Ventilating cities : Air-flow criteria for healthy and comfortable urban living /
<p>The majority of the world's population live in environments with artificially weakened wind as buildings in urban areas form wind-breaks and reduce wind speeds. Anthropogenic heat is also generated and during the summer dense urban areas suffer from the urban heat island effect, a know...
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Formato: | eBook |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2012.
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Colección: | Springer Geography
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Sumario: | <p>The majority of the world's population live in environments with artificially weakened wind as buildings in urban areas form wind-breaks and reduce wind speeds. Anthropogenic heat is also generated and during the summer dense urban areas suffer from the urban heat island effect, a known urban climate problem. This book discusses how to evaluate the urban wind environment, including ventilation performance and thermal comfort. This book is organized in two parts; Wind Environment and the Urban Environment and Criteria for Assessing Breeze Environments. It includes chapters on sea breeze in urban areas; thermal adaptation and the effect of wind on thermal comfort; health risk of exposures; pollutant transport in dense urban areas; legal regulations for urban ventilation and new criteria for assessing the local wind environment.</p><p>Keywords: urban wind environments, urban heat island, urban climate, land use change, thermal comfort, risk assessment, urban air pollution, urban ventilation</p> |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource ( X, 197 pages) 87 illustration, 25 illustration in color, digital. |
ISBN: | 9789400727717 |