Counteracting Urban Heat Island Effects in a Global Climate Change Scenario

Part I. The Urban Heat Island: Evidence, Measures and Tools

1. Forecasting Models for Urban Warming in Climate Change
Joachim Fallmann, Stefan Emeis, Sven Wagner, Christine Ketterer, Andreas Matzarakis, Ilona Krüzselyi, Gabriella Zsebeházi, Mária Kovács, Tomas Halenka, Peter Huszár, Michal Belda, Rodica Tomozeiu, Lucio Botarelli

2. Urban Heat Island Gold Standard and Urban Heat Island Atlas
Györgyi Baranka, L. Bozó, Rok Ciglič, Blaž Komac

3. Methodologies for UHI Analysis
Ardeshir Mahdavi, Kristina Kiesel, Milena Vuckovic

4. Relevance of Thermal Indices for the Assessment of the Urban Heat Island
Andreas Matzarakis, Letizia Martinelli, Christine Ketterer

5. Decision Support Systems for Urban Planning
Davide Fava, Graziella Guaragno, Claudia Dall’Olio

Part II. Pilot Actions in European Cities

6. UHI in the Metropolitan Cluster of Bologna-Modena: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies
Stefano Zauli Sajani, Stefano Marchesi, Paolo Lauriola, Rodica Tomozeiu, Lucio Botarelli, Giovanni Bonafè, Graziella Guaragno, Federica Fiumi, Michele Zanelli, Lodovico Gherardi, Marcello Capucci, Catia Rizzo, Filippo Bonazzi

7. The Urban Corridor of Venice and The Case of Padua
Marco Noro, Renato Lazzarin, Filippo Busato

8. Mitigation of and Adaptation to UHI Phenomena: The Padua Case Study
Francesco Musco, Laura Fregolent, Davide Ferro, Filippo Magni, Denis Maragno, Davide Martinucci, Giuliana Fornaciari

9. Pilot Action City of Vienna – UHI-STRAT Vienna
Doris Damyanovic, Florian Reinwald, Christiane Brandenburg, Brigitte Allex, Birgit Gantner, Ulrich Morawetz, Jürgen Preiss

10. Pilot Actions in European Cities – Stuttgart
Rayk Rinke, Rainer Kapp, Ulrich Reuter, Christine Ketterer, Joachim Fallmann, Andreas Matzarakis, Stefan Emeis

11. Urban Heat Island and Bioclimatic Comfort in Warsaw
Krzysztof Błażejczyk, Magdalena Kuchcik, Wojciech Dudek, Beata Kręcisz, Anna Błażejczyk, Paweł Milewski, Jakub Szmyd, Cezary Pałczyński

12. Urban Heat Island in the Ljubljana City
Blaž Komac, Rok Ciglič, Alenka Loose, Miha Pavšek, Svetlana Čermelj, Krištof Oštir, Žiga Kokalj, Maja Topole

13. Pilot Action in Budapest
Györgyi Baranka, R. Ongjerth, F. Szkordikisz, O. Kocsis

14. Pilot Actions in European Cities – Prague
Michal Žák, Pavel Zahradníček, Petr Skalák, Tomáš Halenka, Dominik Aleš, Vladimír Fuka, Mária Kazmuková, Ondřej Zemánek, Jan Flegl, Kristina Kiesel, Radek Jareš, Jaroslav Ressler, Peter Huszár

15. Erratum to: Chapter 2 Urban Heat Island Gold Standard and Urban Heat Island Atlas
Györgyi Baranka, L. Bozó, Rok Ciglič, Blaž Komac

Nyckelord: Environment, Climate Change, Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry, Energy Efficiency, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Applied and Technical Physics