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Local adaptations to manage heat in Lima, Peru, focus on mitigating the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect—particularly in dense, low-income areas like Lince—by expanding green corridors, increasing tree canopy cover, and applying cool surfaces.
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A common architectural approach to indoor cooling is the inclusion of openings in a building´s exterior surface—for example, doors, windows and vents 8 . These openings facilitate indoor and outdoor heat transfer through ventilation—that is, both cross-ventilation and stack-ventilation.
