Urban tree planting initiatives are being actively promoted as a planning tool to enable
urban areas to adapt to and mitigate against climate change, enhance urban sustainability …

In recent decades, rising trend in the number of heat waves (HWs) has exacerbated the risk
of heat-related mortality and morbidity. The frequent deadly HWs precipitated a multitude of …

Urban areas are experiencing strongly increasing hot temperature extremes. However,
these urban heat events have seldom been the focus of traditional detection and attribution …

Despite their adverse impacts, definitions and measurements of heat waves are ambiguous
and inconsistent, generally being endemic to only the group affected, or the respective study …

Urban street trees provide many environmental, social, and economic benefits for our cities.
This research explored the role of street trees in Melbourne, Australia, in cooling the urban …

Heatwaves represent a significant natural hazard in Australia, arguably more hazardous to
human life than bushfires, tropical cyclones and floods. In the 2008/2009 summer, for …

The frequency of extreme heat events, such as the summer of 2003 in Europe, and their
corresponding consequences for human beings are expected to increase under a warmer …

Urban drainage infrastructure is generally designed to rapidly export stormwater away from
the urban environment to minimize flood risk created by extensive impervious surface cover …

Despite their relative importance in terms of human mortality, extreme heat events have not
attracted the same level of study compared with other natural hazards in regards to …

Introduction: With climate change, there has been an increase in the frequency, intensity and
duration of heatwave events. In response to the devastating mortality and morbidity of recent …