URBAN HEAT ISLAND AND URBAN HEALTH: EARLY AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES* |
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| Authors: | William B Meyer |
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| Institution: | WILLIAM B. MEYER (Ph.D., Clark Uninvrsity) is Associate Coordinator of the “Earth as Transformed by Human Action”Program in the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University. His research interests include environmental change, political geography, and the history of geographic thought. |
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| Abstract: | The nature and sources of early American understanding of an important form of human-induced climatic change, the urban heat island effect, are considered. Recognition and explanation of the phenomenon occured both earlier and more widely than is usually supposed. Interest stemmed not only from concerns that remain significant today, but from others that have been discarded, notably anticontagionist theories of the causation of disease. |
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| Keywords: | history of geographic though medical geography urban climatology |
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