Overview
- Fosters decision support systems for effective long-term urban planning to mitigate and reduce urban heat islands, their impacts on urban areas, and with regard to proper synergies with climate protection
- Reports and analyzes studies of the heat island effect in eight metropolitan areas in the European Union
- Explores measures for counteracting heat islands phenomena, offering urban planning solutions applicable in Europe and beyond
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Urban Heat Island: Evidence, Measures and Tools
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Front Matter
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Pilot Actions in European Cities
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Keywords
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
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:
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Action Plans in Climate Adaptation: a Global Comparative Analysis (2011)
(Santander Foundation, Madrid)
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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);
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Sustainable
development and new asset of territorial planning in the wetland area Humedal
de Mantequilla” (2012-2015), (UNDP and Veneto Region);
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ADRIPLAN
(2013-2015) Adriatic Ionian Maritime Spatial Planning (EU DG Mare)
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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
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Counteracting Urban Heat Island Effects in a Global Climate Change Scenario
Editors: Francesco Musco
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10425-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and the Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-10424-9Published: 07 September 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79169-2Published: 24 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-10425-6Published: 30 August 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: LIII, 400
Number of Illustrations: 32 b/w illustrations, 181 illustrations in colour
Topics: Climate Change, Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry, Energy Efficiency, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Applied and Technical Physics