Impacts of Landscape Patterns on the Urban Thermal Comfort
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (5 April 2024) | Viewed by 653
Special Issue Editors
Interests: built environment; urban heat islands; building energy savings; building surface coating; solar radiation; air-conditioning heat loads; weather database
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Interests: environmental simulation; computational geometry; remote sensing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Urban Thermal Comfort research is becoming increasingly popular due to rapid urbanization in combination with global warming, which cause the urban heat island (UHI) phenomenon to intensify. To mitigate UHI and improve thermal comfort, it is imperative to know which landscape features or patterns impact thermal comfort and to what extent. Such knowledge is crucial to achieve sustainable urbanization while maintaining thermal comfort and to improve thermal comfort within an existing urban landscape.
Thus, innovative research that is supported by computational approaches, field studies or spatio-temporal analysis, materials for urban buildings and pavements aiming to expand the knowledge of Urban Thermal Comfort is in high demand. In this Special Issue, we invite researchers to share their state-of-the-art work on Landscape Patterns combined with their effects on the Urban Thermal Comfort, and other research fields such as urban blocks and urban greening coverage related to urban environmental engineering to cope with the current climate change phenomenon and reduce environmental burden.
Original research from (but not limited to) the following topics of interest will be considered:
- Thermal comfort analysis;
- Urban Heat Island mitigation strategies;
- Urban Heat Island mapping;
- Landscape remote sensing data processing;
- Urban coatings materials.
Dr. Jihui Yuan
Dr. Marko Bizjak
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- urban heat island
- thermal comfort
- landscape pattern
- UHI mitigation
- urban design
- urban materials and greening
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