Urban and Regional Heat Island Adaptation Measures in the Netherlands
- ISBN-10
- 9492516926
- ISBN-13
- 9789492516923
- Pages
- 310
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017
- Author
- Leyre Echevarría Icaza
Description
The urban planner ́s role should be adapted to the current globalised and overspecialised economic and environmental context, envisioning a balance at the regional scale, apprehending not only new technologies, but also new mapping principles, that allow obtaining multidisciplinary integral overviews since the preliminary stages of the design process. The urban heat Island (UHI) is one of the main phenomena affecting the urban climate. In the Netherlands, during the heat wave of 2006, more than 1,000 extra deaths were registered. UHI-related parameters are an example of new elements that should be taken into consideration since the early phases of the design process"
