/ @atilaiamarino Have you ever had the impression that a park parking lot was much hotter than its green area? This is a real phenomenon and is called an urban heat island. In today's video, Atila Iamarino explains why regions with many urban constructions (such as buildings, parking lots, asphalt and cement) can store and maintain much more heat than regions with vegetation cover and how this phenomenon impacts the lives of all of us. This is the seventh video in a series of 12 episodes that will address the Environment and Sustainability in Brazil. Script and presentation: Atila Iamarino - Twitter @oatila Instagram @oatila Scientific consultancy: Luiza Toledo Direction and production: Paloma Sato Content production support: Marcelo K. Sato Caramelo: Instagram: @marceloksato Image composition, animation and thumb: Giulia Donadio: Instagram: @giulia_donadio Editing and subtitles: Dener Yukio: Instagram: @dyukio References: Barros, HR, & Lombardo, MA (2016). The urban heat island and land use and cover in the municipality of São Paulo-SP. GEOUSP Space and Time (Online), 20(1), 160-177. Raymond, C., Matthews, T., & Horton, RM (2020). The emergence of heat and humidity too severe for human tolerance. Science Advances, 6(19), eaaw1838. Botton, GZ, Pinheiro, LKS, Oliveira, MCJ, Vasconcelos, AM, & de Jesus Lopes, JC (2021). The construction of conceptual approaches to sustainable and smart cities to overcome the challenges of the sustainable development goals. Desafio Online, 9(3). Chapman, S., Watson, JE, Salazar, A., Thatcher, M., & McAlpine, CA (2017). The impact of urbanization and climate change on urban temperatures: a systematic review. Landscape Ecology, 32(10), 1921-1935. Deilami, K., Kamruzzaman, M., & Liu, Y. (2018). Urban heat island effect: A systematic review of spatio-temporal factors, data, methods, and mitigation measures. International journal of applied earth observation and geoinformation, 67, 30-42. Freitas, ED, & DIAS, PLDS (2005). Some effects of urban areas on the generation of a heat island. Brazilian Journal of Meteorology, 20(3), 355-366. He, B.J., Wang, J., Liu, H., & Ulpiani, G. (2021). Localized synergies between heat waves and urban heat islands: implications on human thermal comfort and urban heat management. Environmental Research, 193, 110584. Heaviside, C., Macintyre, H., & Vardoulakis, S. (2017). The urban heat island: implications for health in a changing environment. Current environmental health reports, 4(3), 296-305. Li, D., Liao, W., Rigden, A. J., Liu, X., Wang, D., Malyshev, S., & Shevliakova, E. (2019). Urban heat island: Aerodynamics or imperviousness?. Science Advances, 5(4), eaau4299. Li, X., Zhou, Y., Yu, S., Jia, G., Li, H., & Li, W. (2019). Urban heat island impacts on building energy consumption: A review of approaches and findings. Energy, 174, 407-419. Ningrum, W. (2018, February). Urban heat island towards urban climate. In IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science (Vol. 118, No. 1, p. 012048). IOP Publishing. UN - United Nations. World Urbanization Prospects 2018: Brazil. New York: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, 2018. Romero, MAB, Baptista, GMDM, Lima, EAD, Werneck, DR, Vianna, EO, & Sales, GDL (2019). Climate change and urban heat islands. Ulpiani, G. (2021). On the linkage between urban heat island and urban pollution island: Three-decade literature review towards a conceptual framework. Science of the total environment, 751, 141727. https://g1.globo.com/sao-paulo/respir... https://oglobo.globo.com/politica/ond... https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-he...