The role of urban planning in climate adaptation: an empirical analysis of UHI in European cities

N. Florenzio, Gianni Guastella, F. Magni, Stefano Pareglio and F. Musco

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 2023, vol. 66, issue 10, 2071-2089

Abstract: This paper empirically analyses the relationship between urban form and Urban Heat Island (UHI) in a dataset of 523 European cities that matches remotely sensed land-use and surface temperature data. A UHI anomaly is defined as an uninterrupted streak of days where the temperature differential measured at 12.00 AM between the city core and its surroundings is higher than a given threshold. From this definition, three UHI indicators are obtained: mean intensity, mean duration of the event and occurrence rate. We study the influence of urban morphology on the UHI indictors with a Heckman model. A sample selection bias is detected for mean intensity and mean duration. The estimation results also show that some urban morphological features have a mitigating effect, while some others play a role at the adaptation level.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2022.2061334

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