11 research outputs found
Viewpoint: The Discomfort of Interdisciplinarity- New ways of looking at familiar things
As the requirements of sustainable development become less and less questionable and as we discover that many of our issues that are usually considered separate are actually interwoven in all sorts of mutually dependent ways, we are being called upon to consider how to more effectively deal with interlocking issues. This paper introduces some of the issues and challenges around working across disciplines and attempts to draw attention to perceptions, challenges, misunderstandings, contradictions and pitfalls of interdisciplinary initiatives. Overall the paper aims to offer new insights and perspectives and to contribute towards developing more interest, curiosity and competence in this challenging topic. The focus of discussion and the research questions raised relate to the university environment
Definição de faixas de conforto e desconforto tĂ©rmico para espaços abertos em Curitiba, PR, com o Ăndice UTCI
Conforto térmico em espaços públicos de passagem: estudos em ruas de pedestres no estado de São Paulo
Este artigo apresenta resultados de um estudo sobre conforto tĂ©rmico em espaços pĂşblicos de passagem, em ruas de pedestres nas cidades de Campinas, Bauru e Presidente Prudente, no Estado de SĂŁo Paulo. O estudo foi desenvolvido dentro de uma pesquisa mais ampla sobre o conforto tĂ©rmico em diferentes tipos de espaços urbanos abertos, nas mesmas cidades. A metodologia empregada envolveu o monitoramento microclimático (temperatura, temperatura de globo, umidade relativa do ar, velocidade do ar e radiação solar global), em diferentes condições de tempo, e entrevistas estruturadas, para identificar a sensação tĂ©rmica e as variáveis pessoais dos usuários. A análise dos resultados permitiu identificar diferenças entre a sensação tĂ©rmica real (ASV) e o conforto calculado pela temperatura fisiolĂłgica equivalente (PET). Os limites de conforto tĂ©rmico variaram entre as cidades: 20-29 ÂşC para Campinas, 21-30 ÂşC para Bauru, e 14-24 ÂşC para Presidente Prudente. Entretanto, a sensação de neutralidade tĂ©rmica para 59,5% do total da amostra (308 de 519 indivĂduos) foi de 18 a 26 ÂşC. Esses resultados sĂŁo compatĂveis com os limites propostos por Monteiro e Alucci (2007) para a cidade de SĂŁo Paulo e podem contribuir como parâmetro de avaliação da qualidade tĂ©rmica de outros espaços pĂşblicos de passagem nas mesmas cidades
Urban Climate Map System for Dutch spatial planning
Facing climate change and global warming, outdoor climatic environment is an important consideration factor for planners and policy makers because improving it can greatly contribute to achieve citizen’s thermal comfort and create a better urban living quality for adaptation. Thus, the climatic information must be assessed systematically and applied strategically into the planning process. This paper resents a tool named Urban Climate Map System (UCMS) that has proven capable of helping compact cities to incorporate climate effects in planning processes in a systematic way. UCMS is developed and presented in a Geographic Information System (GIS) platform in which the lessons learned and experience gained from interdisciplinary studies can be included. The methodology of UCMS of compact cities, the construction procedure, and the basic input factors – including the natural climate resources and planning data – are described. Some literatures that shed light on the applicability of UMCS are reported. The Municipality of Arnhem is one of Dutch compact urban areas and still under fast urban development and urban renewal. There is an urgent need for local planners and policy makers to protect local climate and open landscape resources and make climate change adaptation in urban construction. Thus, Arnhem is chosen to carry out a case study of UCMS. Although it is the first work of Urban Climatic Mapping in The Netherlands, it serves as a useful climatic information platform to local planners and policy makers for their daily on-going works. We attempt to use a quick method to collect available climatic and planning data and create an information platform for planning use. It relies mostly on literature and theoretical understanding that has been well practiced elsewhere. The effort here is to synergize the established understanding for a case at hand and demonstrate how useful guidance can still be made for planners and policy makers