The Role of Green Space in Mitigating Urban Heat Island Phenomenon
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Green Building".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 October 2022)
Special Issue Editors
Interests: thermal comfort; sustainable development; green building; urban heat island
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Interests: urban landscape planning; urban heat island; landscape-pattern-process analysis; coupling environmental risks with urbanization process; GIS & remote sensing modelling
Interests: climate change; urban climate; climate change on energy consumption; ecological monitoring
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The combined impact of increasingly intensified Urban Heat Island effect and global climate change can pose a severe challenge in addressing sustainable development in cities. As the key component of the urban natural ecosystem, urban green space plays an extremely important role in improving the urban thermal environment and regulating the urban climate. However, there is still a lack of comprehensive scientific understanding of how to optimize the spatial arrangement of buildings and green spaces in order to obtain better cooling effect from urban green spaces and efficiently manage urban thermal environment under climate change. In some cities, the green coverage rate and heat island intensity have even increased simultaneously. What is the reason for this phenomenon, and how to better play the key role of vegetation in regulating the urban climate are an important issues that needs to be solved in the construction of a sustainable city.
In this Special Issue, we focus on scientific research contents that explore the role of urban green space in changing urban thermal environment at various spatial-temporal scales. We will contribute to this Special Issue through research papers, case studies, conceptual or analytic reviews, and policy-relevant articles that will help to achieve urban sustainability.
Contributions include the following:
- Detection of Urban Heat Island (UHI) intensity during the urbanization process
- Quantifying the relationship between land use features and UHI intensity
- Combined influence of natural and man-made landscape on urban thermal environment
- Variation of outdoor thermal comfort level due to the evolution of urban green space
- Urban heat island mitigation for urban sustainability
Prof. Dr. Zhifeng Wu
Prof. Dr. Lei Yao
Dr. Yuanzheng Li
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- urban heat island effect
- outdoor thermal comfort
- health impact
- urban land use and land cover
- landscape composition and configuration
- green and blue infrastructures
- urban ecosystem
- adaptation and mitigation strategies
- sustainable urban planning
