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Legacy effects of redlining on the distribution of greenspaces in US cities

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, EarlyView.
We investigated how a discriminatory housing policy—redlining—has shaped the spatial patterns and configurations of greenspaces throughout 177 cities in the contiguous US. Housing segregation has been a long‐term development practice that has sequestered communities of color to areas with elevated environmental and public health risks.
Travis Gallo, Mason Fidino, Christopher J Schell, Marccus D Hendricks, Seth B Magle   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of Summer Heat Stress on Physiological Parameters and Reproductive Efficiency of Barbarine Ewes Under Natural Outdoor or Indoor Conditions

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate change and rising ambient temperatures increasingly challenge sheep production systems in arid and semi‐arid regions, particularly during the summer breeding season. This study evaluated the effects of heat stress and direct solar exposure on physiological responses, metabolic profile, and reproductive performance of Barbarine ewes, a ...
Samia Khnissi, Dorra Aouadi, Hela Chalouati, Mourad Rekik, Imène Ben Salem   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Green and cool roofs to mitigate urban heat island effects in the Chicago metropolitan area: evaluation with a regional climate model

Environmental Research Letters, 2016
The effects of urban heat islands (UHIs) have a substantial bearing on the sustainability of cities and environs. This paper examines the efficacy of green and cool roofs as potential UHI mitigation strategies to make cities more resilient against UHI ...
A Sharma, P Conry, H J S Fernando, Alan F Hamlet, J J Hellmann, F Chen   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Climate change and 2030 cooling demand in Ahmedabad, India: opportunities for expansion of renewable energy and cool roofs. [PDF]

Mitig Adapt Strateg Glob Chang, 2022
Joshi J, Magal A, Limaye VS, Madan P, Jaiswal A, Mavalankar D, Knowlton K.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Promotion of cool roofs ιn the EU-the cool roofs project

, 2009
Summarization: Cool roofs technology is an energy efficient, financially viable and sustainable solution for mitigating the heat island effect and its consequences and for reducing building energy consumption for cooling.
Santamouris Mat, Κολοκοτσα Διονυσια(http://users.isc.tuc.gr/~dkolokotsa), Kolokotsa Dionysia(http://users.isc.tuc.gr/~dkolokotsa), Synnefa Afroditi   +3 more
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Late Holocene environmental history of Dojran, Macedonia: Investigating the interplay of imperial dynamics and climatic change

Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents a high‐resolution, multi‐proxy reconstruction of environmental and land‐use change from Lake Dojran over historical times (last 2500 years), combining pollen, biomarkers, radiocarbon dating, Ottoman taxation records and other historical data.
Alessia Masi, Lucrezia Masci, Georgios C. Liakopoulos, Monica Bini, Alexander Francke, Ilaria Isola, Carlo Ricotta, Laura Sadori, Alexander Sarantis, Sławomir Sprawski, Jakub Sypiański, Irene Tunno, Cristiano Vignola, Bernd Wagner, Giovanni Zanchetta, Adam Izdebski   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Home and away: allometry and climate drive morphology of European rabbits in their native and introduced range

Oikos, EarlyView.
Climatic conditions shape phenotypic evolution by driving adaptations that optimise organismal function. Invasive species provide valuable systems to study these processes, as they often encounter novel climatic conditions in their introduced ranges. The European rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus, native to the Iberian Peninsula, has established populations
Rishab Pillai, Natasha Lee Hiotis, Christine Böhmer, Cécile Callou, Thomas J. Nelson, Irina Ruf, Thomas J. Sanger, Julia Schaar, Kévin Le Verger, Madeleine Geiger, Brian Kraatz, Emma Sherratt   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effects on heat mitigation, energy use, and carbon savings in urban-scale implementations of nature-based solutions

Geography and Sustainability
Extensive changes in land cover and energy use resulting from urbanization lead to an imbalance in urban thermal conditions, making cities more susceptible to the impacts of climate change. Nature-based solutions (NbS) that leverage the cooling effect of
Jinwook Chung, Kijune Sung
doaj   +1 more source

Integrating tunable LED‐induced plant responses with novel solar cell technologies for energy‐efficient agrivoltaic systems

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
The increasing demand for sustainable food production requires innovative solutions that balance productivity, resource efficiency, and environmental impact. Vertical Farming Systems (VFSs) offer a promising approach; however, their high energy consumption remains challenging.
Alessio Dessì, Carlo Spampinato, Fabiano Sillo, Salvatore Valastro, Mauro Centritto, Cecilia Brunetti, Andrea Ghirardo, Jörg‐Peter Schnitzler, Alessandra Alberti, Gianna Reginato, Aurora Rizzo, Raffaella Balestrini   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Overview on the Performance over time of Cool and Green Roofs as Countermeasures to Urban Heat Islands

Tema, 2015
In the last decades progressively growing efforts were spent to identify strategies and to develop tools and techniques helpful to design sustainable, resilient, and low energy built environments. Green and high albedo roofs have been proved as effective
Riccardo Paolini
doaj   +1 more source