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Salcedo Rahola, T.B. (author), Van Oppen, P. (author), Mulder, K. (author)This report gives an overview of heat stress problems in urban areas of the Netherlands and various options for mitigating this stress. Climate change is causing more occurrences of heat waves. Urban areas in particular will suffer the most, as they are warmer than the countryside. * What is known about the magnitude of heat stress in Dutch...report 2009
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Kleerekoper, L. (author)The Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect assumes that cities accumulate heat and are consequently warmer than their peripheries. During the evening and at night, when the countryside has cooled down and the city retains the heat accumulated during the day, the difference is at its maximum. Global climate change brings a temperature rise in the...master thesis 2009
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Van den Heuvel, B.R. (author)Climate change is characterised by a global increase in temperature and by the increase in the number of extreme weather events like; heatwaves, extreme droughts, and heavy rainfall. Ur-banisation can be seen as a climate problem, for example because of the lack of water storage in cities during times of drought and the lack of drainage during...master thesis 2009
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Zhang, X. (author)The site Dashilan is the most sever UHI area of Beijing currently. Located in the center of Old Beijing, it is consist of historical courtyards with flourish old brand commercial and many cultural heritages. High density (15m2/house), almost fully covered by concrete without enough green space, make this area really have a bad living quality and...master thesis 2010
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Kleerekoper, L. (author), Van den Dobbelsteen, A.A.J.F. (author), Van Dorst, M.J. (author), Hordijk, G.J. (author)Urban Heat Islands in cities in the Netherlands are likely to increase due to a predicted climate change and the continuously increasing expansion and densification of cities, In contrast to rural areas cities are warmer because their paved surfaces retain heat, buildings block cooling winds and the lack of vegetation and water reduces...conference paper 2011
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Boeters, R. (author), Donkers, S. (author), Lee, D.J. (author), Liem, V. (author), Montazeri, S. (author), van Oostveen, J. (author), Pietrzyk, P. (author)The Geomatics Synthesis Project (GSP) was an eight-week culminating group project by seven second-year MSc. Geomatics students. The objective was to undertake group and fieldwork through a real-world project with an external organization. In association with Laboratoire des Sciences de L'Image Informatique et Teledetection (LSIIT) at the...student report 2012
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Slingerland, J.D. (author)Urban areas are confronted with higher temperatures compared to rural areas during summer. Buildings, roads and paved surfaces store the heat during the day and then release it slowly during the evening keeping urban lands hotter than surrounding areas. This phenomenon is called Urban Heat Island effect and the differences can be up to 8°C. A...master thesis 2012
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Van Dooren, D.G. (author)Predictions from the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI 2014a) show that high temperatures and heat waves will occur more frequently in the future. Warm weather leads to even higher temperatures in the city, because of the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect. This is not without risks, since heat can affect the health of people....master thesis 2015
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Akkerman, K.S. (author)Climate change is one of the biggest challenges we face during this century; heatwaves, periods of extreme drought, and heavy rainfall get more common. Increasing temperatures have massive impact on cities. High amounts of paved- and built-up surfaces store heat during the day, making cities warmer than their rural environment. In order to keep...master thesis 2015
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Theunisse, I.A.H. (author)The urban heat island (UHI) describes the phenomena that the city heats up faster and stays warmer than its rural surroundings. The combination of ageing societies and increasing temperature, due to climate change, poses serious challenges for the health and wellbeing of the increasing urban population. Assessments of the urban heat island...master thesis 2015
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Echevarria Icaza, L. (author), van der Hoeven, F.D. (author), van den Dobbelsteen, A.A.J.F. (author)The urban heat island effect is often associated with large metropolises. However, in the Netherlands even small cities will be affected by the phenomenon in the future (Hove et al., 2011), due to the dispersed or mosaic urbanisation patterns in particularly the southern part of the country: the province of North Brabant. This study analyses the...journal article 2016
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Echevarria Icaza, L. (author), van den Dobbelsteen, A.A.J.F. (author), van der Hoeven, F.D. (author)The world is increasingly concerned with sustainability issues. Climate change is not the least of these concerns. The complexity of these issues is such that data and information management form an important means of making the right decisions. Nowadays, however, the sheer quantity of data is overwhelming; large quantities of data demand...journal article 2016
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De Deckere, M.P. (author)Cities face challenges protecting their population from high air temperatures. In the coming century cities tend to become warmer as a consequence of global warming exacerbating the urban heat island. This affects the livability of neighbourhoods with negative effects for the population. The urban heat island is the phenomenon where the city...master thesis 2016
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Ntaladima, A.-M. (author)The Urban Heat Island (UHI) is a phenomenon in which a city forms microclimates which heat up significantly quicker than its rural surroundings. Urban environment has a tremendous and not extensively explored impact on human health and on environment. Until now the UHI was mostly studied by the means of satellite remote sensing techniques. This...master thesis 2016
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Echevarria Icaza, L. (author), van den Dobbelsteen, A.A.J.F. (author), van der Hoeven, F.D. (author)The purpose of this research is to analyse the thermal behaviour of South Holland provincial parks during heat waves, in order to provide design adaptation guidelines to increase their cooling capacity over the hotspots present in their urban surroundings. This research analyses the thermal behaviour of different land use patches (forests,...journal article 2016
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Solcerova, A. (author), van de Ven, F.H.M. (author), Wang, Mengyu (author), Rijsdijk, Michiel (author), van de Giesen, N.C. (author)Rapid urbanization and an increasing number and duration of heat waves poses a need to mitigate extremely high temperatures. One of the repeatedly suggested measures to moderate the so called urban heat island are green roofs. This study investigates several extensive sedum-covered green roofs in Utrecht (NL) and their effect on air...journal article 2017
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Echevarria Icaza, L. (author), van der Hoeven, F.D. (author)Scientists, climatologists, and urban planners have started to recognize the importance of nature at two very different scales: the global (metabolic) and the local (liveability) scales. The regional scale is the one at which these macro and micro approaches overlap. Future predictions foresee an increase of more than 2450 million urban...journal article 2017
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Leal Filho, Walter (author), Echevarria Icaza, L. (author), Omeche Emanche, Victoria (author), Quasem Al-Amin, Abul (author)The impacts of climate changes on cities, which are home to over half of the world’s population, are already being felt. In many cases, the intensive speed with which urban centres have been growing means that little attention has been paid to the role played by climatic factors in maintaining quality of life. Among the negative consequences of...journal article 2017
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Keetels, S.W.J. (author)De wereldwijde verstedelijking heeft onder andere als gevolg dat er een toename is in het temperatuurverschil tussen het platteland en de binnenstad, ook wel het Urban Heat Island effect genoemd. In combinatie met de toenemende opwarming van de aarde zal het Urban Heat Island effect de komende jaren extremer worden, met onder andere als gevolg...master thesis 2017