Research trends on environmental, energy and vulnerability impacts of Urban Heat Islands: An overview

González-Trevizo, Marcos Eduardo; Martinez-Torres, K.E.; Armendariz-Lopez, J.F.; Santamouris, M.; Bojórquez-Morales, Gonzalo; Luna-León, Aníbal

doi:10.1016/j.enbuild.2021.111051

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“…UHI increases energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions and decreases outdoor thermal comfort [44] [9] [28]. The severe changes to outdoor thermal comfort cause a high risk to public health and wellbeing [13], [57], [61], [44], and heat-related mortality rate in urban areas [62] [63], especially for vulnerable city dwellers [9] [28], older adults [12], young children, and people with chronic respiratory and cardiovascular diseases [64].…”

Section: Urban Heat Island Effectmentioning

confidence: 99%

What we know and do not know about New Zealand’s urban microclimate: A critical review

Jalali

GhaffarianHoseini

Ghaffarianhoseini

et al. 2022

Energy and Buildings

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Section: Urban Heat Island Effectmentioning

confidence: 99%

What we know and do not know about New Zealand’s urban microclimate: A critical review

Jalali

GhaffarianHoseini

Ghaffarianhoseini

et al. 2022

Energy and Buildings

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“…To determine China’s high-tech industry’s innovation efficiency, Zhu and Xu used the stochastic frontier production function, which uses sales revenue from new products as a production predictor of R&D projects, R&D capital spending as an input predictor, and R&D employees as an indicator of input expenses. Gonzalez-Trevizo et al (2021) found China’s industrial expenditure inefficient using the directional distance function. According to Dong et al (2021) , a generalized Cobb–Douglas production function was utilized to measure the company’s information capital by calculating the R&D accumulated capital.…”

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Does industrial up-gradation, environment regulations, and resource allocation impact on foreign direct investment: Empirical evidence from China

Xiong

Gao²

2022

Front. Psychol.

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Because of China’s tremendous increase in foreign direct investment (FDI) over the past two decades, this method of internationalization has become increasingly significant for companies worldwide. Heavy industry’s dominant role in China’s industrial structure must be modernized to ensure the country’s long-term growth and prosperity. There are 30 provinces in China covered by this dataset, which dates back from 2005 to 2018. Augmented mean group (AMG) and common correlated effects mean groups (CCE-MG) estimations demonstrate that China’s industrial upgrading and resource allocation considerably impact FDI inflows. The findings show that FDI inflows appear to be negatively affected by environmental rules. The results show that industrial upgradation and environmental regulations have not had the expected effect on FDI in China without the participation of other stakeholders. For the selected panel, the results from the control variable show that population aging reduces foreign direct investment inflows, whereas, economic growth increases FDI inflows. According to our findings and those of the empirical study, we make some policy proposals to help Chinese provinces attract more foreign direct investment by encouraging and upgrading the screening of such investments.

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“…The UHI intensity is based on the temperature difference between the measurements taken in the city and at reference stations outside the city. Measurements are performed in various scales depending on the research needs [ 1 , 2 ] and using terrestrial equipment or remote sensing. Over a century of observing, the UHI effect has become the best-described climate change phenomenon [ 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 ].…”

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The Future of Climate-Resilient and Climate-Neutral City in the Temperate Climate Zone

Antoszewski

Krzyżaniak

Świerk

2022

IJERPH

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The urban heat island (UHI) effect is the main problem regarding a city’s climate. It is the main adverse effect of urbanization and negatively affects human thermal comfort levels as defined by physiological equivalent temperature (PET) in the urban environment. Blue and green infrastructure (BGI) solutions may mitigate the UHI effect. First, however, it is necessary to understand the problem from the degrading side. The subject of this review is to identify the most essential geometrical, morphological, and topographical parameters of the urbanized environment (UE) and to understand the synergistic relationships between city and nature. A four-stage normative procedure was used, appropriate for systematic reviews of the UHI. First, one climate zone (temperate climate zone C) was limited to unify the design guidelines. As a result of delimitation, 313 scientific articles were obtained (546 rejected). Second, the canonical correlation analysis (CCA) was performed for the obtained data. Finally, our research showed the parameters of the UE facilities, which are necessary to mitigate the UHI effect. Those are building density and urban surface albedo for neighborhood cluster (NH), and distance from the city center, aspect ratio, ground surface albedo, and street orientation for street canyon (SC), as well as building height, material albedo, and building orientation for the building structure (BU). The developed guidelines can form the basis for microclimate design in a temperate climate. The data obtained from the statistical analysis will be used to create the blue-green infrastructure (BGI) dynamic modeling algorithm, which is the main focus of the future series of articles.

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Research trends on environmental, energy and vulnerability impacts of Urban Heat Islands: An overview

Cited by 49 publications

References 225 publications

What we know and do not know about New Zealand’s urban microclimate: A critical review

What we know and do not know about New Zealand’s urban microclimate: A critical review

Does industrial up-gradation, environment regulations, and resource allocation impact on foreign direct investment: Empirical evidence from China

The Future of Climate-Resilient and Climate-Neutral City in the Temperate Climate Zone

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