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influence all the components in the urban environment and to raise new and complex challenges for the quality of life, health and human biodiversity inside urban
areas. Poor urban design can worsen the impacts of climate change.
The attention of the European Union to the problems related to UHI is proved by
the funding of the transnational cooperation project within the Central Europe
Programme “Development and application of mitigation and adaptation strategies
and measures for counteracting the global Urban Heat Islands phenomenon”
(3CE292P3). This project is coordinated by the Regional Agency for Environmental
Protection in Emilia-Romagna, Italy, and involves 17 partners within Central
Europe area. The partnership is basically twofold, since it is characterized by the
presence of technical institutions, as well as local stakeholders, both coming from
each of the regions involved. Partners are listed in the following:
– Regional Agency for Environmental Protection (Arpa), Emilia-Romagna, Italy
– Emilia-Romagna Region, General Directorate Territorial and Negotiate Planning,
Agreements, Italy
– Veneto Region, Spatial Planning, Italy
– CORILA, Italy
– Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
– Municipality of Stuttgart, Germany
– Meteorological Institute, University of Freiburg, Germany
– Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Polish Academy of Science,
Poland
– NOFER Institute of Occupational Health, Poland
– Department of Building Physics and Building Ecology, Vienna University of
Technology, Austria
– Environmental Protection Department, Municipal Department 22 (MA 22),
Vienna, Austria
– Hungarian Meteorological Service, Hungary
– Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic
– City Development Authority of Prague, Czech Republic
– Czech Hydrometeorological Institute, Czech Republic
– Scientific Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts,
Slovenia
– Department of Environmental Protection, Municipality of Ljubljana, Slovenia
The main objective of UHI project is to establish a trans-national attention for the
prevention, adaptation and mitigation of the natural and anthropogenic risk arising
from the urban heat island phenomenon. UHI project is organized through six Work
Packages, namely:
1. Project management and coordination
2. Communication, knowledge management and dissemination
3. Framework analysis
4. Transnational network and UHI assessment’s tools
5. Mitigation and adaptation strategies
Introduction
influence all the components in the urban environment and to raise new and complex challenges for the quality of life, health and human biodiversity inside urban
areas. Poor urban design can worsen the impacts of climate change.
The attention of the European Union to the problems related to UHI is proved by
the funding of the transnational cooperation project within the Central Europe
Programme “Development and application of mitigation and adaptation strategies
and measures for counteracting the global Urban Heat Islands phenomenon”
(3CE292P3). This project is coordinated by the Regional Agency for Environmental
Protection in Emilia-Romagna, Italy, and involves 17 partners within Central
Europe area. The partnership is basically twofold, since it is characterized by the
presence of technical institutions, as well as local stakeholders, both coming from
each of the regions involved. Partners are listed in the following:
– Regional Agency for Environmental Protection (Arpa), Emilia-Romagna, Italy
– Emilia-Romagna Region, General Directorate Territorial and Negotiate Planning,
Agreements, Italy
– Veneto Region, Spatial Planning, Italy
– CORILA, Italy
– Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
– Municipality of Stuttgart, Germany
– Meteorological Institute, University of Freiburg, Germany
– Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Polish Academy of Science,
Poland
– NOFER Institute of Occupational Health, Poland
– Department of Building Physics and Building Ecology, Vienna University of
Technology, Austria
– Environmental Protection Department, Municipal Department 22 (MA 22),
Vienna, Austria
– Hungarian Meteorological Service, Hungary
– Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic
– City Development Authority of Prague, Czech Republic
– Czech Hydrometeorological Institute, Czech Republic
– Scientific Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts,
Slovenia
– Department of Environmental Protection, Municipality of Ljubljana, Slovenia
The main objective of UHI project is to establish a trans-national attention for the
prevention, adaptation and mitigation of the natural and anthropogenic risk arising
from the urban heat island phenomenon. UHI project is organized through six Work
Packages, namely:
1. Project management and coordination
2. Communication, knowledge management and dissemination
3. Framework analysis
4. Transnational network and UHI assessment’s tools
5. Mitigation and adaptation strategies
Introduction