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Adapting to Climate Change: Green Areas in Cities as Cooling Safeguards
More than a half of the world’s human population is located in urban areas, and the urbanization process has a positive trend nowadays. Urban ecosystems significantly alter surface temperatures and generally microclimate due to massive replacements of natural vegetation by man-made constructions. In addition to climate change negative impact, these factors enforce extreme heat effects; heat waves and heat islands have recently been characterized as record-breaking in terms of occurrence and frequency in cities of Eastern Europe and Ukraine in particular. That is why an importance of data-driven and research-based sustainable management of urban vegetation cannot be overestimated, as well as a proper systemic monitoring of city green areas, its sufficiency in mitigating extreme heat events, and other related climate change impacts. A participatory, transparent, interactive, inclusive, and accessible complex inventory system for urban vegetation is crucially needed in every municipality. In this chapter, two research-based case studies are analyzed that illustrate a mitigating potential of urban vegetation toward heat waves in Kyiv City, as well as the crucial role of urban greening of courtyards in high-rise residential districts in forming a comfortable living environment for Kyiv citizens. The presented case studies illustrate a possibility of community-driven research that can serve as a scientific basis for strategic adaptation planning of urban population and green areas to climate change in Ukraine. The examples of recently developed municipal initiatives of interactive urban vegetation inventories are described also, as an attempt to set up a community-based approach to urban green infrastructure management in some Ukrainian cities, using open-access satellite imagery, thermal mapping, and UAV mapping methods.
Adapting to Climate Change: Green Areas in Cities as Cooling Safeguards
More than a half of the world’s human population is located in urban areas, and the urbanization process has a positive trend nowadays. Urban ecosystems significantly alter surface temperatures and generally microclimate due to massive replacements of natural vegetation by man-made constructions. In addition to climate change negative impact, these factors enforce extreme heat effects; heat waves and heat islands have recently been characterized as record-breaking in terms of occurrence and frequency in cities of Eastern Europe and Ukraine in particular. That is why an importance of data-driven and research-based sustainable management of urban vegetation cannot be overestimated, as well as a proper systemic monitoring of city green areas, its sufficiency in mitigating extreme heat events, and other related climate change impacts. A participatory, transparent, interactive, inclusive, and accessible complex inventory system for urban vegetation is crucially needed in every municipality. In this chapter, two research-based case studies are analyzed that illustrate a mitigating potential of urban vegetation toward heat waves in Kyiv City, as well as the crucial role of urban greening of courtyards in high-rise residential districts in forming a comfortable living environment for Kyiv citizens. The presented case studies illustrate a possibility of community-driven research that can serve as a scientific basis for strategic adaptation planning of urban population and green areas to climate change in Ukraine. The examples of recently developed municipal initiatives of interactive urban vegetation inventories are described also, as an attempt to set up a community-based approach to urban green infrastructure management in some Ukrainian cities, using open-access satellite imagery, thermal mapping, and UAV mapping methods.
Adapting to Climate Change: Green Areas in Cities as Cooling Safeguards
Luetz, Johannes M. (editor) / Ayal, Desalegn (editor) / Khalaim, Oleksandra (author)
Handbook of Climate Change Management ; Chapter: 2 ; 2873-2887
2021-11-04
15 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
Climate change , Green areas , Urban vegetation inventory , Heat wave , Heat island , Satellite imagery , Thermal mapping , Heat tolerance Environment , Climate Change , Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology , Environmental Management , Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice , Earth and Environmental Science
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