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Three decades of urban heat islands and mitigation technologies research
Energy and Buildings · 2016 · Vol. 133 · pp. 834–842
Hashem Akbari✉(Concordia University)Dionysia Kolokotsa(Technical University of Crete)
Urban Heat Island MitigationBuilding Energy and Comfort OptimizationUrban Green Space and HealthUrban heat islandEnvironmental scienceUrban climateVegetation (pathology)Urban climatologyClimate changeMeteorologyUrban planningEnvironmental planningGeography
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
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