A recent paper has been published in the prestigious journal of “Sustainable Cities and Society”. The paper, entitled “High-resolution outdoor heat-risk modeling for city central areas with applications to Tokyo and Lyon”, was conducted in collaboration with various research faculty and students from within the Institute of Science Tokyo, University of Lyon, Actierra, Building Research Institute, and the International Research Institute of Disaster Science of Tohoku University. The authors of the work are Alvin C.G. Varquez, Janat Taerakul, Florent Renard, Lucille Alonso, Sunkyung Choi, Ryoga Hiroki, Yasunobu Ashie, Eiko Kumakura, Makoto Okumura, Shinya Hanaoka, Atsushi Inagaki, and Manabu Kanda.
The work comprises physical modeling and geospatial modeling of various datasets to establish spatiotemporal heat risk maps in two cities that are geographically apart, Tokyo (Japan) and Lyon (France). The paper describes an approach of mapping risks consistent with the IPCC definition, where risk should be influenced by components, such as “hazard”, “exposure”, “vulnerability”, and “adaptive capacity”.
It is the wish of the authors that the work will contribute to society’s continual need to thrive amidst various environmental risks. The methodology presented is not restrictive to heat-risk mapping, but to any forms of environmental risks. In addition, the work exhaustively utilizes publicly-available geospatial and meteorological data, when needed.
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