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Author Archives: Tiziana Susca
Urban Heat Island for Beginners: Part 5 *
Impacts There are many socio-economic impacts related to the increase of urban temperature exacerbated by the increase in the global warming. The implications on the urban environment are mainly: local air quality, heat stress, morbidity, mortality, energy demand and effects … Continue reading
Urban Heat Island for Beginners: Part 4 *
Physics of the UHI Phenomenon The energy balance ambient air-Earth surface is governed by energy gains, losses and storage and can be explained by the following relation: Rn = [K↓ – K↑] – [L↓ – L↑] Equation 1 Global energy … Continue reading
Posted in Planning, city, and society, Territory, landscape, land, Uncategorized
Tagged environment, research, science
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Urban Heat Island for Beginners: Part 2 *
The Two Dimension of the UHI UHI is mainly dependent on the modification of the urban energy fluxes and, as a consequence, on the synoptic conditions in urban and rural sites. UHIs are characterized by two dimensions: an extension and … Continue reading
Urban Heat Island for Beginners: Part 1 *
The urban population is increasing worldwide and the urban expansion or the increase in urban density can affect both the global and the local climate having consequences, in turn, on human health. It is, therefore, important to increase the awareness … Continue reading
The Environmental Assessment Methods: Part 2 *
Environmental assessment methods are important tools to quantify the environmental impacts related to products or services. In the following, some environmental assessment methods related to the building sector are briefly presented. Green Building In 1996 in Canada the Green … Continue reading
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The Environmental Assessment Methods: Part 1 *
Environmental assessment methods are important tools to quantify the environmental impacts related to products or services. In the following some environmental assessment methods related to the building sector are briefly presented. HQE (Haute Qualité Environnementale) The French Association HQE … Continue reading
Earth albedo for beginners: “reflections” on the reason why it has to be included in life cycle assessment*
The Earth has an average planetary albedo of ∽0.3 (Wielicki, Wong, Loeb, Minnis, Priestley, & Kandel, 2005), but considerable differences exist between different areas on the planet. Figure 1 shows that different areas on Earth are characterized by different surface … Continue reading
The Power of Sun: A Snapshot of Global Photovoltaic Markets
Our society greatly relies on energy use. Energy resources, such as oil and gas, are limited and their availability is strongly connected – although not limited – to both the relations with producer-countries and their political stability. In order to … Continue reading
COP21: THE PARIS AGREEMENT IN BULLET POINTS
On 11 December 2015, the United Nations 21st Conference of Parties closed its doors. The outcome of this conference is a historical agreement that recognizes the threat for humankind deriving from potentially irreversible climatic change that requires both a wide … Continue reading
Posted in Sustainability and resilience
Tagged adaptation, agreement, Climate change, COP21, mitigation
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