The Urban Heat Island
Stewart, Iain D. (Global Cities Institute, University of Toronto, Canada) / Mills, Gerald (Associate Professor, School of Geography, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland)
The Urban Heat Island (UHI) is an area of growing interest for many people studying the urban environment and local/global climate change. The UHI has been scientifically studied for 200 years and, although it is an apparently simple phenomenon, there is considerable confusion around the different types of UHI and their assessment. The Urban Heat Island-A Guidebook provides simple instructions for measuring and analysing the phenomenon, as wel...