Urban vegetation for reducing heat related mortality.

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Abstract
The potential benefit of urban vegetation in reducing heat related mortality in the city of Melbourne, Australia is investigated using a two-scale modelling approach. A meso-scale urban climate model was used to quantify the effects of ten urban vegetation schemes on the current climate in 2009 and future climates in 2030 and 2050. The indoor thermal performance of five residential buildings was then simulated using a building simulation tool with the local meso-climates associated with various urban vegetation schemes. Simulation results suggest that average seasonal summer temperatures can be reduced in the range of around 0.5 and 2 °C if the city were replaced by vegetated suburbs and parklands, respectively. With the limited buildings and local meso-climates investigated in this study, around 5-28% and 37-99% reduction in heat related mortality rate have been estimated by doubling the city's vegetation coverage and transforming the city into parklands respectively.
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Authors Chen, Dong;Wang, Xiaoming;Thatcher, Marcus;Barnett, Guy;Kachenko, Anthony;Prince, Robert;
Journal Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)
Year 2014
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10.1016/j.envpol.2014.05.002
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climate change urban vegetation mortality rate heat waves urban heat island

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