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Optimizing retro-reflective surfaces to untrap radiation and cool cities
Extreme heat and its various impacts are a growing threat to cities and their residents, and it is increasingly clear that portfolios of solutions are needed to mitigate the resulting risks. Here we comprehens...
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Introduction
As cities grow, they become more significant contributors to climate change while also being vulnerable to its effects, posing risks also for their citizens’ health and well-being. Urgent actions are needed to...
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Book and Conference Proceedings
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Book and Conference Proceedings
Urban Resilience, Livability, and Climate Adaptation
Health, Environmental Dynamics, and Societal Well-Being
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Open AccessEffect of time-of-day on human dynamic thermal perception
Implementing heating and cooling set-point temperature modulations in buildings can promote energy savings and boost energy flexibility. However, time and time-of-day requirements in current indoor climate reg...
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Open AccessMulti-domain human-oriented approach to evaluate human comfort in outdoor environments
Human comfort outdoors is widely investigated, but most studies explore the comfort domains singularly. This paper aimed to evaluate human comfort in parks, verifying the importance of using a multi-domain (si...
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Open AccessA Global Building Occupant Behavior Database
This paper introduces a database of 34 field-measured building occupant behavior datasets collected from 15 countries and 39 institutions across 10 climatic zones covering various building types in both commer...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Application of Crowd Sensing for Sustainable Management of Smart Cities
Cities are key contributors to the climate system alteration and the urban environment is, in turn, significantly affected by the climate change effects, such as the increasing occurrences of extreme weather e...
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Human Adaptation to Higher Ambient Temperature
The on-going climate change is leading to a progressively warmer world where extreme weather events, including heat waves (HWs), are going to be more frequent and intense. While limiting the anthropogenic cont...
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A Mobile Vehicle-Based Methodology for Dynamic Microclimate Analysis
Accurate monitoring is critical for better understanding cities’ microclimate conditions and safeguard citizens’ health. Previous studies have performed microclimate analyses of urbanized areas by implementing...
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Open AccessIntra-urban microclimate investigation in urban heat island through a novel mobile monitoring system
Monitoring microclimate variables within cities with high accuracy is an ongoing challenge for a better urban resilience to climate change. Assessing the intra-urban characteristics of a city is of vital impor...
