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Urban Heat Island Mitigation

  • Santamouris M
  • Ding L
  • Osmond P
Springer Singapore, (2019), 337-355
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-7940-6_18
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Abstract

Hard urban surfaces (concrete and asphalt) absorb solar radiation and re-radiate it as heat; and industry, transport and air-conditioning release waste heat to atmosphere. This urban heat island (UHI) effect is the most documented phenomenon of climate change. The...

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Santamouris, M., Ding, L., & Osmond, P. (2019). Urban Heat Island Mitigation. In Decarbonising the Built Environment (pp. 337–355). Springer Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7940-6_18

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