and health impacts. It is urgent to develop plans and take actions to beat the heat …

Air-conditioning and the adaptation cooling deficit in emerging economies

F Pavanello, E De Cian, M Davide, M Mistry… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Increasing temperatures will make space cooling a necessity for maintain comfort and
protecting human health, and rising income levels will allow more people to purchase and …

Simulation-based framework to evaluate resistivity of cooling strategies in buildings against overheating impact of climate change

R Rahif, M Hamdy, S Homaei, C Zhang, P Holzer… - Building and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Over the last decades overheating in buildings has become a major concern. The situation
is expected to worsen due to the current rate of climate change. Many efforts have been …