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Environmental Impact Assessment Review 31 (2011) 97–111 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Environmental Impact Assessment Review journal homepage: Assessing climate impacts of planning policies—An estimation for the urban region of Leipzig (Germany) Nina Schwarz ⁎, Annette Bauer, Dagmar Haase Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research—UFZ, Department of Computational Landscape Ecology, Permoserstrasse 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany article info abstract Article history: Local climate regulation by urban green areas is an important urban ecosystem service, as it reduces the Received 30 October 2009 extent of the urban heat island and therefore enhances quality of life. Local and regional planning policies Received in revised form 2 February 2010 can control land use changes in an urban region, which in turn alter local climate regulation. Thus, this paper Accepted 5 February 2010 describes a method for estimating the impacts of current land uses as well as local and regional planning Available online 19 March 2010 policies on local climate regulation, using evapotranspiration and land surface emissivity as indicators. This method can be used by practitioners to evaluate their policies. An application of this method is demonstrated Keywords: Climate regulation for the case study Leipzig (Germany). Results for six selected planning policies in Leipzig indicate their Urban heat island distinct impacts on climate regulation and especially the role of their spatial extent. The proposed method
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