Half-a-dozen strategies are effective for cooling urban areas. Used in combination, these strategies can drop the temperature even more.
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Inner Melbourne alone has lost 2,000 street trees to major developments within a decade. Losing tree cover makes it even more difficult for our cities to cope with an increasingly tough climate.
Greening cities have a huge impact. The trees go beyond just lowering temperatures. They help decrease the demand for indoor cooling like air-conditioners saving money.
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Honorary Academic Fellow, Australia India Institute, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Architecture, Federal University of Technology, Akure
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Postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Future Cities, Chinese University of Hong Kong
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Research Officer, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Research Fellow, School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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National Technical Executive in Ecology at WSP Australia Pty Ltd. Adjunct Associate Professor, School of BioSciences, The University of Melbourne
