Urban Climate Mitigation Techniques

The urban climate is continuously deteriorating. Urban heat lowers the quality of urban life, increases energy needs, and affects the urban socio-economy.Urban Climate Mitigation Techniques presents steps that can be taken to mitigate this situation through a series of innovative technologies and examples of best practices for the improvement of the urban climate.

Including tools for evaluation and a comparative analysis, this book addresses anthropogenic heat, green areas, cool materials and pavements, outdoor shading structures, evaporative cooling and earth cooling. Case studies demonstrate the success and applicability of these measures in various cities throughout the world.

Useful for urban designers, architects and planners, Urban Climate Mitigation Techniques is a step by step tour of the innovative technologies improving our urban climate, providing a holistic approach supported by well-established quantitative examples.

Denia Kolokotsa is Assistant Professor in the Technical University of Crete. Lab Director of Energy Management in the Built Environment Research Lab (www.ember.tuc.gr)

Board Director of European Cool Roofs Council (http://coolroofcouncil.eu/). Editor in Chief OF Advances in Building Energy Research, Taylor and Francis.Member of Editorial Board of Energy and Buildings and Renewable Energy Journals, Elsevier.

Participation in more than 30 national and EU projects with main subject the energy management and operational efficiency of buildings. She has coordinated two EU projects (EEBD targeting to vocational training structures concerning EPBD in EU level) and national projects and she is member of the leading team for the FP7 project PEBBLE. She has organized two sessions in previous REHVA conferences concerning EPBD vocational training issues. She has also participated in numerous research projects (FP5, FP7, Horizon etc) and she is the author of more than 70 papers in scientific journals and conferences.

Her research interest include energy management and energy efficiency in the built and urban environment, neural networks and fuzzy logic technology, advanced optimization theory and applications, decision support systems in energy modelling and automation.

Matheos Santamouris is Professor of Energy Physics at the University of Athens and visiting professor at the Cyprus Institute, Metropolitan University of London, Tokyo Polytechnic University, Bolzano University, Brunnel University and National University of Singapore.

Director of the Laboratory of Building Energy Research, at the University of Athens.

Editor in Chief of the Energy and Buildings, Past Editor in Chief of the Journal of Advances Building Energy Research, Associate Editor of the Solar Energy Journal and actual or past Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Solar Energy, Journal of Buildings and Environment, Journal of Sustainable Energy, Journal of Low Carbon Technologies, Journal of Open Construction and Building Technology, Sustainable Cities and Society and of the Journal of Ventilation

Editor of the Series of Book on Buildings, Energy and Solar Technologies published by Earthscan Science Publishers in London. Editor and author of 12 international books on topics related to heat island, solar energy and energy conservation in buildings published by Earthscan in London. Guest editor of twelve special issues of various scientific journals. Coordinator of many international research programs and author of almost 210 scientific papers published in peer review international scientific journals.

Reviewer of research projects in 14 countries including USA, UK, France, Germany, Canada, Sweden, etc.