Development and application of mitigation and adaptation strategies and measures for counteracting the global Urban Heat Islands phenomenon

Programme 2007 - 2013 Central Europe

Date of latest update: 2021-04-06

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Description (EN):

As population of our cities grow, so does land area and this result in increase of an average temperature. The buildings and roads absorb temperature produced during the day, like giant heaters, and store it. The energy is then released during the night time. This often means a big difference in the temperature between city and its surrounding areas. This phenomenon is called the Urban Heat Island (UHI) and is known and studied since eighties. It is caused by various factors like physical characteristics of the surfaces, where thermal and radioactive proprieties of the materials of urban surfaces, such as concrete and asphalt, absorb rather than reflect solar radiations, or it can be caused by lack of natural evaporative surfaces (vegetation), or by increase of the vertical surface that both provide an increased surface absorbing and reflecting solar radiation as well as block wind (canyon effect) etc. The intensity of UHI phenomenon rises proportionally to the dimension and population of the urban area. Consequently, it is doomed to become more severe in the coming years due to the constant growing of number of people living in urban areas. The UHI effects are directly related to (and worsened by) the climate change, with stronger and immediate effect on the health of people living in cities. The project UHI, which started from a deep analysis of this phenomenon carried out with traditional micrometeorology techniques and remote sensing techniques, is designed to both develop mitigation and risk prevention and management strategies to tackle this problem.

Achievements (EN):

UHI project aims at raising the transnational attention, as well as to trigger the elaboration of plans and practical actions, for the prevention, adaptation and mitigation of the natural and man-made risks, arising from the urban heat islands phenomenon. The UHI innovative character is to make interacting two disciplines that are traditionally strangers one to another: meteoclimatology and urban planning, towards the definition of particular strategies able to guide the choices of development and urban renewal. In this regard the created transnational network (Transnational Scientific Board) dealt and agreed shared methodological approaches. The UHI project has entered in its crucial implementation phase. Many deliverables have been achieved and agreed among Partners, but many of them are still under discussion. Thanks to the Transnational Focus Groups work organized beside the Steering Committee meetings, the Partners had the possibility to debate and share deeply different opinions and points of view. The Transnational Focus Groups’ function is indeed to trigger the dialogue and coordinate the discussion within a thematic approach. In particular, to raise the partners’ attention on the importance of disseminating the project message and organizing their local events, during the Transnational Focus Groups in Prague, the partners have been asked to deal with the issue “Transnational versus Local perspective: experiences of the different Local Working Groups”, using a . smart methodology/tool (UHI Prezi ) activated by the LP as free co-working platform useful to facilitate the knowledge exchange and define their own strategies at local level. Main project outputs achieved during this period have been the UHI versus climate change report, that shows different approaches on how to simulate the Urban Heat Island phenomenon for Central European cities, and the Gold Standard as methodology to analyze the Urban microclimate. As regard the pilot actions, despite the problems due to political decisions to be taken internally by the public Administrations involved, but also in relation to the difficulties of some PPs in matching with the institutional administrations concerned, many progresses have been achieved and the specific work carried out by each area is free available through the UHI project web site eu-uhi.eu/pilot-areas within its specific section devoted to the pilot actions

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Urban development Regional planning and development Climate change and biodiversity

Partners (18)

Lead Partner: Agenzia Regionale per la Prevenzione e l’Ambiente dell’Emilia-Romagna

Address: Via Po, 5, 40139 Bologna, Italy

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Consorzio per la Gestione del Centro di Coordinamento delle Attività inerenti il Sistema Lagunare Veneziano (CORILA)

Name: Consorzio per la Gestione del Centro di Coordinamento delle Attività inerenti il Sistema Lagunare Veneziano (CORILA)

Address: San Marco 2847, 30124 Venice, Italy

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Instytut Geografii I Przestrzennego Zagospodarowania Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Name: Instytut Geografii I Przestrzennego Zagospodarowania Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Address: Twarda 51/55, 00-818 Warszawa, Poland

Legal status: n/a

Meteorologisches Institut – Universität Freiburg

Name: Meteorologisches Institut – Universität Freiburg

Address: Fahnenbergplatz, 79098 Freiburg, Germany

Legal status: n/a

Karlsruher Institut für Technologie

Name: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie

Address: Kreuzeckbahnstr. 19, 82467 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany

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Regione del Veneto - Dipartimento Pianificazione Territoriale e Parchi

Name: Regione del Veneto - Dipartimento Pianificazione Territoriale e Parchi

Address: Palazzo Linetti, Cannaregio 99, 30121 Venice, Italy

Legal status: n/a

Regione Emilia Romagna. Direzione Generale Programmazione territoriale e negoziata, intese.

Name: Regione Emilia Romagna. Direzione Generale Programmazione territoriale e negoziata, intese.

Address: Viale Aldo Moro, 30, 40127 Bologna, Italy

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Országos Meteorológiai Szolgálat

Name: Országos Meteorológiai Szolgálat

Address: Kitaibel Pál 1, 1024 Budapest, Hungary

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City of Lodz WITHDRAWAL on the 6th of May

Name: City of Lodz WITHDRAWAL on the 6th of May

Address: ul. Piotrkowska 104, 90-926 Lodz, Poland

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Mestna občina Ljubljana

Name: Mestna občina Ljubljana

Address: Mestni trg 1, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

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Znanstvenoraziskovalni center Slovenske akademije znanosti in umetnosti

Name: Znanstvenoraziskovalni center Slovenske akademije znanosti in umetnosti

Address: Novi trg 2, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

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Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart

Name: Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart

Address: Rathaus, Marktplatz 1, 70173 Stuttgart, Germany

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Magistratsabteilung 22 UmweltschutzabteilungBereich Räumliche Entwicklung

Name: Magistratsabteilung 22 UmweltschutzabteilungBereich Räumliche Entwicklung

Address: Dresdner Straße 45, 1200 Vienna, Austria

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Abteilung für Bauphysik und Bauökologie, Technische Universität Wien - Institut für Architekturwissenschaften

Name: Abteilung für Bauphysik und Bauökologie, Technische Universität Wien - Institut für Architekturwissenschaften

Address: Karlsplatz 13, 1040 Vienna, Austria

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Český hydrometeorologický ústav

Name: Český hydrometeorologický ústav

Address: Na Sabatce 17, 143 06 Prague, Czech Republic

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Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Matematicko-fyzikalni fakulta

Name: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Matematicko-fyzikalni fakulta

Address: Ke Karlovu 3, 121 16 Prague, Czech Republic

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Utvar rozvoje hlavniho mesta Prahy

Name: Utvar rozvoje hlavniho mesta Prahy

Address: Vyšehradska 57/2077, 128 00 Prague, Czech Republic

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Instytut Medycyny Pracy im. Prof. J. Nofera

Name: Instytut Medycyny Pracy im. Prof. J. Nofera

Address: Teresy 8, 91-348 Łódź, Poland

Legal status: n/a

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Project name (EN): Development and application of mitigation and adaptation strategies and measures for counteracting the global Urban Heat Islands phenomenon

Project acronym: UHI

Project start date: 2011-05-01

Project end date: 2014-04-30

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 3 983 054.20

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 3 146 481.97

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2007 - 2013 Central Europe

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Development and application of mitigation and adaptation strategies and measures for counteracting the global Urban Heat Islands phenomenon

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