Global Urban Heat Island Mitigation
Front Cover -- Global Urban Heat Island Mitigation -- Global Urban Heat Island Mitigation -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Foreword -- Key characteristics -- 1 - Mapping and management of urban shade assets: a novel approach for promoting climatic urban action -- 1. Urban planning and urban microclimate: a challenge of knowledge communication -- 2. Correlating the language of urban morphology with its climatic outcomes -- 3. Urban heat island mitigation measures: the limits of intervention -- 3.1 Building envelopes -- 3.2 Pavements and roads -- 3.3 Urban landscaping elements -- 3.4 Street geometry -- 4. Shade's pivotal effect on outdoor thermal comfort and its urban-scale mapping -- 5. Quantifying shade levels and tree planting: suggested indicators -- 5.1 Shade index -- 5.2 Tree canopy cover -- 5.3 Tree shade efficacy index -- 5.4 Street tree density -- 6. Case study: using the indicators for urban shade analysis in Tel Aviv-Yafo -- 7. Conclusion -- Acknowledgment -- References -- 2 - Vulnerability to the urban heat islands effect in the Global North and the Global South: assessment of the driv ... -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Drivers and consequences of the UHI: a brief literature review -- 3. Methodology and data issues -- 4. Empirical analysis -- 4.1 Descriptive statistics -- 4.2 Multilevel multivariate regression analysis -- 5. Conclusion and policy discussion -- References -- 3 - Luminescence for the built environment: from lighting to urban heat island mitigation purposes -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Materials -- 2.1 Fluorescent materials -- 2.2 Phosphorescent materials -- 3. Characterizing photoluminescent materials for building applications -- 3.1 Structural characterization techniques -- 3.2 Thermo-optical characterization techniques -- 3.3 Cool photoluminescent materials characterization techniques.