Green Infrastructure as an Urban Heat Island Mitigation Strategy—A Review
Research on urban heat mitigation has been growing in recent years with many of the studies focusing on green infrastructure (GI) as a strategy to mitigate the adverse effects of an urban heat island (UHI). This paper aims at presenting a review of the range of findings from GI research for urban he...
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doaj-804bfe194e7845219a93b3920e8f8d7a2020-12-21T00:00:16ZengMDPI AGWater2073-44412020-12-01123577357710.3390/w12123577Green Infrastructure as an Urban Heat Island Mitigation Strategy—A ReviewFatma Balany0Anne Wm Ng1Nitin Muttil2Shobha Muthukumaran3Man Sing Wong4College of Engineering and Science, Victoria University, P.O. Box 14428, Melbourne, VIC 8001, AustraliaCollege of Engineering and Science, Victoria University, P.O. Box 14428, Melbourne, VIC 8001, AustraliaCollege of Engineering and Science, Victoria University, P.O. Box 14428, Melbourne, VIC 8001, AustraliaCollege of Engineering and Science, Victoria University, P.O. Box 14428, Melbourne, VIC 8001, AustraliaDepartment of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, ChinaResearch on urban heat mitigation has been growing in recent years with many of the studies focusing on green infrastructure (GI) as a strategy to mitigate the adverse effects of an urban heat island (UHI). This paper aims at presenting a review of the range of findings from GI research for urban heat mitigation through a review of scientific articles published during the years 2009–2020. This research includes a review of the different types of GI and its contribution for urban heat mitigation and human thermal comfort. In addition to analysing different mitigation strategies, numerical simulation tools that are commonly used are also reviewed. It is seen that ENVI-met is one of the modelling tools that is considered as a reliable to simulate different mitigation strategies and hence has been widely used in the recent past. Considering its popularity in urban microclimate studies, this article also provides a review of ENVI-met simulation results that were reported in the reviewed papers. It was observed that the majority of the research was conducted on a limited spatial scale and focused on temperature and human thermal comfort.https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/12/12/3577green infrastructureurban heat islandhuman thermal comfortmodelling toolsENVI-met |
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Green Infrastructure as an Urban Heat Island Mitigation Strategy—A Review |
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Green Infrastructure as an Urban Heat Island Mitigation Strategy—A Review |
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Research on urban heat mitigation has been growing in recent years with many of the studies focusing on green infrastructure (GI) as a strategy to mitigate the adverse effects of an urban heat island (UHI). This paper aims at presenting a review of the range of findings from GI research for urban heat mitigation through a review of scientific articles published during the years 2009–2020. This research includes a review of the different types of GI and its contribution for urban heat mitigation and human thermal comfort. In addition to analysing different mitigation strategies, numerical simulation tools that are commonly used are also reviewed. It is seen that ENVI-met is one of the modelling tools that is considered as a reliable to simulate different mitigation strategies and hence has been widely used in the recent past. Considering its popularity in urban microclimate studies, this article also provides a review of ENVI-met simulation results that were reported in the reviewed papers. It was observed that the majority of the research was conducted on a limited spatial scale and focused on temperature and human thermal comfort. |
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