Urban open spaces provide various benefits to large populations in cities. Since thermally
comfortable urban open spaces improve the quality of urban living, an increasing number of …

Mean radiant temperature is central to our understanding of the radiant heat exchange
between the human body and surrounding environment. This paper will present a review of …

Urban residents suffer more from heat stress, compared to people living in rural areas, due
to the urban heat island (UHI) effect. Mitigation of UHI is thus essential to improving human …

The impacts of climate change such as extreme heat waves are exacerbated in cities where
most of the world's population live. Quantifying urbanization impacts on ambient air …

Abstract 'Green Our Rooftop'aims to transform the rooftop of Treasury Place, a state
government building in the inner city of Melbourne, into an intensive green roof under the …

There is near consensus in the scientific community that humans will experience higher
future temperatures due to the ongoing accumulation of greenhouse gases in the …

Apparent temperature is more closely related to mortality during extreme heat events than
other temperature variables, yet spatial epidemiology studies typically use skin temperature …

Since the early 2000's, much attention has been paid to human thermal assessment in
urban outdoor environments in different climatic zones. Some previous studies have argued …

Internal migration from rural to urban areas is prevalent in China. Past studies demonstrated
that thermal adaptation differed among people from various climate regions. However, the …

Due to limits to standard methods for surveying outdoor thermal comfort (OTC), it is difficult to
compare thermal benchmarks and thermal index calibrations among studies and climatic …