Urban climates in Latin America
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Urban climates in Latin America
Springer, c2019
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  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book describes the observation of urban climates in Latin-American and their relationships with urban sprawl, the economic emergence of Latin American countries, social segregation, urban ecology, disasters and resilience. The chapters include contributions dealing with urban heat islands, local climate zones, thermal comfort, air pollution, extreme climate index, green infrastructure, health issues and adaptions based on the socio-economic background of urban areas.
This book revises the role of urban planning and environmental governance, highlighting the singularities in climate adaptation policies in developing countries.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction (Cristian Henriquez and Hugo Romero).- Part I: Urban Heat Island, Local Climate Zone and Thermal Comfort.- Chapter 2. Urban Climates of Large Cities: Comparison of Urban Heat Island Effect in Latin American (Pablo Sarricolea and Oliver Meseguer-Ruiz).- Chapter 3. Urban Climate in the South-American Coastal Cities of Guayaquil, Lima, Antofagasta and Valparaiso and its Impacts on the Buildings' Energy Efficiency (Massimo Palme, Luis Inostroza, Geovanna Villacreses, Claudio Carrasco and Andrea Lobato).- Chapter 4. Improving Urban Planning in a Middle Temperate Argentinean City. Combining Urban Climate Mapping with Local Climate Zones (Natasha Picone and Alicia Campo).- Chapter 5. Thermal Differences, Comfort / Discomfort and Humidex Summer Climate in Mar del Plata, Argentina (Monica Garcia).- Chapter 6. A Comparative Study of Thermal Comfort in Public Spaces in the Cit-ies of Concepcion And Chillan, Chile (Pamela Smith, Cristobal Lamarca and Cristian Henriquez).- Part II: Air Pollution and Urban Climates.- Chapter 7. Urban Air Pollution (Hector Jorquera, Lupita Montoya and Nestor Y. Rojas).- Chapter 8. Urban Trees and its Relationships with Air Pollution by Particulate Matter and Ozone in Santiago de Chile (Margarita Prendez, Mauricio Araya, Carla Criollo, Claudia Egas, Ivan Farias, Raul Fuentealba and Edgardo Gonzalez).- Chapter 9. Urban Climates and the Unsustainable Development of Chilean Ci-ties (Hugo Romero).- Part III: Climate Disasters, Health and Urban Resilience.- Chapter 10. The Urban Climate System and the Impacts of Flooding on Rio De Janeiro (RJ), Brazil (Nubia Beray Armond and Joao Lima Sant'Anna Neto).- Chapter 11. 50-Years of Climate Extreme Indices Trends and Inventory of Natu-ral Disasters in Chilean Cities (1965-2015) (Cristian Henriquez, Jorge Quense, Claudia Villarroel and Cindy Mallea).- Chapter 12. Urban Climate and Dengue Epidemics in Brazil (Wilson Roseghini, Francisco Mendonca and Pietro Ceccato).- Chapter 13. Green Infrastructure Planning to Tackle Climate Change in Latin American Cities (Alexis Vasquez, Emanuel Giannotti, Elizabeth Galdamez, Paola Velasquez and Carolina Devoto).- Chapter 14. Incorporating Resilience and Adaptive Strategies to Climate Change in Urban and Territorial Planning in Uruguay (Adriana Goni Mazzitelli, Ingrid Roche, Pablo Sierra and Isabel Gadino).- Chapter 15. Assessing Climate Risk in Small and Intermediate Towns and Cities: A Preliminary Rapid Appraisal Tool and its Application in Florencia, Colombia (Ayesha Salas and Jonathan Barton).
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