Special Issue: Adaptive responses to extreme heat in cities
Guest Editors
Prof. Junyi Hua
School of International Affairs and Public Administration, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
Email: huajunyi@ouc.edu.cn
Prof. Shi Yin
School of Architecture, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
Email: aryinshi@hku.hk
Prof. Sheng Liu
School of Architecture, Southwest Jiao Tong University, Chengdu, China
Email: sheng.liu@link.cuhk.edu.hk
Manuscript Topics
Cities are home for over the half of the world population. Climate change has contributed to increasing and intensifying extreme heat events in urban areas in different climates, which have adverse impacts on society, particularly human health. The rising risk of extreme heat aggravated by the urban heat island effect has been and will be inevitable. Furthermore, the risk and related demographic, socioeconomic, and environmental factors can exacerbate inequality. Therefore, there is an urgent need of short-time and long-term responses to extreme heat in cities to increase adaptive capacities and reduce the risk for all urbanites. Short-term responses include measuring and mapping urban heat and related vulnerability, establishing early warning systems and emergency plans, and improving public education and increasing public awareness. Additionally, long-term planning and design of the built environment in cities for heat mitigation are also important. Strategies for buildings, materials, infrastructure, urban morphology, and landscapes can be individually or synthetically adopted to enhance physical resilience to extreme heat. Both short-term and long-term responses can be implemented at scales from community to city, and policy transformations are needed to involve all stakeholders including governments, communities, and citizens into adaptive plans and actions. Both empirical and theoretical research on the specific topic and aspects mentioned above are necessary for adaptation decision-making.
The topics of this special issue include, but not limited to, the following:
• Population exposure to urban heat islands and extreme heat
• Urban heat vulnerability
• Heat health-related risks in urban areas
• Inequalities in heat risks
• Interaction between built environments and thermal environments
• Strategies of heat-adaptive planning and design of building environments
• Urban governance for heat adaption
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