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| Chicago’s
Urban Heat Island Initiative |
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CityofChicago.org |
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http://www.epa.gov/heatisland/pilot/chicago.html |
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The Urban Heat Island Initiative of the City of
Chicago serves to educate the public, local
businesses
and government about the urban heat island effect,
and measures that can be taken to cool the city.
It includes specific information, examples and
general resources about the use of light covered
surfaces
for buildings and roads, as well as the planting
of urban trees and gardens in strategic locations
to reduce heat generation and cooling costs. |
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| EPA:
Heat Island Effect |
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U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency |
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http://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming.nsf/content/ActionsLocalHeatIslandEffect.html |
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Information about Heat Island Effect. |
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| Heat
Island Group |
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Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory |
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http://eetd.lbl.gov/HeatIsland/ |
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The Heat Island Group researches solutions to the
heat island effect, which includes the impacts
of
cooler roofing and pavement materials as well as
urban planting programs. The Heat Island Group
also
develops guideline standards to mitigate the heat
island effect through regional and local building
design codes. The website includes descriptions
of their projects, and online reports and articles. |
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| Urban
Climatology and Air Quality |
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NASA
Marchall Space Flight Center, Global Hydrology &
Climate Center (GHCC) |
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http://www.ghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/urban/ |
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The Urban Heat Island and Air Quality studies seek
to observe, measure, model, and analyze how
rapid
growth or urban areas impacts the region's climate
and air quality. The site describes The Urban
Heat
Island Pilot Project sponsored by the EPA and NASA,
which is developing “best practices”
for cities to mitigate the urban heat island effect.
There are numerous links to new articles and other
organizations and projects, as well as educational
material right on the site. |
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| The
Urban Heat Island Phenomenon and Potential Mitigation
Strategies |
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1999
National Planning Conference Proceedings Authors:
M.G. EstesJr., V. Gorsevski, C. Russell, D. Quattrochi,
and J. Luvall |
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http://www.asu.edu/caed/proceedings99/ESTES/ESTES.HTM |
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A survey of urban heat island research is provided
to describe how heat islands develop, urban
landscape
and meteorological characteristics that facilitate
development, use of aircraft remote sensing
data,
and why heat islands are of interest to planners,
elected officials, and the public. The roles
of
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA), the Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA),
other federal agencies, national laboratories and
universities, state and local governments, and
non-governmental
organizations (NGOs) in studying the urban heat
island effect and developing mitigation strategies
are explored. Barriers that hamper mitigation efforts
and case studies in Atlanta and Salt Lake City
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discussed. |
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| Urban
Heat Island Summit: Mitigation of and Adaptation
to Extreme Summer Heat. Agenda and presentations |
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Toronto
Atmospheric Fund and the Clean Air Partnership,
May 1-4, 2002, Toronto, Canada |
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http://www.cleanairpartnership.org/agenda.htm |
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The North American Urban Heat Island Summit was
a gathering of researchers, municipal leaders
and
practitioners form across Canada and the U.S. to
discuss trends and challenges, best practices
and
the latest science on heat island adaptation and
mitigation measures. Final papers and presentations
from the Summit can be downloaded from the site. |
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| Impacts
& Adaptation Resources > Urban Heat Island >
NY Metro |
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| Cool
City Project: NYC Urban Heat Island Mitigation
Strategies
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Institute
for Social and Economic Research and Policy, Columbia
University, Research Initiatives |
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http://www.iserp.columbia.edu/research/seed_grants/policy/cool_city.html |
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The Cool City Project, a research project at Columbia
University, is an involvement between community-based
organizations and residents to define and develop
strategies for urban heat island mitigation,
in
order to evaluate the most effective institutional
mechanisms and public policies for further implementation
of UHI mitigation within New York City. This project
is a collaboration between urban planners, architects,
economists, health scientists and geophysicists
in order to identify neighborhoods with the
highest
surface temperatures; identify effective institutional
mechanisms and economic incentives to promote
the
adoption of neighborhood-based heat island mitigation
and energy conservation measures, and assess
their
environmental and public health impacts. |
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| Hot
Nights in the City: Global Warming, Sea-Level
Rise
and the New York Metropolitan Region |
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Environmental
Defense Fund, 36pp., 1999 Authors: J. Bloomfield,
M. Smith, and N. Thompson [Staff Scientist] |
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http://www.environmentaldefense.org/documents/493_HotNY.pdf |
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This report is one of EDF's regional impacts studies,
focusing on implications of climate change for
the
New York metropolitan area: sea-level rise and
flooding, extreme heat and air quality. The
report draws attention
to human health and coastal impacts on homes, businesses
and infrastructure based on several warming
scenarios
for the City. (PDF) |
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| Modeling
Heat and Air Quality Impacts of Changing Urban
Land
Uses and Climate |
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New
York Climate & Health Project, Columbia University,
Mailman School of Public Health |
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http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/dept/sph/ehs/NYCHP1.html |
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A
brief description of a current research project
at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public
Health, examining the potential public health
impacts
of heat and air pollution under future scenario's
of climate change and land use in the NYC metropolitan
region. |
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| New
York City in 2050 |
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Science
Friday, National Public Radio, January 23, 2004 |
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http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2004/Jan/hour2_012304.html |
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National Public Radio's, Science Friday takes a
look at what New York City might be like in
the
year 2050, after a century of human-induced climate
change. Sustainable design, from green office
buildings
to living roofs, is discussed. |
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| Urban
Heat Island and Climate Change: An Assessment
of
Interacting and Possible Adaptations in the Camden,
New Jersey Region |
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NJ
Dept. of Environmental Protection, Research Project
Summary,
April 2004 Authors: W.D. Solecki, C. Rosenzweig,
G. Pope, M. Chopping, R. Goldberg, and A. Polissar
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http://www.state.nj.us/dep/dsr/research/urbanheat.pdf |
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This report summarizes a project to raise awareness
among policy-makers and the general public about
the existence and causes of the Urban Heat Island,
to enable them to make informed decision about
minimizing
impacts on air quality, human health, energy demand
and regional economy and to provide tools for
Urban
Heat Island mitigation under changing climate conditions.
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