Improving Urban Cooling in the Semi-arid Phoenix Metropolis: Land System Science, Landscape Ecology and Urban Climatology Approaches

abstract: The global increase in urbanization has raised questions about urban sustainability to which multiple research communities have entered. Those communities addressing interest in the urban heat island (UHI) effect and extreme temperatures include land system science, urban/landscape ecology...

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Other Authors: Zhang, Yujia (Author)
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2018
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.50440