Mitigation and Adaptation of Urban Overheating: The Impact of Warmer Cities on Climate, Energy, Health, Environmental Quality, Economy, and Quality of Life

About Steve Brezenoff

Dr. Nasrin Aghamohammadi is an Associate Professor at Curtin University Australia and environmental engineering in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine Faculty of Medicine University of Malaya Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. Her core expertise is in sustainability net zero precincts climate change adaptation urban heat island phenomenon and health impact. Since 1995 she has targeted contamination measurement and possible control. She has an extensive background in pure and applied research as well as chemical engineering. She has acquired applied and taken pride in a very wide range of experiences and activities from hands-on projects such as projects involving air water wastewater solid waste and related health issues. She led as the principal investigator for various local and international research focusing on urban health and climate change addressing sustainable development goals and sustainable future cities. Her main research is on net zero precincts and urban footprint mitigations. Prof. Mattheos Santamouris is the Anita Lawrence Professor of high-performance architecture at the University of New South Wales in Australia. He is a former professor at the University of Athens Greece; visiting professor at the Cyprus Institute London Metropolitan University Tokyo Polytechnic University Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Brunel University London and the National University of Singapore; and a former president of the National Center of Renewable and Energy Savings of Greece. Through high-performance architecture he creates innovative methods techniques and technologies that improve indoor and outdoor environments while reducing energy consumption. Indoor and outdoor comforts are vital human needs that contribute significantly to a good quality of life. He has been involved in designing and implementing mitigation technologies in more than 60 cities and energy conservation and renewable technologies in hundreds of buildings and settlements of zero energy consumption.