Solar reflective pavements—A policy panacea to heat mitigation?

Cities worldwide are piloting the use of solar reflective coatings on roads to mitigate the Urban Heat Island (UHI). Solar reflective pavement has been praised as simple, low-cost solution with a demonstrated ability to reduce surface temperature. Less well understood is the effect of solar reflecti...

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Published in:	Environmental Research Letters
Main Authors:	Ariane Middel, V Kelly Turner, Florian A Schneider, Yujia Zhang, Matthew Stiller
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	IOP Publishing 2020-01-01
Subjects:	cool pavement urban heat island heat mitigation pedestrian thermal exposure
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab87d4