Document Type : Research Paper
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Department of Geography and Urban Planning, Faculty of Humanities, University of Tarbiat Modares, Tehran, Iran.
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Geography and urban planing,Faculty of Humanity, Tarbiat Modares university,Tehran, Iran
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Department of Geography and Urban Planning, Faculty of Geographical Sciences and Planning, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran
10.22059/jtcp.2025.386543.670483
Abstract
The urban heat island (UHI) is the most visible manifestation of climate change in cities, which has attracted a lot of research interest today. Despite the high importance of UHI and the large volume of studies conducted in this field, this issue has not been systematically analyzed in domestic research. The present study was developed with the aim of meta-analyzing in the field of UHI and, by focusing on domestic studies, The statistical population of the study includes reputable domestic publications and articles indexed in the databases of Magiran, Normagz, and Jihad Daneshgahi, which includes a total of 213 studies. The findings of the study indicate an upward trend in studies, and their dimensions and depth have gradually increased in this field. So far, UHI have been studied in more than 40 cities in the country, the most of which have been conducted in the cities of Tehran (33%), Isfahan (8.25%), and Mashhad (7.28%). These studies have been published in more than 88 domestic journals, with geographers and climatologists playing the largest role in their compilation. About 90% of the studies are of an applied type and have been written with a quantitative approach. In addition, satellite images and meteorological data have been used more than other methods in data collection . Four main thematic areas were identified in UHI studies, of which “measuring UHI and the impact of various factors on them” is the dominant one in the studies. Finally, the present study extracts the gaps in the topic of UHI and reminds that a reasonable amount of knowledge has been produced in the field of measuring UHI so far; However, it is not enough and future studies should move towards providing mitigation and adaptation solutions and strategies, and consequently increasing the climate resilience of cities against this phenomenon.
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