Uploaded on 2017-03-04 by Amedeo Ardolino

2. Which are the main UHI effects that you can identify in your area? Antwerpen, Belgium. About the UHI of the city I’m living in I can provide a nice study, linked here: http://www.mdpi.com/2225-1154/3/2/391/htm According to this study the forecasting models the temperature for the period 2081 -2100 will rise up to 24° for the urban area and to 20° for the rural areas. The temperature indicator for Antwerp for the period 1986 – 2005 instead give a temperature of 19.5° for urban area and 15.5° for rural areas. So the UHI will effect the temperature for urban area with a +3.5° and a +4.5°, this means not only the average rise up of temperature but also a shortening of the difference between urban and rural zones with a overall loss of comfortability for the citizen of the territory. 3. Which are the measures you would propose? As we can see from the study linked, but actually in general from the thermopicture of the cities, the green areas help a lot to reduce the rise up temperature due to the effect of bigleaf trees presence. It doesn’t mean that we should cover the urban matrix with parks but I would propose to redesign the current infrastructures as green axes with trees positioning well thought in strategic points. 4. Is UHI effect concerning policy making in your area? According to the previous answer I would take as example an iniziative of the city to cover the street ring around the city and transform it from a tongue of asphalt to a green park. This will definitelly help a less strong difference between the urban area and the rural surrounding mitigating the most warm core of the city itself. Here the link for the project called Ringland http://ringland.be/