#heat-governance
Issues, solutions, and case studies for heat-governance
Found 6 nodes with this tag: 1 issue · 1 solution · 4 case studies
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Issues 1
#00067Most ceramic-cooler designs are prototypes or art pieces — street-scale durability and maintenance are unproven
Most widely-publicised ceramic cooler designs (bloc°, TerraCool) are studio or exhibition prototypes with no street deployment record. CoolAnt/Ant Studio is the exception. Terracotta durability, scaling, biofouling, pump upkeep, and multi-season public-realm performance remain un
Solutions 1
#00008Passive-cooling urban design plus formal heat governance
Reintroduce passive cooling from traditional hot-climate design — shaded streets, courtyards, underground air channels — and pair it with heat governance: naming and categorizing heatwaves so the public treats heat as seriously as storms.
Case studies 4
Seville, Spain
OngoingCity of Seville with Atlantic Council Arsht-Rock (Extreme Heat Resilience Alliance), AEMET, Universidad de Sevilla and Pablo de Olavide University · since 2022 · City
In June 2022 Seville launched proMETEO Sevilla, the first system in the world to tie heat-wave forecasts to health outcomes and to name and categorize heat waves the way storms are named. A three-tier categorization wei…
City of Seville; Atlantic Council Arsht-Rock · 3 sources
Miami-Dade County, with the Atlantic Council Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center (Extreme Heat Resilience Alliance) · since 2021 · City
In 2021 Miami-Dade County appointed Jane Gilbert as the world's first Chief Heat Officer — a dedicated municipal post to coordinate extreme-heat response across agencies that otherwise treat heat as no one's specific re…
Miami-Dade County; Atlantic Council Arsht-Rock · 2 sources
Ahmedabad, India
SuccessAhmedabad Municipal Corporation, with NRDC, Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar, Public Health Foundation of India · since 2013 · City
After a 2010 heatwave killed 1,344 people, Ahmedabad built South Asia's first Heat Action Plan (2013) — a governance-led response combining color-coded early-warning red alerts pushed to residents, hospital "heat wards"…
Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation with NRDC and academic/public-health partners · 3 sources
Seville, Spain
SuccessCity of Seville with University of Seville (research evaluation) · 2025 · City
Seville revived a roughly 3,000-year-old passive-cooling technique, channeling air through underground galleries (a qanat-style system) to pre-cool it before delivering it to buildings and public space. The city has lon…
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