An innovative scheme to confront the trade-off between water conservation, drought reduction, and heat alleviation for urban sustainability: a case study in Phoenix, Arizona

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Citation format: Yuanhui Zhu, Soe Myint, Xin Feng, Yubin Li. An innovative scheme to confront the trade-off between water conservation, drought reduction, and heat alleviation for urban sustainability. 

This study aims to develop a practical and integrated framework to tackle the trade-off between land surface temperature (LST) reduction and water conservation for heat mitigation and resilience planning. We developed a multi-objective framework of spatial optimization for priority areas that considers environmental justice. We employed the priority areas (i.e., residential districts, socio-economically disadvantaged neighborhoods, hotspot regions, and opportunity areas), ECOSTRESS-based LST, actual evapotranspiration (ETa, as a proxy to water use), Landsat-based LST and ETa changes (2000–2020), and the evaporative stress index (ESI). These datasets are used to identify the priority areas in which environmental conditions need to be improved seriously and (2) spatially optimize the placement of new green space (tree %, grass %) in the priority areas to realize the most significant LST reduction and minimum OWU.

note: LULC: Land use and land cover; LST: Land Surface Temperature; ETa: Actual Evapotranspiration; ESI: Evaporative Stress Index