Using Google Street View photographs to assess long-term outdoor thermal perception and thermal comfort in the urban environment during heatwaves

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2022.878341" target="_blank" >10.3389/fenvs.2022.878341</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Using Google Street View photographs to assess long-term outdoor thermal perception and thermal comfort in the urban environment during heatwaves

Original language description

The outdoor thermal comfort of urban residents is negatively affected by heatwaves that are becoming more frequent and severe with the ongoing climate crisis. As such, the assessment of outdoor perception and comfort during heatwaves has become an important ingredient of successful urban adaptation strategies. However, systematic assessment of long-term thermal perception across a large number of places and large populations of people is difficult. In this study, we consider an approach to the assessment of long-term thermal perception that combines features of currently used approaches (i.e., use of rating scales of thermal perception, use of surveys, and the use of photographs representing places) and we provide some preliminary validation of this approach. Specifically, across three studies conducted in two Czech cities, we show that long-term thermal perceptions for a large sample of 1,856 urban places can be elicited in a large sample of city residents (total N = 1,812) using rating scales in off-site surveys complemented with visual representations of the target locations. In Studies 1 and 2, we partially validate this approach by showing that such long-term thermal perceptions can be traced back to average surface temperature, sky-view factor, and the presence of blue and green infrastructure, all factors that the literature relates to thermal perception. Moreover, we show evidence that observers can reliably glean these properties from the visual representation of places. In Study 3, we provide additional evidence of the predictive validity of such long-term thermal perceptions by showing that they predict place-related activities (waiting and walking) and the place preference of other people more than one year later. Thus, this approach to the measurement of long-term thermal perception related to heatwaves can be a useful addition to currently used approaches.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)

Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Frontiers in Environmental Science

ISSN

2296-665X

e-ISSN

2296-665X

Volume of the periodical

10

Issue of the periodical within the volume

AUG

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

878341

UT code for WoS article

000847836900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85137014476