Overview of urban heat island (UHI) phenomenon towards human thermal comfort

Urban Heat Island (UHI) is expected to be a disastrous challenge to human in the following decade as a result of continuous urbanization without appropriate planning and design. The impacts of UHI are even getting worse due to large population density with improper building design especially in dens...

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Main Authors: Lee, Yee Yong, Md Din, Mohd Fadhil, Ponraj, Mohanadoss, Noor, Zainura Zainon, Kenzo, Iwao, Chelliapan, Shreeshivadasan
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Published: “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iasi, Romania 2017
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spelling my.uthm.eprints.48262021-12-21T04:11:53Z http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/4826/ Overview of urban heat island (UHI) phenomenon towards human thermal comfort Lee, Yee Yong Md Din, Mohd Fadhil Ponraj, Mohanadoss Noor, Zainura Zainon Kenzo, Iwao Chelliapan, Shreeshivadasan TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) HT101-395 Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology Urban Heat Island (UHI) is expected to be a disastrous challenge to human in the following decade as a result of continuous urbanization without appropriate planning and design. The impacts of UHI are even getting worse due to large population density with improper building design especially in dense metropolitan cities. A lot of research has been carried out for UHI phenomenon both in tropical and seasonal climates. There are many factors contributing to the formation of UHI phenomenon that includes increasing rate of urbanization and population density, uncontrollable factors and controllable factors. In a fundamental study, a prolonged exposure to heat impact will significantly contribute to human discomfort and health problems resulting in heat-related illness. The cases of heat related deaths, such as heat strokes, are due to the result of climate changes and further the problem of heat waves will increase year by year. Since the consequences of UHI are considered to be more significant, the severity of the problem should be critically examined and carefully reported. Many research efforts have been implemented for making conceptual design and also a wide range of literature is available for continuing the mitigation strategies. Therefore, this study is emphasized on the critical investigation of the features, factors and impacts of UHI towards evaluating human safety and thermal comfort. Future research direction should also be encompassed on the design and planning parameters as well as assessment of climate change risks and vulnerability for reducing the effects of urban heat island onto human health and safety. “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iasi, Romania 2017 Article PeerReviewed text en http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/4826/1/AJ%202017%20%28666%29.pdf Lee, Yee Yong and Md Din, Mohd Fadhil and Ponraj, Mohanadoss and Noor, Zainura Zainon and Kenzo, Iwao and Chelliapan, Shreeshivadasan (2017) Overview of urban heat island (UHI) phenomenon towards human thermal comfort. Environmental Engineering and Management Journal, 16 (9). pp. 2097-2111. ISSN 1582-9596 https://dx.doi.org/10.30638/eemj.2017.217
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topic TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
HT101-395 Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology
spellingShingle TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
HT101-395 Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology
Lee, Yee Yong
Md Din, Mohd Fadhil
Ponraj, Mohanadoss
Noor, Zainura Zainon
Kenzo, Iwao
Chelliapan, Shreeshivadasan
Overview of urban heat island (UHI) phenomenon towards human thermal comfort
description Urban Heat Island (UHI) is expected to be a disastrous challenge to human in the following decade as a result of continuous urbanization without appropriate planning and design. The impacts of UHI are even getting worse due to large population density with improper building design especially in dense metropolitan cities. A lot of research has been carried out for UHI phenomenon both in tropical and seasonal climates. There are many factors contributing to the formation of UHI phenomenon that includes increasing rate of urbanization and population density, uncontrollable factors and controllable factors. In a fundamental study, a prolonged exposure to heat impact will significantly contribute to human discomfort and health problems resulting in heat-related illness. The cases of heat related deaths, such as heat strokes, are due to the result of climate changes and further the problem of heat waves will increase year by year. Since the consequences of UHI are considered to be more significant, the severity of the problem should be critically examined and carefully reported. Many research efforts have been implemented for making conceptual design and also a wide range of literature is available for continuing the mitigation strategies. Therefore, this study is emphasized on the critical investigation of the features, factors and impacts of UHI towards evaluating human safety and thermal comfort. Future research direction should also be encompassed on the design and planning parameters as well as assessment of climate change risks and vulnerability for reducing the effects of urban heat island onto human health and safety.
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author Lee, Yee Yong
Md Din, Mohd Fadhil
Ponraj, Mohanadoss
Noor, Zainura Zainon
Kenzo, Iwao
Chelliapan, Shreeshivadasan
author_facet Lee, Yee Yong
Md Din, Mohd Fadhil
Ponraj, Mohanadoss
Noor, Zainura Zainon
Kenzo, Iwao
Chelliapan, Shreeshivadasan
author_sort Lee, Yee Yong
title Overview of urban heat island (UHI) phenomenon towards human thermal comfort
title_short Overview of urban heat island (UHI) phenomenon towards human thermal comfort
title_full Overview of urban heat island (UHI) phenomenon towards human thermal comfort
title_fullStr Overview of urban heat island (UHI) phenomenon towards human thermal comfort
title_full_unstemmed Overview of urban heat island (UHI) phenomenon towards human thermal comfort
title_sort overview of urban heat island (uhi) phenomenon towards human thermal comfort
publisher “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iasi, Romania
publishDate 2017
url http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/4826/1/AJ%202017%20%28666%29.pdf
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