TY - JOUR
T1 - Total assessment for various environmentally conscious techniques from three perspectives
T2 - Mitigation of global warming, mitigation of UHIs, and adaptation to urban warming
AU - Yumino, Saori
AU - Uchida, Taiki
AU - Sasaki, Kiyoshi
AU - Kobayashi, Hikaru
AU - Mochida, Akashi
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (Grant number 26289200 ), and the Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Elsevier Ltd.
PY - 2015/12
Y1 - 2015/12
N2 - This study proposed a new system to assess the effects of countermeasures used to mitigate global warming and urban heat islands (UHIs) and to simultaneously adapt to urban warming. This system was used to investigate the impact of highly reflective materials and greening on the vertical walls of buildings, based on coupled simulations of radiation, conduction, and convection. Under the conditions assumed in this study, greening and highly reflective materials had a positive impact on the mitigation of global warming and UHIs. However, in terms of adapting to urban warming, greening was not very effective and the highly reflective material had a clearly negative impact.
AB - This study proposed a new system to assess the effects of countermeasures used to mitigate global warming and urban heat islands (UHIs) and to simultaneously adapt to urban warming. This system was used to investigate the impact of highly reflective materials and greening on the vertical walls of buildings, based on coupled simulations of radiation, conduction, and convection. Under the conditions assumed in this study, greening and highly reflective materials had a positive impact on the mitigation of global warming and UHIs. However, in terms of adapting to urban warming, greening was not very effective and the highly reflective material had a clearly negative impact.
KW - Global warming
KW - Urban heat island
KW - Urban warming
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U2 - 10.1016/j.scs.2015.05.010
DO - 10.1016/j.scs.2015.05.010
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84944150261
VL - 19
SP - 236
EP - 249
JO - Sustainable Cities and Society
JF - Sustainable Cities and Society
SN - 2210-6707
M1 - 285
ER -