Perceived impacts of Urban Heat Island phenomenon in a tropical metropolitan city: Perspectives from stakeholder dialogue sessions

Nasrin Aghamohammadi; Logaraj Ramakreshnan; Chng Saun Fong; Rafidah Md Noor; Noor Rosly Hanif; Nik Meriam Sulaiman

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150331

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Perceived impacts of Urban Heat Island phenomenon in a tropical metropolitan city: Perspectives from stakeholder dialogue sessions

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Perceived impacts of Urban Heat Island phenomenon in a tropical metropolitan city: Perspectives from stakeholder dialogue sessions

Nasrin Aghamohammadi, Logaraj Ramakreshnan, Chng Saun Fong, Rafidah Md Noor, Noor Rosly Hanif and Nik Meriam Sulaiman

The Science of the total environment, Vol.806(Part 1), 150331

2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150331

PMID: 34571225

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Perceived impact

Stakeholder dialogue session

Sustainable city

Urban Heat Island

Urbanization

The stakeholders’ perceptions on the impacts of Urban Heat Island (UHI) are critical for reducing exposure and influencing their response to interventions that are aimed at encouraging a behaviour change. A proper understanding of the UHI impacts on the society, economy and environment is deemed an essential motivating factor for the stakeholders to work towards UHI mitigations in the local context. This study adopted an inductive qualitative approach using Stakeholder Dialogue Sessions (SDSs) to assess the perceived impacts of UHI among various stakeholders, comprising policy makers, academicians, developers and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO), in a tropical metropolitan city. The results revealed five themes such as deterioration of public health, acceleration of urban migration patterns and spending time in cooler areas, reduction of workers’ productivity, increased energy consumption by the households and deterioration of environmental quality and natural resources that were categorized into social, economic and environmental impacts. Although most of the stakeholders were quite unfamiliar with the term UHI, they still display a good understanding of the potential impacts of UHI due to their posteriori knowledge and ability to rationalize the physical condition of the environment in which they live. The findings provide useful insights and valuable information to the local authorities to tailor necessary actions and educational campaigns to increase UHI awareness among the stakeholders. Being among the earlier studies to use a qualitative approach to attain the aforementioned objective, the findings are crucial to determine the level of understanding of the stakeholders on the impact of UHI. Through this study, the authors have highlighted the gaps and needs for knowledge improvements aimed at behaviour change among the stakeholders.

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Title: Perceived impacts of Urban Heat Island phenomenon in a tropical metropolitan city: Perspectives from stakeholder dialogue sessions
Authors/Creators: Nasrin Aghamohammadi - University of Malaya
Logaraj Ramakreshnan - University of Malaya
Chng Saun Fong - University of Malaya
Rafidah Md Noor - University of Malaya
Noor Rosly Hanif - University of Malaya
Nik Meriam Sulaiman - University of Malaya
Publication Details: The Science of the total environment, Vol.806(Part 1), 150331
Publisher: Elsevier B.V
Identifiers: 991005618228807891
Murdoch Affiliation: Murdoch University
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article

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Citation topics: 8 Earth Sciences; 8.19 Oceanography, Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences; 8.19.743 Urban Heat Island
Web Of Science research areas: Environmental Sciences
ESI research areas: Environment/Ecology