ACADEMIC STAFF
Iain Douglas Stewart, Ph.D.
Global Cities Institute, Toronto, Canada
Urban Climatology & Sustainable Urban Development
Dr. Iain D. Stewart holds a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada. He is currently a Sessional Lecturer at UBC and a Research Fellow of the Global Cities Institute in Toronto. A specialist in urban climatology, Iain is internationally renowned for his work on the urban heat island from both historical and scientific perspectives. A significant output of his work is the Local Climate Zone (LCZ) classification system, which is used worldwide as a spatial and analytical framework for urban climate studies. Iain is engaged with supporting researchers around the world and is highly regarded for his innovative, holistic, and rigorous approach to science. He is a 2021 recipient of the prestigious Timothy Oke Award for Original Research in Urban Climatology, and a two-time recipient of the William P. Lowry Methodology Award, given by the International Association for Urban Climate. Iain is co-author of the text The Urban Heat Island - A Guidebook (Elsevier), and is Associate Editor for the journal Urban Climate.
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
Roncancio DN, Stewart ID. 2022. Urban climatic maps for environmental planning in Manizales, Colombia. Cybergeo: European Journal of Geography, 1013.
Stewart ID, Mills G. 2021. The Urban Heat Island - A Guidebook. Elsevier: Amsterdam, NL.
Stewart ID, Krayenhoff ES, et al. 2021. Time evolution of the surface heat island. Earth`s Future, 9, e2021EF002178.
Stewart ID. 2019. Why should urban heat island researchers study history? Urban Climate, 30, 100484.
Stewart ID, Kennedy C, et al. 2018. The electric city as a solution to sustainable urban development. Journal of Urban Technology, 25, 3–20.
Kennedy C, Stewart ID, et al. 2015. Energy and material flows of megacities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 112, 5985–90.
Stewart ID, Oke TR, et al. 2014. Evaluation of the ‘local climate zone’ scheme using temperature observations and model simulations. International Journal of Climatology, 34, 1062–80.
Stewart ID. 2013. Local climates of the city. Architectural Design, 83, 100–105.
Stewart ID, Oke TR. 2012. Local Climate Zones for urban temperature studies. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 93, 1879–1900.
Stewart ID. 2011. A systematic review and scientific critique of methodology in modern urban heat island literature. International Journal of Climatology, 31, 200–17.
