To adapt to the everchanging climate of our campus, expanding tree top canopy cover and shaded walkways, utilizing urban vegetation like soil bedding and green roofing or walls, and increasing biodiversity in turf/green areas should increase evapotranspiration and decrease latent heat. This decrease should in turn decrease heat related problems in humans.
To mitigate heat further, using high albedo or reflective materials, implementing permeable pavement, and decreasing asphalt use should decrease heat retention and heat absorption on campus. This should also decrease some pollution induced human issues, increasing quality of life on campus.
Increasing number of hydration stations and cooling areas, creating and maintaining a detailed heat action plan with an adaptive management system, and increasing carpool incentives, should increase human health, quality of life, student and faculty participation in mitigation, long term sustainability, and decrease human health problems related to heat and pollution.