Interested in Chinas Urban Planning? Check out this awesome talk TOMORROW! The Role of Landscape Pattern in Urban Heat Island Mitigation Dr. Liding Chen Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences Abstract: World-wide urbanization contributes to global change. Green landscape plays a crucial role in regulating urban microclimate and improving urban living environments for local inhabitants. However, the explosive urban growth in China has resulted in the loss of green space and the increase of impervious surface, inducing many environmental concerns. Designing a landscape pattern in urban planning seems to be logical approach and effective measure for improving urban thermal environments. Does it really work? In this talk, I will discuss the role of green landscape in mitigating urban heat island. I will also present data on the contribution of both landscape composition and configuration on land surface temperature (LST) regulation. We found that approximately 56~57% variation of LSTwere explained by landscape composition while less than 12% variation of LST was attributed to landscape configuration. These findings implied that it is not wise to rest hope on landscape pattern design in improving urban thermal environments in the urban expansion. Keeping enough green space is required to meet the increased demand of local inhabitants on ecosystem services during urbanizations. Date: October 29, 2014 Time: 2:00-3:30pm Location: Biltmore Room, 5th Floor, 100 Europa Center, Chapel Hill, NC 27517 Dr. Liding Chen is currently a professor at the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He also serves as the deputy director of the State Key laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology at RECCS, the General Secretary of Ecological Society of china, and vice president in International Association of Landscape Ecology and the president of IALE-China branch. Dr. Chen received his BS degree in Geomorphology and Quaternary Geology from Peking University in 1985, and MS on Cartography, and PhD on Landscape Ecology from Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1988 and 2001, respectively. He is recipient of the prestigious NSF of China “Outstanding Young Scholar” Award. His research interests cover landscape pattern and ecological processes, land use/land cover change and its environmental effects, landscape planning and spatial modeling.
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