Counteracting Urban Heat Island Effects in a Global Climate Change Scenario

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-liii

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2. The Urban Heat Island: Evidence, Measures and Tools

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Forecasting Models for Urban Warming in Climate Change

      • Joachim Fallmann, Stefan Emeis, Sven Wagner, Christine Ketterer, Andreas Matzarakis, Ilona Krüzselyi et al.

      Pages 3-39Open Access

   3. Urban Heat Island Gold Standard and Urban Heat Island Atlas

      • Györgyi Baranka, L. Bozó, Rok Ciglič, Blaž Komac

      Pages 41-70Open Access

   4. Methodologies for UHI Analysis

      • Ardeshir Mahdavi, Kristina Kiesel, Milena Vuckovic

      Pages 71-91Open Access

   5. Relevance of Thermal Indices for the Assessment of the Urban Heat Island

      • Andreas Matzarakis, Letizia Martinelli, Christine Ketterer

      Pages 93-107Open Access

   6. Decision Support Systems for Urban Planning

      • Davide Fava, Graziella Guaragno, Claudia Dall’Olio

      Pages 109-127Open Access

3. Pilot Actions in European Cities

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129

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   2. UHI in the Metropolitan Cluster of Bologna-Modena: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies

      • Stefano Zauli Sajani, Stefano Marchesi, Paolo Lauriola, Rodica Tomozeiu, Lucio Botarelli, Giovanni Bonafè et al.

      Pages 131-200Open Access

   3. The Urban Corridor of Venice and The Case of Padua

      • Marco Noro, Renato Lazzarin, Filippo Busato

      Pages 201-219Open Access

   4. Mitigation of and Adaptation to UHI Phenomena: The Padua Case Study

      • Francesco Musco, Laura Fregolent, Davide Ferro, Filippo Magni, Denis Maragno, Davide Martinucci et al.

      Pages 221-256Open Access

   5. Pilot Action City of Vienna – UHI-STRAT Vienna

      • Doris Damyanovic, Florian Reinwald, Christiane Brandenburg, Brigitte Allex, Birgit Gantner, Ulrich Morawetz et al.

      Pages 257-280Open Access

   6. Pilot Actions in European Cities – Stuttgart

      • Rayk Rinke, Rainer Kapp, Ulrich Reuter, Christine Ketterer, Joachim Fallmann, Andreas Matzarakis et al.

      Pages 281-303Open Access

   7. Urban Heat Island and Bioclimatic Comfort in Warsaw

      • Krzysztof Błażejczyk, Magdalena Kuchcik, Wojciech Dudek, Beata Kręcisz, Anna Błażejczyk, Paweł Milewski et al.

      Pages 305-321Open Access

   8. Urban Heat Island in the Ljubljana City

      • Blaž Komac, Rok Ciglič, Alenka Loose, Miha Pavšek, Svetlana Čermelj, Krištof Oštir et al.

      Pages 323-344Open Access

   9. Pilot Action in Budapest

      • Györgyi Baranka, R. Ongjerth, F. Szkordikisz, O. Kocsis

      Pages 345-372Open Access

   10. Pilot Actions in European Cities – Prague

       • Michal Žák, Pavel Zahradníček, Petr Skalák, Tomáš Halenka, Dominik Aleš, Vladimír Fuka et al.

       Pages 373-400Open Access

4. Erratum to: Chapter 2 Urban Heat Island Gold Standard and Urban Heat Island Atlas

   • Györgyi Baranka, L. Bozó, Rok Ciglič, Blaž Komac

   Pages E1-E2Open Access

Urban heat islands are a new type of microclimatic phenomenon that causes a significant increase in the temperature of cities compared to surrounding areas. The phenomenon has been enforced by the current trend towards climate change. Although experts consider urban heat islands an urgent European Union public health concern, there are too few policies that address it. The EU carried out a project to learn more about this phenomenon through pilot initiatives. The pilots included feasibility studies and strategies for appropriately altering planning rules and governance to tackle the problem of urban heat islands. The pilots were carried out in eight metropolitan areas: Bologna/Modena, Budapest, Ljubljana, Lodz, Prague, Stuttgart, Venice/Padova, and Vienna. The feasibility studies carried out in these pilot areas focused on the specific morphology of EU urban areas, which are often characterised by the presence of historical old towns.

• adaptation policies
• climate change impacts
• mitigation policies
• urban heat islands
• urban warming
• climate change
• remote sensing/photogrammetry

• Department of Design and Planning in Complex Environments, IUAV University of Venice, Venice, Italy

  Francesco Musco

Francesco Musco, Francesco Musco (1973), architect and urban planner, PhD in Analysis and Governance of Sustainable Development (Ca’ Foscari, Venice), Associate professor in Urban and Regional Planning at the Department of Design and Planning in Complex Environment, University Iuav of Venice. Currently teaches “Environmental Planning”, “Territorial Design for Climate Change” and “Urban Design”. Dean of the EU Erasmus Mundus Master Course on MSP Maritime Spatial Planning (2013-2019). Member of the academic board of the European Master in Planning and policies for the City, Environment and Landscape (www.iuav.it/cap) and of PhD program in “Planning and public policies for the territory”. Supporter of a multidisciplinary approach to city and spatial planning, during the last years he finalized his research activity to the relationship between planning and sustainability, with particular attention to the implementation of bottom-up public policies to define sustainable development in local contexts. He is responsible of international agreements of scientific collaboration with Drexel University (Philadelphia, US), John Hopkins University (Baltimore, US), University of Reading (UK), University of Seville (ES), Future University (Khartum, Sudan). Scientific coordinator of several projects granted by competitive bids, among these:

• ·         City Action Plans in Climate Adaptation: a Global Comparative Analysis (2011) (Santander Foundation, Madrid)
  
• ·         Naterg - Developing with Nature (EU South East Europe Program) (2009-2011)
  
• ·         UHI Development and application of mitigation and adaptation strategies and measures for counteracting the global Urban Heat Islands phenomenon in climate change scenario” (EU Central Europe Program) (2011- 2014);
  
• ·         Sustainable development and new asset of territorial planning in the wetland area Humedal de Mantequilla” (2012-2015), (UNDP and Veneto Region);
  
• ·         ADRIPLAN (2013-2015) Adriatic Ionian Maritime Spatial Planning (EU DG Mare)
  
• ·         URBAN_Wins (2015-2018) H2020 Waste 2015 6-b (EU Horizon 2020)
  

Member of AESOP Association of European School of Planning.

 

prof. Francesco Musco

Iuav University of Venice

S. Croce 1957

30135 Venice (Italy)

francesco.musco@iuav.it