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The aim of the chapter Heat Islands is to provide the reader basic information about this ongoing problematic. Description, causes, terminology, history. The chapter is a continuation of a previous one – Climate Change Is Not a Threat of Future, It Is Already Happening Now, but in a smaller scale. The chapter presents reasons and the causes of creating heat islands in specific areas. In the end, possibilities how to beat heat island are listed. The chapter explains theoretically, how roofing materials, paving materials and trees and vegetation may cause the change. Again, with the focus on a green roofs.
More than 75% of the world’s residents live in urban areas and urban trees are the only trees most people see from day to day.
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Poórová, Z., Vranayová, Z. (2020). Heat Islands. In: Green Roofs and Water Retention in Košice, Slovakia . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24039-4_3
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