Environment Issues and Protection Strategies in Shenzhen

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Environment Issues and Protection Strategies in Shenzhen
Introduction
The environmental issues within the contemporary society have played a significant role in the city development. This is particularly because climate is closely associated with planning of the city. Hence, city planning ought to take into consideration the environmental issues to ascertain sustainable development and at the same time ecological construction (ZHOU et al.
p. 969). This paper focuses on the environment issues confronted by Shenzhen which is a modern city in China. The aim of the paper is to analyze the environmental pollution problems and intense urban island effect.
Discussion
Environmental protection is extremely essential for the survival of the humans for the reason that any major changes in the climate can place a significant impact on the activities of human as well as result in various environmental issues including heat island effect, greenhouse effect and air pollution. Hence, to alleviate environmental issues within urban cities, urban planning is the most feasible method. Shenzhen is situated in the South China within the Guangdong province (Wang et a., p.1001). The climate of the city in the recent times have drastically changed leading to decreased visibility, humidity and sunshine and at the same time increased precipitation intensity as well as rising temperature. The weather system of high and middle latitudes typically influence the climate of Shenzhen. The city is witnessing heat island effect that correspond to higher temperatures within the city when compared to the temperature in the external suburbs. The increase in temperature is mainly because of the artificial buildings and roads as well as reduction in green space. The figures below demonstrates the urban heat island effect.
Figure 1: Urban Island Effect
Figure 2: Creation of urban heat island effect.
Even though Shenzhen is located in the Southern coastal region, the city is witnessing increasing temperatures that demonstrate the existence of the heat island effect. This effect is higher in the center region of the city while weak in the eastern part.
Figure 3. Distribution of urban heat island
There are several negative effects of the heat island effect such as accumulation of the harmful gases and dust, increase in the fog and clouds. The heat island effect also influences the distribution of the air pollution above the urban area and lead to air pollution. In addition, the heat island effect, deteriorate the quality of the urban environment and stimulate several human diseases. It raises the temperature of the urban cities by minimum 1 centigrade in contrast to the temperature in the suburbs (Peijun & Deyong ., 293). Apart from this high as well as dense buildings in the city obstruct the circulation of the heat and minimize the speed of the wind. Higher temperatures are not even sui...