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developed (Budapest, Ljubljana, Modena, Padua, Prague, Stuttgart, Warsaw and
Wien). In fact, UHI project aims at adopting urban and land planning models in
order to prevent urban heat island effect and to reduce its impact. Pilot areas have
been identified by project partners inside each of the afore-mentioned metropolitan
areas in Central Europe.
Trans-national Focus Groups (TFGs) are one of UHI project’s operative tools to
ensure maximum synergy between various partners and local stakeholders involved
in the pilot actions. The rationale of TFGs is to encourage the exchange of ideas and
best practices in a trans-national and multi-disciplinary context. Experts taking part
to TFGs are non necessary limited to the partnership of UHI project, rather it has
been considered an enlargement of the expertise during the course of the UHI
project.
Trans-national focus groups (TFGs) are trans-national thematic meetings where
experts with a sound experience in UHI related topics, such as meteorological, climatic and biometeorological aspects, architectural techniques and urban planning
debate on the issues related to UHI phenomenon. TFGs took place in conjunction
with the formal project meetings established during the course of UHI project.
TFGs are conceived to manage the knowledge shared among partners and stakeholders, the debate developed in the TFG framework faced general and scientific
issues that could support the activities carried out within the whole UHI project.
The items chosen as drivers of the debate are the following:
– Urban planning: urban sustainability, regeneration and sprawl limitation
policies
– Environmentally driven consent: policy and communication (pro-active strategies aiming at an environmentally significant UHI accounting behaviour – attitude and context – addressing to citizens, planners, policy makers, researchers,
etc.);
– Urban health: bioclimatic discomfort, human health
– Urban meteorology: micro- and macro-scale analysis of the phenomenon
TFGs can thus be considered as parallel insight that contribute to define the technical scenarios linked with UHI phenomenon. The methodological approach is
based on the definition of general issue (for example, urban planning) developed in
different sub-topics acting as a pathway of the debate (for example, regeneration
and sprawl limitation policies).
The discussion within TFGs dealt with generally developed problems and implemented scientific activities carried out in parallel in the context of the whole project:
working groups may in fact be considered as a cross-cutting approach that helps to
define technical scenarios associated with the phenomenon of urban heat islands.
A general objective of UHI project aimed at drawing a trans-national attention,
as well as policies and practical actions, in order to prevent risks deriving from UHI,
both from natural and anthropogenic origin. In particular, UHI project includes the
review of a wide range of possible mitigation and adaptation actions for lowering
the negative UHI effects within cities. Most of the actions that are commonly
Introduction
developed (Budapest, Ljubljana, Modena, Padua, Prague, Stuttgart, Warsaw and
Wien). In fact, UHI project aims at adopting urban and land planning models in
order to prevent urban heat island effect and to reduce its impact. Pilot areas have
been identified by project partners inside each of the afore-mentioned metropolitan
areas in Central Europe.
Trans-national Focus Groups (TFGs) are one of UHI project’s operative tools to
ensure maximum synergy between various partners and local stakeholders involved
in the pilot actions. The rationale of TFGs is to encourage the exchange of ideas and
best practices in a trans-national and multi-disciplinary context. Experts taking part
to TFGs are non necessary limited to the partnership of UHI project, rather it has
been considered an enlargement of the expertise during the course of the UHI
project.
Trans-national focus groups (TFGs) are trans-national thematic meetings where
experts with a sound experience in UHI related topics, such as meteorological, climatic and biometeorological aspects, architectural techniques and urban planning
debate on the issues related to UHI phenomenon. TFGs took place in conjunction
with the formal project meetings established during the course of UHI project.
TFGs are conceived to manage the knowledge shared among partners and stakeholders, the debate developed in the TFG framework faced general and scientific
issues that could support the activities carried out within the whole UHI project.
The items chosen as drivers of the debate are the following:
– Urban planning: urban sustainability, regeneration and sprawl limitation
policies
– Environmentally driven consent: policy and communication (pro-active strategies aiming at an environmentally significant UHI accounting behaviour – attitude and context – addressing to citizens, planners, policy makers, researchers,
etc.);
– Urban health: bioclimatic discomfort, human health
– Urban meteorology: micro- and macro-scale analysis of the phenomenon
TFGs can thus be considered as parallel insight that contribute to define the technical scenarios linked with UHI phenomenon. The methodological approach is
based on the definition of general issue (for example, urban planning) developed in
different sub-topics acting as a pathway of the debate (for example, regeneration
and sprawl limitation policies).
The discussion within TFGs dealt with generally developed problems and implemented scientific activities carried out in parallel in the context of the whole project:
working groups may in fact be considered as a cross-cutting approach that helps to
define technical scenarios associated with the phenomenon of urban heat islands.
A general objective of UHI project aimed at drawing a trans-national attention,
as well as policies and practical actions, in order to prevent risks deriving from UHI,
both from natural and anthropogenic origin. In particular, UHI project includes the
review of a wide range of possible mitigation and adaptation actions for lowering
the negative UHI effects within cities. Most of the actions that are commonly
Introduction