Heat Islands
[rating 4.5] Lisa Gartland. 2010. Heat Islands: Understanding and Mitigating Heat in Urban Areas. Earthscan. ISBN 978 1 84971 298 9. Heat islands have been recognised for many years. One of the first instances would be the First Report of the Royal Commission on Pollution, which reported the impact of urban climate on London (although there have been reports linking it back as far as the early 1800s). Of late, they have gathered some controversy, in a few cases the […]
