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Assessing the Impact of Urban Growth and Green Space Dynamics on Microclimate in Urban Areas: A Case Study of Siliguri City, West Bengal, India

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Urban Environment and Smart Cities in Asian Countries

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Rapid urbanization along with multiplicity of economic activities is degrading the quality of urban environment globally. The slowly rising temperature of urban environment also brings about a complex microclimatic condition with far reaching implications to urban dwellers. The role of urban greenery towards regulation and management of urban microclimate is considered highly significant. Therefore, this chapter makes an attempt to assess the effect of urban growth and declining urban green space on land surface temperature (LST) and associated microclimatic conditions in Siliguri city of West Bengal. The formation of urban heat island conditions in the city is studied using the Landsat data for (1990–2020). The spatial distribution of LST across the city area is analysed to understand its local effects on urban heat island (UHI) development. The nature and extent of relationship among LST, the built-up index (BI) and the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) is examined to explore the influence of the growth of built-up land and urban green space loss on urban micro-climate. The results reveal that the densely built-up core areas display higher temperature than the other part of the city and the areas covered by vegetation and water bodies’ exhibit lower temperature. Thus, the study shows that urban green space can help mitigate the condition of rising surface temperature and associated urban micro-climate, which would be important for sustainable urban development as well as for maintenance of healthy urban life.

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  1. Department of Geography, Gauhati University, Guwahati, Assam, India

    Chandana Sarkar & Bimal Kumar Kar

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  1. Department of Geography, Bhatter College, Dantan (Affiliated to Vidyasagar University), Paschim Medinipore, West Bengal, India

    Uday Chatterjee

  2. Department of Earth Sciences, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, USA

    Anzhelika Antipova

  3. Department of Geography, Diamond Harbour Women's University, Sarisha, South 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India

    Shovan Ghosh

  4. Department of Geography, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

    Sushobhan Majumdar

  5. Research Center for Oceanography, National Research and Innovation Agency, Ancol Timur, Jakarta, Indonesia

    Martiwi Diah Setiawati

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Sarkar, C., Kar, B.K. (2023). Assessing the Impact of Urban Growth and Green Space Dynamics on Microclimate in Urban Areas: A Case Study of Siliguri City, West Bengal, India. In: Chatterjee, U., Antipova, A., Ghosh, S., Majumdar, S., Setiawati, M.D. (eds) Urban Environment and Smart Cities in Asian Countries. Human Dynamics in Smart Cities. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25914-2_3

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