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can create opportunities to reduce the coupled impacts associated with rapid urbanization and changing urban climates as exemplified by the UHI effect.
That is policy makers at all levels should be able to craft policies, incentives and
regulations matching economic, social and environmental imperatives. All these
issues are the directions towards which UHI project moved. Consistently, the partnership is a balanced (and quite strong) mix of policy makers on one side (namely
“institutional partners”), and environmental monitoring agencies and university on
the other side (namely “scientific partners”). All of them act within the orbit of the
most relevant metropolitan areas in Central Europe.
Introduction