Journal article
Planning for cooler cities: A framework to prioritise green infrastructure to mitigate high temperatures in urban landscapes
BA Norton, AM Coutts, SJ Livesley, RJ Harris, AM Hunter, NSG Williams
Landscape and Urban Planning | Published : 2015
Abstract
Warming associated with urban development will be exacerbated in future years by temperature increases due to climate change. The strategic implementation of urban green infrastructure (UGI) e.g. street trees, parks, green roofs and facades can help achieve temperature reductions in urban areas while delivering diverse additional benefits such as pollution reduction and biodiversity habitat. Although the greatest thermal benefits of UGI are achieved in climates with hot, dry summers, there is comparatively little information available for land managers to determine an appropriate strategy for UGI implementation under these climatic conditions. We present a framework for prioritisation and se..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This paper arose from a project funded by the Victorian Centre for Climate Change Adaptation Research (VCCCAR). Sincere thanks to the City of Port Phillip for making available the thermal imagery data and supporting GIS layers. The manuscript has benefited from input during the project from Brod Street, all workshop participants, and Karyn Bosomworth and Alexei Trundle from RMIT University as well as from two anonymous reviewers. Andrew M. Coutts is funded by the Cooperative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities. Monash University provides research into the CRC for Water Sensitive Cities through the Monash Water for Liveability Centre.