Urban Heat Adaptation: Potential, Feasibility, Equity

Riccardo Pollo and Maurizio Tiepolo are guest editors of the Urban Heat Adaptation: Potential, Feasibility, Equity, Special Issue of Climate (ISSN 2225-1154). This special issue belongs to the section Sustainable Urban Futures in a Changing Climate.

Special Issue Information
The rise in urban temperatures is an established and much-studied impact of climate change. However, the potential, feasibility, and equity of measures to cool temperatures are still poorly investigated. To overcome this research gap, innovative methodologies are required, and inclusive processes are needed to increase the contribution of local communities and policymakers and enhance scientific knowledge.

This Special Issue aims to provide state-of-the-art information on these topics and show that temperatures can be reduced in specific case studies. Due to their complexity, these topics intersect areas of citizen science, climatology, geomatics, materials technology, sociology, urban design, urban forestry, and urban planning. Topics for consideration include, but are not limited to, the following:

1. The characterisation of warm air spells: their duration, frequency, and vulnerability;
2. Citizen science approaches to climate change awareness, distributed temperature measurement, and adaptation;
3. Urban morphology and land surface temperatures, including a comparison of case studies;
4. The feasibility, potential impact, and environmental equity of greening;
5. Thermal comfort at the neighbourhood scale: tools, modelling, and strategies for adaptation;
6. The effects of heat waves on the health of fragile people, such as the disabled and chronically ill, and their specific thermal comfort needs.

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