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Future “greener” urban transport: accessible, mobile and resilient cities? [PDF]
Geographers, amongst others, have been considering urban futures for some time now. They all try to conceptually understand what a “sustainable city” in Europe / the UK / globally might look like.
Kotter, Richard
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Multidimensional Regional Development in EU: A Systematic Review
ABSTRACT Regional disparities within the EU remain a persistent challenge, demanding comprehensive research. Enhancing cohesion and convergence while promoting sustainability between and within its regions is crucial to addressing these disparities. This study conducts a systematic literature review on regional development in the EU, identifying key ...
Alexandre Canário Borrega +2 more
wiley +1 more source
Bake Sales to Save Nature: Why Wall Street Conservation Survives
ABSTRACT Academics have spent decades analysing the harms and failures of market and finance‐led biodiversity policy. Yet, even though ‘selling nature to save it’ looks less like the promised green capitalism and more like a decades‐long bake sale in that its efforts are small, piecemeal and rely on copious amounts of cheap capital, the approach ...
Jessica Dempsey
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Does Board Gender Diversity Matter for Engagement in the Science‐Based Targets Initiative?
ABSTRACT This study investigates the impact of board gender diversity on corporate engagement in the Science‐Based Targets initiative (SBTi). Drawing from stakeholder and resource dependence theories, we hypothesize that increased female representation on boards strengthens a firm's adherence to scientifically validated climate targets.
Martin Schüder, Henning Zülch
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This article evaluates the state of climate resilience in the City of Toronto using a newly developed, context‐specific Community Climate Resilience Assessment Framework (CCRAF). Results indicate that climate–water governance and community climate resilience in the City of Toronto are partially and moderately developed, with significant opportunity to ...
Yena Bassone‐Quashie, Carolyn Johns
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Picking Losers: Climate Change and Managed Decline in the European Union
ABSTRACT Decarbonization forces societies to cope with the restructuring and outright unwinding of assets, firms, workers, industries, and regions. We argue that this problem has created legitimacy for industrial policies managing the reallocation of resources.
Timur Ergen, Luuk Schmitz
wiley +1 more source
Avaliação de parâmetros de combustíveis automotivos
Os combustíveis derivados do petróleo como a gasolina e o diesel são parte integrante do dia a dia da população brasileira e mundial, principalmente para o uso em automóveis.
Jordan, Vitor Junqueira de Souza [UNIFESP]
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Nutrient Dynamics in a Coupled Terrestrial Biosphere and Land Model (ELM‐FATES‐CNP)
Abstract We present a representation of nitrogen and phosphorus cycling in the Functionally Assembled Terrestrial Ecosystem Simulator, a demographic vegetation model within the Energy Exascale Earth System land model. This representation is modular, and designed to allow testing of multiple hypothetical approaches for carbon‐nutrient coupling in plants.
Ryan G. Knox +14 more
wiley +1 more source
Development and characterization of phototrophic aerobic granular sludge [PDF]
arbon dioxide (CO2) produced in aerobic wastewater treatment has contributed to the greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions in the atmosphere and can cause global warming.
Dahalan, Farrah Aini
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Development of a ray tracer for concentrating solar power systems [PDF]
Thesis (MEng)--Stellenbosch University, 2017.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The world limate system is hanging and recent researh shows that man-made arbon dioxide emissions from proesses such as coal-fired power generation is the most likely cause. In South Afri a
Bode, Sebastian-James
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