Aghamohammadi, Nasrin and Ramakreshnan, Logaraj and Fong, Chng Saun and Md Noor, Rafidah and Hanif, Noor Rosly and Sulaiman, Nik Meriam (2022) Perceived impacts of Urban Heat Island phenomenon in a tropical metropolitan city: Perspectives from stakeholder dialogue sessions. Science of The Total Environment, 806 (1). ISSN 0048-9697, DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150331.
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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 under-standing 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 qual-itative approach using Stakeholder Dialogue Sessions (SDSs) to assess the perceived impacts of UHI among var-ious 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 stake-holders 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. (c) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Funders: | Universiti Malaya [Grant No: GC002-15SUS] |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Perceived impact; Stakeholder dialogue session; Sustainable city; Urban Heat Island; Urbanization |
| Subjects: | Q Science > Q Science (General) T Technology > TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology Faculty of Engineering Faculty of Medicine Faculty of Science Institute of Advanced Studies |
| Depositing User: | Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Apr 2022 04:27 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Apr 2022 04:27 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/33764 |
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