The climatology as an essential component in the diagnosis and assessment of environmental impacts in urbanized areas. The case of Porto

Authors

  • Ana Monteiro Universidade do Porto

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14195/1647-7723_1_2

Keywords:

Land use planning, environmental impacts, physical geography, urban climatology, urban heat island, air pollution, healtb.

Abstract

Physical Geography, namely Climatology, can give an useful contribution to understand the complicate network of relationships among multiple variables responsible for the longlist of environmental impacts founding the urban ecosystem. We support our argument on an example of Oporto, where it is obvious and carne out easily, the close links between climate and life quality standards. We show some examples of how inoperative will be an environmental policy if it tries to solve, for instance, the air and soil quality without knowing in detail the regional and local behavior of temperature, precipitation, pressure, wind, etc

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Published

1994-09-21

Issue

No. 1 (1994)

Section

Articles

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Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows sharing the work with recognition of authorship and initial publication in Antropologia Portuguesa journal.