Abstract
Research on urban heat mitigation has been growing in recent years with many of the studies focusing on green infrastructure (GI) as a strategy to mitigate the adverse effects of an urban heat island (UHI). This paper aims at presenting a review of the range of findings from GI research for urban heat mitigation through a review of scientific articles published during the years 2009–2020. This research includes a review of the different types of GI and its contribution for urban heat mitigation and human thermal comfort. In addition to analysing different mitigation strategies, numerical simulation tools that are commonly used are also reviewed. It is seen that ENVI-met is one of the modelling tools that is considered as a reliable to simulate different mitigation strategies and hence has been widely used in the recent past. Considering its popularity in urban microclimate studies, this article also provides a review of ENVI-met simulation results that were reported in the reviewed papers. It was observed that the majority of the research was conducted on a limited spatial scale and focused on temperature and human thermal comfort.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 3577 |
| Journal | Water (Switzerland) |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue number | 12 |
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| Publication status | Published - Dec 2020 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Acknowledgments: The authors would like to acknowledge and thank the Australia Awards, which provided the research scholarship to the first author. The authors would also like to acknowledge the funding support provided by the City of Melbourne through ‘Green our Rooftop Demonstration Green Roof Collaborative Research Grant’. Man Sing Wong would like to thank the funding support by grant (Grant no. 15602619) from the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong SAR.
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