Urban heat island
Researcher
Jean Roger-Estrade
Jean Roger-Estrade is Professor of Agronomy at AgroParisTech and Head of the “Agronomic, Forestry, Water and Environment Science and Engineering” department. His teaching focuses on agronomy and the scientific bases
Researcher
Erwan Personne
Erwan Personne has been a senior lecturer and researcher in environmental sciences at UMR ECOSYS since 1998. He has published research on the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum and the emission and deposition of
Researcher
Sonia Le Mentec
Sonia Le Mentec is an AgroParisTech agricultural engineer by training who supplemented her studies with a master’s degree in mathematics for life sciences at the University of Paris-Saclay. She is currently a doctoral
Event
Heat in the city: understanding and mitigating urban heat islands
Cold materials, wind corridors, cool zones, mixed revegetation, green walls and roofs are among the solutions that make it possible to attenuate urban heat islands.
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Practitioner group
Nature in the city
The benefits and costs related to green infrastructure in cities need to be better understood through assessment tools that measure environmental impacts, for example, carbon emissions due to the transport of substrates,
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Project
Contribution of urban revegetation to urban heat island mitigation
A thesis project to understand to what extent the revegetation of the urban environment helps regulate the urban microclimate and contributes to the improvement of air quality.
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