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| Author | : Sarah Mayberry |
| Publisher | : Harlequin |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 2008-03-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1426814100 |
It's been eight years since Tory Sanderson has seen Ben Cooper—eight years since she found out he seduced her to win a bet withsome classmates at the prestigious Culinary Institute of America,and eight years since she got her revenge.… After fulfilling her dream of publishing a cookbook of islandrecipes, Tory is thrilled when she's invited on a Caribbean cruiseas a guest lecturer. But excitement turns to anxiety when she findsout that Ben, who is now a celebrated restaurateur, will join her asthe guest chef. Ben accepted the guest chef gig in order to enjoy a week of Torysweating it out in the kitchen. But once the heat starts to climb,getting even turns out to be the last thing on his mind. In fact,picturing a future with Tory in his kitchen might add just the rightamount of spice to his life….
| Author | : Susan Kearney |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 324 |
| Release | : 2007-02-06 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780765356666 |
Shara Weston used to be a movie star. But after the death of her husband, she overdosed on more than just the limelight--and now she's a recluse. Cade Archer fell out of the sky, and Shara believes his story -- he's here to save both their worlds. For Cade, failure isn't an option. If he doesn't open a portal to Earth, his people will never have the resources they need to be free. But a powerful enemy has tracked him from his world: An enemy whose only purpose is to destroy him. Shara finds Cade's mission is as compelling as his dominating sensuality--but as she falls under his spell, she realizes that if he succeeds in his mission, he may very well destroy his world and Earth.
| Author | : Lisa Mummery Gartland |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 2012-05-16 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 1136564209 |
Heat islands are urban and suburban areas that are significantly warmer than their surroundings. Traditional, highly absorptive construction materials and a lack of effective landscaping are their main causes. Heat island problems, in terms of increased energy consumption, reduced air quality and effects on human health and mortality, are becoming more pressing as cities continue to grow and sprawl. This comprehensive book brings together the latest information about heat islands and their mitigation. The book describes how heat islands are formed, what problems they cause, which technologies mitigate heat island effects and what policies and actions can be taken to cool communities. Internationally renowned expert Lisa Gartland offers a comprehensive source of information for turning heat islands into cool communities. The author includes sections on cool roofing and cool paving, explains their benefits in detail and provides practical guidelines for their selection and installation. The book also reviews how and why to incorporate trees and vegetation around buildings, in parking lots and on green roofs.
| Author | : Iain D. Stewart |
| Publisher | : Elsevier |
| Total Pages | : 184 |
| Release | : 2021-05-25 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0128156902 |
The Urban Heat Island (UHI) is an area of growing interest for many people studying the urban environment and local/global climate change. The UHI has been scientifically studied for 200 years and, although it is an apparently simple phenomenon, there is considerable confusion around the different types of UHI and their assessment. The Urban Heat Island—A Guidebook provides simple instructions for measuring and analysing the phenomenon, as well as greater context for defining the UHI and the impacts it can have. Readers will be empowered to work within a set of guidelines that enable direct comparison of UHI effects across diverse settings, while informing a wide range of climate mitigation and adaptation programs to modify human behaviour and the built form. This opens the door to true global assessments of local climate change in cities. Urban planning and design strategies can then be evaluated for their effectiveness at mitigating these changes. - Covers both on-surface and near-surface, or canopy, measurements and impacts of Urban Heat Islands (UHI) - Provides a set of best practices and guidelines for UHI observation and analysis - Includes both conceptual overviews and practical instructions for a wide range of uses
| Author | : Hideki Takebayashi |
| Publisher | : Academic Press |
| Total Pages | : 194 |
| Release | : 2020-03-20 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0128176253 |
Adaptation Measures for Urban Heat Islands helps the reader understand the relative performance of these adaptation measures, methods and analysis relating to their creation and maintenance, evaluation methods, and the role of policy and governance in implementing them. A suite of case studies is included on these urban or metropolitan areas that are significantly warmer than their surrounding rural areas due to human activities. In recent years, a suite of adaptation measures have been developed to mitigate the urban heat island phenomena. - Provides a range of concrete implementation methods - Assesses relative performance of adaptation measures and countermeasure technologies - Establishes methods for human thermal environmental interventions - Reviews adaptation cities selected for excellent energy performance and thermal comfort indicators
| Author | : Jonathan Barnett |
| Publisher | : Island Press |
| Total Pages | : 298 |
| Release | : 2022-07-14 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 1642832006 |
Natural disasters from heat waves to coastal and river flooding will inevitably become worse because of greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere. Managing them is possible, but planners, designers, and policymakers need to advance adaptation and preventative measures now. Managing the Climate Crisis: Designing and Building for Floods, Heat, Drought and Wildfire by design and planning experts Jonathan Barnett and Matthijs Bouw is a practical guide to addressing this urgent national security problem. Barnett and Bouw draw from the latest scientific findings and include many recent, real-world examples to illustrate how to manage seven climate-related threats: flooding along coastlines, river flooding, flash floods from extreme rain events, drought, wildfire, long periods of high heat, and food shortages.
