IMPACTS OF URBAN HEAT ISLAND ON HUMAN PHYSIOLOGICAL COMFORT IN ILORIN CITY, NIGERIA

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dc.contributor.authorRhoda Mojisola, Olanrewaju
dc.contributor.authorOlabinri, Ezekiel O.
dc.contributor.authorNegedu, Cephas E.
dc.contributor.authorAkpan, Godwin P.
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-21T10:01:19Z
dc.date.available2019-10-21T10:01:19Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractMan needs comfort to carry out his daily activiues productively. Physiologic comfort according to Ayoade (1993) is defined as condition in which a person's body is in thermal equilibrium with his immediate environment. World Meteorological Organization (1984) also defined physiological comfort as a state in which a person has no wish to decrease or increase insolation or to adjust the ambient thermal environment. With the development of urban areas, changes occur in their landscape, such as changes reflect in building of houses, industries, roads and other infrastructure which replace the open land and vegetation. Thus, surfaces that were once permeable and moist become impermeable and dry these changes caused urban regions to become warmer than their rural surroundings, forming an island of high temperature with landscapeen_US
dc.identifier.issn2439-5881
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/2937
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherFederal University, Dutseen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries2;1
dc.subjectUrbanizationen_US
dc.subjectHeal Indexen_US
dc.subjectHuman Comforten_US
dc.subjectLanden_US
dc.titleIMPACTS OF URBAN HEAT ISLAND ON HUMAN PHYSIOLOGICAL COMFORT IN ILORIN CITY, NIGERIAen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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