Adapting to Urban Heat:

Strategies and Tools for Ecology, Decarbonization and Health

Carmen Galán Marín, Emanuele Naboni, Carlos Rivera Gómez, Mattheos Santamouris

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN:
  9780443289781
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Environmental Science

As global temperatures rise, urban areas face unprecedented challenges from intensified heat. "Adapting to Urban Heat" offers a comprehensive exploration of design strategies and tools essential for building resilience in low-carbon cities.The book covers the following topics:• Setting the stage for urban heat adaptation: An introduction to the pressing need for adaptive measures in urban environments.• Understanding, mitigating, and adapting to urban overheating: Insights into the impacts of urban heat and the latest mitigation technologies, including the interplay between advanced materials, nature, buildings, and human behavior.• Designing for urban heat adaptation: Practical design strategies aimed at enhancing microclimates and user comfort at the neighborhood scale, with a focus on the relationship between urban forms and greenery.• Tools for decoding and coding urban heat: An examination of data science, urban meteorological networks, remote sensing, GIS applications, and modeling techniques that inform effective heat adaptation strategies - Provides an interdisciplinary approach to the study and understanding of urban heat islands - Presents evidence-based strategies to for adapting to climate change and building urban resilience - Includes a critical assessment of the role data science and GIS technologies play in climate change and urban planning

Table of contents

• Title of Book
• Part 1: Setting the stage for urban heat adaptation
• Part 2: Understanding, mitigating and adapting to urban overheating
• Part 3: Designing for urban heat adaptation
• Part 4: Tools for decoding and coding urban heat
• Part 5: Regenerative pathways for heat‑adapting
• Index