A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Heat Islands
Abstract The aim of the chapter Heat Islands is to provide the reader basic information about this ongoing problematic. Description, causes, terminology, history. The chapter is a continuation of a previous one – Climate Change Is Not a Threat of Future, It Is Already Happening Now, but in a smaller scale. The chapter presents reasons and the causes of creating heat islands in specific areas. In the end, possibilities how to beat heat island are listed. The chapter explains theoretically, how roofing materials, paving materials and trees and vegetation may cause the change. Again, with the focus on a green roofs.
Heat Islands
Abstract The aim of the chapter Heat Islands is to provide the reader basic information about this ongoing problematic. Description, causes, terminology, history. The chapter is a continuation of a previous one – Climate Change Is Not a Threat of Future, It Is Already Happening Now, but in a smaller scale. The chapter presents reasons and the causes of creating heat islands in specific areas. In the end, possibilities how to beat heat island are listed. The chapter explains theoretically, how roofing materials, paving materials and trees and vegetation may cause the change. Again, with the focus on a green roofs.
Heat Islands
Poórová, Zuzana (author) / Vranayová, Zuzana (author)
2019-09-26
10 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
Cooling , Green roof , Heat island , Humidity , Paving materials , Roofing materials , Suburban , Temperature , Tree , Urban , Vegetation Environment , Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology , Building Construction and Design , Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts , Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution , Building Materials
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