Evaluation of the health-risk reduction potential of countermeasures to urban heat islands

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  2016

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  Energy and Buildings

• Publication date

  2016-02-15

• Fields of study

  Engineering, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/J.ENBUILD.2015.06.038
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