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Taxonomy Archive: Built environment
20 Apr 2018 |
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Mitigating New York City’s heat island with urban forestry, living roofs, and light surfaces
This study uses a regional climate model (MM5) in combination with observed meteorological, satellite, and GIS data to determine the impact of each of the mitigation strategies, urban forestry, living/green roofs, and light surfaces, on surface and near-surface air temperature in the New York Metropolitan Region over space and time. ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Urban Heat Island Mitigation Can Improve New York City’s Environment: Research on the Impacts of Mitigation Strategies on the Urban Environment
This report discusses green “living” roofs and “cool” highly reflective roofs—building technologies that may offer solutions to ameliorate urban heat island effects and its consequences. This report has a relatively narrow goal: to focus on why these particular technologies may be incorporated into ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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The Urban Heat Island Effect in Windsor, ON: An Assessment of Vulnerability and Mitigation Strategies
This report discusses the urban heat island effect, its causes and impacts, vulnerable populations, adaptation and mitigation measures, as well as maps the urban heat island effect and vulnerability in windsor, ON.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Guidelines for Selecting Cool Roofs
A great introduction to cool roofs, from describing the different types to providing criteria for whether or not to implement one.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Improving Thermal Comfort in Windsor, ON; Assessing Urban Parks and Playgrounds
City parks offer Windsor residents an area where they can enjoy the outdoors and maintain their physical activity. Urban parks are known to have lower temperatures compared to their surrounding environment, mainly due to the presence of vegetation. Despite this, parks are still affected by high temperatures caused by the urban heat ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Adapting to urban heat: a tool kit for local governments
This Urban Heat Tool Kit is designed to help local governments reduce the effects of increased heat on their communities and citizens. It provides an analytic tool for policy makers to consider a combination of four built-environment changes (cool roofs, green roofs, cool pavements, and urban forestry), providing clear criteria for ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change, the Indoor Environment, and Health.
The indoor environment affects occupants’ health and comfort. Poor environmental conditions and indoor contaminants are estimated to cost the U.S. economy tens of billions of dollars a year in exacerbation of illnesses like asthma, allergic symptoms, and subsequent lost productivity. Climate change has the potential to affect ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Health co-benefits and risks of public health adaptation strategies to climate change: a review of current literature
OBJECTIVES: Many public health adaptation strategies have been identified in response to climate change. This report reviews current literature on health co-benefits and risks of these strategies to gain a better understanding of how they may affect health. METHODS: A literature review was conducted electronically using English ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Health & Green Infrastucture
Green infrastructure is the integration of nature and ecosystems in cities, towns, and regions to generate multiple benefits, such as clean air, better stormwater management, and public health. At the regional scale, it is a planned network of natural areas and open spaces, such as parks and nature preserves, river corridors, ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Benefits of Urban Greening
This factsheet is provided on the resource page of Friends of the Urban Forest and reviews the economic and health benfits of urban greening and forestry, including increased property values, cleaner air, and decreased water pollution.