Heat islands understanding and mitigating heat in urban areas /
'An excellent scientific book and a very useful source of knowledge. The author has succeeded in describing in a very comprehensive way all the recent scientific developments in this very important subject. The reader will be fully informed on the causes of heat islands the scientific ways to d...
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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London ; Sterling, VA :
Earthscan,
c2008.
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| 100 | 1 | # | |a Gartland, Lisa, |d 1960- |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Heat islands |b understanding and mitigating heat in urban areas / |c Lisa Gartland. |h [electronic resource] : |
| 260 | # | # | |a London ; |a Sterling, VA : |b Earthscan, |c c2008. |
| 300 | # | # | |a 1 online resource (xiii, 192 p., [8] p. of plates) : |b ill., maps. |
| 504 | # | # | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 | 0 | # | |a List of Figures and Tables; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; Chapter 1 What is a Heat Island?; Chapter 2 Causes of the Heat Island; Chapter 3 Measuring and Modelling Heat Islands; Chapter 4 From Heat Islands to Cool Communities; Chapter 5 All About Cool Roofing; Chapter 6 All About Cool Paving; Chapter 7 Cooling with Trees and Vegetation; Chapter 8 Community Benefits from Heat Island Mitigation; Chapter 9 Cool Community Action Plan; Index; Plates. |
| 520 | # | # | |a 'An excellent scientific book and a very useful source of knowledge. The author has succeeded in describing in a very comprehensive way all the recent scientific developments in this very important subject. The reader will be fully informed on the causes of heat islands the scientific ways to document them and also on all major mitigation techniques. This is a valuable reference not only for climatologists and climate experts but also for building engineers architects building physicists researchers and university students.' Mat Santamouris Associate Professor at the University of Athens Greec. |
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| 650 | # | 0 | |a Urban heat island. |
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