Greenery as a mitigation and adaptation strategy to urban heat

NH Wong, CL Tan, DD Kolokotsa… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
The absence of vegetation in urban areas contributes to the establishment of the urban heat
island, markedly increasing thermal stress for residents, driving morbidity and mortality …

Heat mitigation benefits of urban green and blue infrastructures: A systematic review of modeling techniques, validation and scenario simulation in ENVI-met V4

Z Liu, W Cheng, CY Jim, TE Morakinyo, Y Shi… - Building and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Urban green and blue infrastructures (GBI) are considered an effective tool for mitigating
urban heat stress and improving human thermal comfort. Many studies have investigated the …

Relationship between urban spatial form and seasonal land surface temperature under different grid scales

Y Chen, J Yang, W Yu, J Ren, X **ao, JC **a - Sustainable Cities and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The urban heat island (UHI) effect is intensifying with increasing urbanization. As an
important representation of the UHI effect and the urban thermal environment, it is critical to …

The benefits and limits of urban tree planting for environmental and human health

DE Pataki, M Alberti, ML Cadenasso… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Many of the world's major cities have implemented tree planting programs based on
assumed environmental and social benefits of urban forests. Recent studies have …

[HTML][HTML] Quantifying the influence of nature-based solutions on building cooling and heating energy demand: A climate specific review

Q He, F Tapia, A Reith - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Implementing Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) is a promising way to reduce building
energy demand and facilitates the achievement of United Nations Sustainable Development …

Impacts of tree and building shades on the urban heat island: Combining remote sensing, 3D digital city and spatial regression approaches

Y Park, JM Guldmann, D Liu - Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 2021 - Elsevier
The continued increase in average and extreme temperatures around the globe is expected
to strike urban communities more harshly because of the urban heat island (UHI). Devising …

How can greenery space mitigate urban heat island? An analysis of cooling effect, carbon sequestration, and nurturing cost at the street scale

C **, L Han, J Wang, Z Feng, P Kumar… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2023 - Elsevier
Rapid urbanization has contributed to urban heat islands, which can potentially lead to
increased energy consumption and carbon emissions, further worsening global warming …

Effects of urban morphology on thermal comfort at the micro-scale

J Zhang, Z Li, D Hu - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2022 - Elsevier
Urban morphology has significant effects on local thermal comfort. To investigate the
correlation between thermal condition and urban spatial configuration, 24 typical scenarios …

Environmental justice implications of siting criteria in urban green infrastructure planning

FA Hoover, S Meerow, ZJ Grabowski… - … Policy & Planning, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Green infrastructure (GI) has become a panacea for cities working to enhance sustainability
and resilience. While the rationale for GI primarily focuses on its multifunctionality (eg …

A review on the significance and perspective of the numerical simulations of outdoor thermal environment

CKC Lam, H Lee, SR Yang, S Park - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2021 - Elsevier
Computer simulation programs have been used since 2006 for analyzing outdoor human
thermal environments. This study reviewed 130 peer-reviewed papers published during …