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Counteracting Urban Heat Island Effects in a Global Climate Change Scenario

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Urban heat islands are a new type of microclimatic phenomenon that causes a significant increase in the temperature of cities compared to surrounding areas. The phenomenon has been enforced by the current trend towards climate change. Although experts consider urban heat islands an urgent European Union public health concern, there are too few policies that address it. The EU carried out a project to learn more about this phenomenon through pilot initiatives. The pilots included feasibility studies and strategies for appropriately altering planning rules and governance to tackle the problem of urban heat islands.

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628

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: Springer., 2016

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English

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628

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Environmental Sciences

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Francesco Musco

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Firli

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