Opinion: Urban cooling priorities in Brisbane?
Based on analysis by Daveh Deilami (UQ), suburbs feeling the additional heat of up to 7 ºC of urban heat island (UHI) effects in Brisbane are those where we are asking more people to live, work and walk!!! Deilami, K., M. Kamruzzaman and J. Hayes (2016). Correlation or Causality between Land Cover Patterns and the Urban Heat Island Effect? Evidence from Brisbane, Australia. Remote Sensing 8(9): 716.