Analysis of land use/land cover change, population shift, and their effects on spatiotemporal patterns of urban heat islands in metropolitan Shanghai, China

Zhang, Hao; Qi, Zhi Fang; Ye, Xin Yue; Cai, Yuan; chun, Wei; Chen, Ming nan

doi:10.1016/j.apgeog.2013.07.021

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“…An urban heat island is observed when there are increases in local temperatures where open, wooded or green areas have been replaced by high density urban settlements where heat absorbing concrete and asphalt structures dominate the landscape (Zhang et al 2013, Gago et al 2013, Petralli et al 2014 …”

Section: Urban Heat Islands Greenhouse Gases (Ghg) and Rising Local mentioning

confidence: 99%

The health impacts of traffic-related exposures in urban areas: Understanding real effects, underlying driving forces and co-producing future directions

Khreis¹,

Warsow²,

Verlinghieri³

et al. 2016

Journal of Transport & Health

148

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The world is currently witnessing its largest surge of urban growth in human history; a trend that draws attention to the need to understand and address health impacts of urban living. Whilst transport is instrumental in this urbanisation wave, it also has significant positive and negative impacts on population health, which are disproportionately distributed.In this paper, we bring together expertise in transport engineering, transport and urban planning, research and strategic management, epidemiology and health impact assessment in an exercise to scope and discuss the health impacts of transport in urban areas. Adopting a cross-disciplinary, coproduction approach, we explore the key driving forces behind the current state of urban mobility and outline recommendations for practices that could facilitate positioning health at the core of transport design, planning and policy.Current knowledge on the health-related impacts of urban transport shows that motor vehicle traffic is causing significant premature mortality and morbidity through motor vehicle crashes, physical inactivity and traffic-related environmental exposures including increases in air pollution, noise and temperature levels, as well as reductions in green space. Trends of rapid and car-centred urbanisation, mass motorisation and a tendency of policy to favour car mobility and undervalue health in the transport and development agenda has both led to, and exacerbated the negative health impacts of the transport systems. Simultaneously, we also argue that the benefits of new transport schemes on the economy are emphasised whilst the range and severity of identified health impacts associated with transport are often downplayed. We conclude the paper by outlining stakeholders recommendations for the adoption of a cross-disciplinary co-production approach that takes a health-aware perspective and has the potential to promote a paradigm shift in transport practices.

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Section: Urban Heat Islands Greenhouse Gases (Ghg) and Rising Local mentioning

confidence: 99%

The health impacts of traffic-related exposures in urban areas: Understanding real effects, underlying driving forces and co-producing future directions

Khreis¹,

Warsow²,

Verlinghieri³

et al. 2016

Journal of Transport & Health

148

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“…Other studies suggest that a 10% increase in green spaces could result in a 0.86°C decrease in LST (Li et al, 2012). The spatial variation of UHI from city center to outskirts is particularly significant in large metropolitan areas (Kuang et al, 2015;Zhang et al, 2013). Given the complex thermal background, green spaces could produce a different latent heat of evapotranspiration and thus result in diverse cooling effects during summer (Spronken-smith et al, 2000;Sun and Chen, 2012).…”

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Effects of green space dynamics on urban heat islands: Mitigation and diversification

2017

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A B S T R A C TUnderstanding how green spaces affect urban temperature is crucial for assessing thermal benefits of landscape planning. This study investigated green space dynamics and land surface temperature (LST) in the Beijing metropolis. Landscape types were classified from QuickBird (2002) ). (2) LST change was not significant in the unchanged (0-0.19°C) and exchanged green space (in the range of −0.02-0.25°C). However, there were minor decreases of LST in areas of green expansion (in the range of −1.11°C to −0.67°C) and major increases in LST in the areas of green losses (1.64-2.21°C). The results indicated that the number of green spaces is not the only criteria that should be assessed for temperature mitigation. Ecosystem services of temperature mitigation are not equal between the loss and expansion of green spaces even within same area. Greater focus on protecting natural forests in cities might provide greater benefits for climate mitigation.

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“…There has been quite a significant number of publications to investigate the impacts of LUCC (land use/land cover changes) on the thermal environment [27][28][29][30][31]. Rao is the first one to attempt the use of remote sensing technology in the study of UHI [32].…”

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Mapping the Influence of Land Use/Land Cover Changes on the Urban Heat Island Effect—A Case Study of Changchun, China

Yang

Yan

et al. 2017

Sustainability

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Abstract:The spatio-temporal patterns of land use/land cover changes (LUCC) can significantly affect the distribution and intensity of the urban heat island (UHI) effect. However, few studies have mapped a clear picture of the influence of LUCC on UHI. In this study, both qualitative and quantitative models are employed to explore the effect of LUCC on UHI. UHI and LUCC maps were retrieved from Landsat data acquired from 1984, 1992, 2000, 2007, and 2014 to show their spatio-temporal patterns. The results showed that: (1) both the patterns of LUCC and UHI have had dramatic changes in the past 30 years. The urban area of Changchun increased more than four times, from 143.15 km 2 in 1984 to 577.45 km 2 in 2014, and the proportion of UHI regions has increased from 15.27% in 1984 to 29.62% in 2014; (2) the spatiotemporal changes in thermal environment were consistent with the process of urbanization. The average LST of the study area has been continuously increasing as many other land use types have been transformed to urban regions. The mean temperatures were higher in urban regions than rural areas over all of the periods, but the UHI intensity varied based on different measurements; and (3) the thermal environment inside the city varied widely even within a small area. The LST possesses a very strong positive relationship with impervious surface area (ISA), and the relationship has become stronger in recent years. The UHI we employ, specifically in this study, is SUHI (surface urban heat island).

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Analysis of land use/land cover change, population shift, and their effects on spatiotemporal patterns of urban heat islands in metropolitan Shanghai, China

Cited by 317 publications

References 40 publications

The health impacts of traffic-related exposures in urban areas: Understanding real effects, underlying driving forces and co-producing future directions

The health impacts of traffic-related exposures in urban areas: Understanding real effects, underlying driving forces and co-producing future directions

Effects of green space dynamics on urban heat islands: Mitigation and diversification

Mapping the Influence of Land Use/Land Cover Changes on the Urban Heat Island Effect—A Case Study of Changchun, China

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