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Urban Heat Adaptation: Potential, Feasibility, Equity
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Urban Heat Adaptation: Potential, Feasibility, Equity

A special issue of Climate (ISSN 2225-1154). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Urban Futures in a Changing Climate".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2026 | Viewed by 1118

Special Issue Editors

Assoc. Prof. Maurizio Tiepolo

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Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning, Politecnico di Torino, Viale Pier Andrea Mattioli 39, 10125 Turin, Italy
Interests: climate change; urban and regional planning; risk management; sustainable local development
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Associate Prof. Dr. Riccardo Pollo

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Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning (DIST), Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy
Interests: healthy city; sustainable development; urban planning; climate change

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The rise in urban temperatures is an established and much-studied impact of climate change. However, the potential, feasibility, and equity of measures to cool temperatures are still poorly investigated. To overcome this research gap, innovative methodologies are required, and inclusive processes are needed to increase the contribution of local communities and policymakers and enhance scientific knowledge.
This Special Issue aims to provide state-of-the-art information on these topics and show that temperatures can be reduced in specific case studies. Due to their complexity, these topics intersect areas of citizen science, climatology, geomatics, materials technology, sociology, urban design, urban forestry, and urban planning. Topics for consideration include, but are not limited to, the following:

  1. The characterisation of warm air spells: their duration, frequency, and vulnerability;
  2. Citizen science approaches to climate change awareness, distributed temperature measurement, and adaptation;
  3. Urban morphology and land surface temperatures, including a comparison of case studies;
  4. The feasibility, potential impact, and environmental equity of greening;
  5. Thermal comfort at the neighbourhood scale: tools, modelling, and strategies for adaptation;
  6. The effects of heat waves on the health of fragile people, such as the disabled and chronically ill, and their specific thermal comfort needs.

This Special Issue aims to strengthen collaboration between local communities, researchers, and policymakers according to the priorities of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030.

Assoc. Prof. Maurizio Tiepolo
Associate Prof. Dr. Riccardo Pollo
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • urban
  • climate change
  • heat island
  • heat waves
  • thermal comfort
  • public health

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A Framework to Integrate Microclimate Conditions in Building Energy Use Models at a Whole-City Scale
by Sedi Lawrence, Ulrike Passe and Jan Thompson
Climate 2026, 14(2), 42; https://doi.org/10.3390/cli14020042 - 2 Feb 2026
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Urbanization and climate change have intensified the need for advanced methods to simulate building energy performance within realistic urban environmental contexts. This study presents a microclimate-informed framework for developing representative building energy prototypes that enable the estimation of energy use for buildings sharing [...] Read more.
Urbanization and climate change have intensified the need for advanced methods to simulate building energy performance within realistic urban environmental contexts. This study presents a microclimate-informed framework for developing representative building energy prototypes that enable the estimation of energy use for buildings sharing similar microclimatic conditions and building-level characteristics. The framework is demonstrated using Des Moines, Iowa, as a case study. The framework combines high-resolution microclimate modeling with geospatial analysis to quantify the influence of urban form and vegetation on building energy use. Localized weather files were generated using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model to capture spatial variations in microclimate across the city. Detailed three-dimensional models of buildings and trees were developed from Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) point cloud data and integrated with building attributes, including construction materials and heating and cooling systems, to generate representative building typologies use them to build a similarity-based lookup table. Urban energy simulations were conducted using the Urban Modeling Interface (UMI). To demonstrate the effectiveness of the framework, simulations were conducted for two building prototypes according to the framework. Results show that monthly energy use intensity (EUI) of a representative cluster compared to randomly selected buildings differs by 10% to 19%, with both positive and negative deviations observed depending on building template and month. Thus, the proposed framework shows great promise to capture comparable energy performance trends across buildings with similar construction characteristics and urban context and minimize computational demands for doing so. While evapotranspiration effects are not explicitly modeled in the current framework, they are recognized as an important microclimatic process and will be incorporated in future work. This study demonstrates that the proposed framework provides a scalable and computationally efficient approach for urban-scale energy analysis and can support data driven decision making for climate-responsive urban planning. Full article
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