| Author | : Napoleon Enteria |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 307 |
| Release | : 2020-12-14 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9813340509 |
This book discusses the concepts and technologies associated with the mitigation of urban heat islands (UHIs) that are applicable in hot and humid regions. It presents several city case studies on how UHIs can be reduced in various areas to provide readers, researchers, and policymakers with insights into the concepts and technologies that should be considered when planning and constructing urban centres and buildings. The rapid development of urban areas in hot and humid regions has led to an increase in urban temperatures, a decrease in ventilation in buildings, and a transformation of the once green outdoor environment into areas full of solar-energy-absorbing concrete and asphalt. This situation has increased the discomfort of people living in these areas regardless of whether they occupy concrete structures. This is because indoor and outdoor air quality have both suffered from urbanisation. The development of urban areas has also increased energy consumption so that the occupants of buildings can enjoy indoor thermal comfort and air quality that they need via air conditioning systems. This book offers solutions to the recent increase in the number of heat islands in hot and humid regions.
| Author | : Randy Wayne White |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 324 |
| Release | : 1993-02-15 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780312929770 |
The eagerly-awaited follow-up to Sanibel Flats from the author the Tampa Tribune-Times calls "the rightful heir to John D. MacDonald". When Doc Ford's friend--the simplest and sweetest resident of Sanibel Island--is framed for murder, Doc heads to Florida's dark side to save him and the island from a rising tide of land-grab schemes, blood money, and violence. Martin's.
| Author | : Hui Li |
| Publisher | : Butterworth-Heinemann |
| Total Pages | : 389 |
| Release | : 2015-08-19 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 0128034963 |
About 90 percent of this excessive heat is due to buildings and pavements that absorb and store solar heat (According to the Green Buildings Council). The only reference that focuses specifically on pavements, Pavement Materials for Heat Island Mitigation: Design and Management Strategies explores different advanced paving materials, their properties, and their associated advantages and disadvantages. Relevant properties of pavement materials (e.g. albedo, permeability, thermal conductivity, heat capacity and evaporation rate) are measured in many cases using newly developed methods. - Includes experimental methods for testing different types of pavements materials - Identifies different cool pavement strategies with their advantages and associated disadvantages - Design and construct local microclimate models to evaluate and validate different cool pavement materials in different climate regions
| Author | : T. R. Oke |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 549 |
| Release | : 2017-09-14 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1108179363 |
Urban Climates is the first full synthesis of modern scientific and applied research on urban climates. The book begins with an outline of what constitutes an urban ecosystem. It develops a comprehensive terminology for the subject using scale and surface classification as key constructs. It explains the physical principles governing the creation of distinct urban climates, such as airflow around buildings, the heat island, precipitation modification and air pollution, and it then illustrates how this knowledge can be applied to moderate the undesirable consequences of urban development and help create more sustainable and resilient cities. With urban climate science now a fully-fledged field, this timely book fulfills the need to bring together the disparate parts of climate research on cities into a coherent framework. It is an ideal resource for students and researchers in fields such as climatology, urban hydrology, air quality, environmental engineering and urban design.
