Green and cool (reflective) roofs are effective tools for cooling overheated cities. Research in Chicago shows that their impacts depend on local conditions, so planners should site them carefully.
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Hot spots occur at the scale of where people live – the building, the street, the block – which means urban design and building materials have profound implications for our health and well-being.
Six years after Black Saturday, it’s worth remembering that heatwaves kill more people than bushfires do, so shade can be a life-saver. But tree cover and shade are not evenly distributed in cities.
Cities are aiming to increase their tree cover. But there will need to be more than trees to encourage wildlife to return.
Cities may only occupy about 2% of the world’s habitable land, but they are big drivers of global climate change. Cities are usually hotter than rural areas, and get referred to in the jargon as “urban…
Heatwaves — Australia’s biggest natural killers — are getting more frequent and hotter thanks to climate change. One day cities such as Melbourne may see unprecedented heat, perhaps 48C or higher. But…
Air conditioners across the country are running on full this week as Australia battles a heatwave – but are we missing an obvious, leafy solution? Trees, which provide shade and act as natural air conditioners…
Can a whiter roof make your home cooler? What about your whole city? The existing literature and theory suggests that increasing the albedo - or reflectiveness - of a building will reflect incoming sun…
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Senior Research Associate, School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of Geography, Indiana University
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Research Professor ISGlobal Barcelona and Professorial Fellow, ACU Melbourne, Australian Catholic University
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Illinois Research Climatologist, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Research Associate, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge
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Tutor in MSD at the University of Melbourne, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Urban Ecosystems, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Health, Safety and Environment, Curtin University
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John Rennie Short es Amigo de The Conversation.
Professor Emeritus of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Graduate Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Architecture, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Associate professor, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow, School of Geography, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer, School of Geography and Sustainable Communities, University of Wollongong
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Associate Professor of Economics, Australia Director - Centre for International Trade and Business in Asia (CITBA), James Cook University
