Towards cool cities and communities: Preparing for an increasingly hot future by the development of heat-resilient infrastructure and urban heat management plan

• DOI: 10.1016/j.eti.2024.103568
• Publication Date: 2024-02-09T06:32:30Z
• Authors: Yi Cui; Mingqiang Yin; Xiang Cheng; Junqing Tang; Bao-Jie He
• Keywords: Urban Heat Island; Urban infrastructure

Planning for extreme heat challenges is an urgent task urban planners, designers, and managers because a new normal climate-related challenge many cities. However, how to integrate existing scientific outcomes achieve the transformation from research practice critical question. This study aims frame heat-resilient infrastructure system management plan (UHMP) better promote solution implementation. analyses heat-related challenges, with China as typical nation highly urbanized urbanizing cities, demonstrate urgency of preparing era. then elucidates fundamentals methods UHMP development, structure prevention, preparation, mitigation, adaptation, co-benefits approaches. Heat–resilient was framed ensure that society withstands, responds to, recovers heat–related impacts through actions planning, design, construction, operation, considering structural measures, non–structural approach. Furthermore, framework developed by determining key mission, components, associated agencies. Overall, this provides theoretical methodological frameworks comprehensively understand solutions increase their implementation capacity.