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Counteracting Urban Heat Island Effects in a Global Climate Change Scenario

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

FrancescoMusco,Francesco Musco (1973), architect and urban planner, PhD in Analysis and Governanceof Sustainable Development (Ca' Foscari, Venice), Associate professor in Urban andRegional Planning at the Department of Design and Planning in Complex Environment,University Iuav of Venice. Currentlyteaches "Environmental Planning", "Territorial Design for Climate Change" and"Urban Design". Dean ofthe EU Erasmus Mundus Master Course on MSP Maritime Spatial Planning(2013-2019). Memberof the academic board of the European Master in Planning and policies for theCity, Environment and Landscape (www.iuav.it/cap) and of PhD program in"Planning and public policies for the territory". Supporterof a multidisciplinary approach to city and spatial planning, during the lastyears he finalized his research activity to the relationship between planningand sustainability, with particular attention to the implementation ofbottom-up public policies to define sustainable development in local contexts.He isresponsible of international agreements of scientific collaboration with DrexelUniversity (Philadelphia, US), John Hopkins University (Baltimore, US),University of Reading (UK), University of Seville (ES), Future University(Khartum, Sudan). Scientificcoordinator of several projects granted by competitive bids, among these:· CityAction Plans in Climate Adaptation: a Global Comparative Analysis (2011)(Santander Foundation, Madrid)· Naterg -Developing with Nature (EU South East Europe Program) (2009-2011)· UHI Developmentand application of mitigation and adaptation strategies and measures forcounteracting the global Urban Heat Islands phenomenon in climate changescenario" (EU Central Europe Program) (2011- 2014);· Sustainabledevelopment and new asset of territorial planning in the wetland area Humedalde 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)Memberof AESOP Association of European School of Planning. prof.Francesco MuscoIuavUniversity of VeniceS. Croce195730135Venice (Italy)[e-mail]

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CORILA - Consortium for coordination of research activities concerning the Venice lagoon system / Eu
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-319-10424-9
• 1st ed. 2016
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 158mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 872g
• ISBN-13: 9783319104249
• ISBN-10: 3319104241
• Artikelnr.: 41203802