Distributional outcomes of urban heat island reduction pathways under climate extremes.

ABSTRACT: Global warming and the rise in extreme heat days elevate the risk of heat-related mortalities, particularly in cities due to the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect and vulnerabilities tied to housing, exposure, and health conditions. City planners can mitigate these effects through urban adaptive actions. UHI mitigation, however, needs to balance several goals: strategies that maximize temperature reduction or minimize their impacts may not be best for cost effectiveness, carbon emissions, environmental amenities, health impacts, or distributional outcomes. Here, we implement a multi-objective robust decision-making tool for heat mitigation-the City-Heat Equity Adaptation Tool (City-HEAT)-to identify potential heat mitigation pathways at neighborhood scales. We find that more expensive pathway

SUBMITTER: Eyni A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11926168 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature