A rapid fine-scale approach to modelling urban bioclimatic conditions

Back, Yannick; Bach, Peter M.; Jasper-Tönnies, Alrun; Rauch, Wolfgang; Kleidorfer, Manfred

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143732

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“…In the field of SDG Urban Localization, a rapid-modeling approach for assessing urban bioclimatic conditions was developed by [164] to carry out fine-scale simulations. Reference [86] employed ENVI-met, a Computational Fluid Dynamic model for assessing environmental quality in a public space.…”

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“…The Malmquist Index was used by [119] to measure the evolution of efficiency according to technological changes produced in Spanish cities against SDG 6. The UTCI (Universal Thermal Climate Index) was used by [164] to assess bioclimatic conditions in urban environments, as it was found to be a better representative of local thermal conditions than other indexes, such as Standard Effective Temperature, Humidex, and Physiological Equivalent Temperature. A renovation rate indicator for accurate monitoring in retrofitting the building stock against SDGs 7, 11, and 13 was proposed by [125].…”

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Progress by Research to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals in the EU: A Systematic Literature Review

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Scientific research has been acknowledged to play a pivotal role in achieving the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda. Vice-versa, since its adoption, the 2030 Agenda has been reinvigorating the academic production on sustainable development. This study provides a systematic literature review of the most used and newly developed approaches by academic research to support the achievement of the SDGs in the EU. The results are presented by descriptive, bibliometric, and content analysis. The descriptive analysis highlights a rising interest of scholars in operationalizing the 2030 Agenda, with a growing interest at the urban level. A text-mining tool was employed to scan the most investigated SDGs in the selected papers. Major interest by scholars is devoted to environmental concerns (especially linked to SDG 13, 7, 6, 12, and 15), while social issues (e.g., SDG 4, 5, and 10) still deserve more research. The bibliometric analysis unveiled poor intra-cluster connections, highlighting the need for more transdisciplinary research. The most recurrent research fields on the SDGs in the EU are governance, circular economy, ecosystem services, urban localization, and decision making. We advise future studies to focus on gaps highlighted and adopt a system perspective, boosting Policy Coherence across governance levels and scales of implementation by looking at trade-offs and assessing context-specific priorities.

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Progress by Research to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals in the EU: A Systematic Literature Review

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“…peak flow reduction) might not be sufficient in an asset management approach because of the interconnection with existing (piped) urban drainage systems. The performance of the system regarding the other benefits, for example, urban bioclimate (Back et al 2021), can change over time due to interdependencies between them and even have adverse effects on the rest. For example, increased biodiversity in plant life can affect the infiltration capacity and thus the hydraulic performance; or planting a single, fast-growing, short-lived species can capture carbon as an NBS benefit to climate change but has little potential to store that carbon over the long term (Cohen-Shacham et al 2016).…”

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Asset management for blue-green infrastructures: a scoping review

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Urban drainage systems have developed way beyond the traditional piped combined or separate sewer systems. Many ‘new’ systems are being introduced, ranging from stormwater infiltration facilities to green roofs. However, the widely advocated blue-green infrastructures are typically overlooked by asset managers, which will very likely have detrimental effects on their performance, service life, and wider adoption. In this paper, the working group on Urban Drainage Asset Management (UDAM – https://udam.home.blog/) of the IWA and IAHR Joint Committee on Urban Drainage discusses whether the state-of-the-art knowledge based on conventional sewer asset management is sufficient to develop asset management for blue-green infrastructures (BGIs). The discussion is structured around the five preconditions for effective control and asset management. Results show that asset management for BGIs is still underdeveloped due to a lack of monitoring techniques covering the broad range of BGI benefits and performance indicators, inspection techniques covering relevant failure mechanisms and models describing these mechanisms, maintenance and rehabilitation options, and sufficient support tools to aid inhabitants in the operation and maintenance of their individual BGIs such as green roofs or vegetated swales.

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“…Surface urban heat islands (SUHIs) tend to vary strongly with changes in time and space and have been extensively studied in North America, Europe and East Asia using ground‐station records and by conducting numerical simulations (Manoli et al., 2019; Sun et al., 2016; Zhao et al., 2014). Applying fine‐resolution mesoscale, regional climate and global circulation models, the effects of urbanization on thermal, hydrological, and physical properties of the land surface have been well assessed on various spatiotemporal scales (Back et al., 2021; Chen & Zhang, 2018; R. Du et al., 2022; Wang & Li, 2021; Zhao et al., 2014). However, from a practical point of view, conducting numerical simulations cannot replace the observed assessment of SUHIs in supporting active policy measures that mitigate the heat‐related health risks in urban areas (Kim & Brown, 2021b).…”

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“…• Rapid urbanization leads to strong differences in the annual cycle of the land surface temperature (LST) between urban and nonurban areas • A new method based on the similarity of annual cycles of the LST is proposed to quantify regional heat island effects • This method adapts well to complex terrain, land-cover changes and climate variations and has great potential in urban planning ground-station records and by conducting numerical simulations (Manoli et al, 2019;Sun et al, 2016;Zhao et al, 2014). Applying fine-resolution mesoscale, regional climate and global circulation models, the effects of urbanization on thermal, hydrological, and physical properties of the land surface have been well assessed on various spatiotemporal scales (Back et al, 2021;Chen & Zhang, 2018;R. Du et al, 2022;Wang & Li, 2021;Zhao et al, 2014).…”

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An Approach to Characterizing the Spatial Pattern and Scale of Regional Heat Islands Over Urban Agglomerations

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Geophysical Research Letters

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Under the driving forces of economic globalization, new industrialization, and the fast transportation, urban agglomerations are gradually becoming the most important urban spatial form for China's New Urbanization plan in recent years (Fang & Yu, 2017). Rapid urbanization has changed urban climate and aggravated summertime heat waves over the Jing-Jin-Ji, Yangtze River Delta (YRD) and Pearl River Delta urban agglomerations in China through creating regional surface urban heat islands (RSUHIs) (Y. Du et al., 2007;Liu et al., 2018). The interaction of global warming and rapid urbanization is changing the urban thermal environment and exposing more people to heat stress in large cities (Kim & Brown, 2021a). Socially and economically vulnerable older and low-income residents in suburban and rural areas around urban agglomerations might confront enhanced heat-related health risks (Bradford et al., 2015). World Cities Report 2020 by the United Nation's Habitat program suggested that unplanned urbanization represents a threat to environmental sustainability, biodiversity, energy consumption and land-use change (Knudsen et al., 2020). Accurately estimating the spatial pattern and scale of RSUHIs is conducive to improving urban planning and minimizing heat-related health risks (Fang & Yu, 2017;Kim & Brown, 2021a).Dramatic urbanization is taking place in many developing countries, and insights into the spatial pattern and scale of RSUHIs can provide guidance for urban planning on a regional scale and help establish policies that mitigate the adverse effects of RSUHIs (Kim & Brown, 2021b). Surface urban heat islands (SUHIs) tend to vary strongly with changes in time and space and have been extensively studied in North America, Europe and East Asia using

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A rapid fine-scale approach to modelling urban bioclimatic conditions

Cited by 26 publications

References 77 publications

Progress by Research to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals in the EU: A Systematic Literature Review

Progress by Research to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals in the EU: A Systematic Literature Review

Asset management for blue-green infrastructures: a scoping review

An Approach to Characterizing the Spatial Pattern and Scale of Regional Heat Islands Over Urban Agglomerations

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