TY - CHAP
T1 - Climate Change, Cities, and the Importance of Cooling Strategies, Practices, and Policies
AU - Cheshmehzangi, Ali
AU - He, Bao Jie
AU - Sharifi, Ayyoob
AU - Matzarakis, Andreas
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Cities, the prominent place of human settlements, face various mega challenges. Among them, extreme heat challenge, the combined effect of heat waves and heat islands, is the deadliest disaster (Anderson and Bell in Environmental Health Perspectives 119(2):210–218, 2011; City of Sydney, Adapting for climate change: A long term strategy for the city of Sydney, 2015; De Bono et al., Environment Alert Bulletin, 2:4, 2004). For instance, the extreme heat event in Europe in 2003 killed about 72,000 people (WMO, United Nations News, 2021), and the extreme heat event in June–August 2022 caused more than 53,000 deaths.
AB - Cities, the prominent place of human settlements, face various mega challenges. Among them, extreme heat challenge, the combined effect of heat waves and heat islands, is the deadliest disaster (Anderson and Bell in Environmental Health Perspectives 119(2):210–218, 2011; City of Sydney, Adapting for climate change: A long term strategy for the city of Sydney, 2015; De Bono et al., Environment Alert Bulletin, 2:4, 2004). For instance, the extreme heat event in Europe in 2003 killed about 72,000 people (WMO, United Nations News, 2021), and the extreme heat event in June–August 2022 caused more than 53,000 deaths.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-981-99-3675-5_1
DO - 10.1007/978-981-99-3675-5_1
M3 - Book Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85191372174
T3 - Urban Sustainability
SP - 2
EP - 19
BT - Urban Sustainability
PB - Springer
ER -