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Investigating Social Vulnerability to Extreme Heat: Heat Islands and Climate Shelters in Urban Contexts: The Case of Bologna

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
In this article we present three instruments: (1) a social vulnerability to extreme heat index to identify the areas of a city (and populations thereof) more vulnerable to extreme heat due to climate change (heat islands); (2) a new overall fragility ...
Elisa Maccabiani, Munazza Usmani, Riccardo Nanni, Maurizio Napolitano   +3 more
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Data-driven tools for optimizing urban tree planting strategies

City and Environment Interactions
In this study, we propose a universally applicable, two-level approach aimed at optimizing both tree planting locations and species selection, integrating the model into an intuitive Web Application.
Luca Maccacaro, Eleonora Andreotti, Munazza Usmani, Riccardo Nanni, Maurizio Napolitano   +4 more
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Global Open Research Commons: Creating an International Model for Improved Interoperability and Collaboration

Data Science Journal
In response to the global movement to implement national and cross-national or global commons, a Research Data Alliance (RDA) Interest Group was formed to work towards a community-developed typology for describing research commons.
Andrew Treloar, Charles Joseph Woodford
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L'importante ruolo degli open data nelle emergenze

GEOmedia, 2016
The important role of open data in emergencies During emergencies, the geographic information plays a very important and delicate role becoming the main tool to understand what happened and to take decisions.
Maurizio Napolitano
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Auditing the 2020 ‘Christmas Decree’: communicating pandemic restrictions during Italy’s first ‘Covid-Christmas’

Italian Political Science
This article investigates the online public reception of travel restrictions during the Covid-19 pandemic in Italy and the role of civil society in communicating them.
Riccardo Nanni, Maurizio Napolitano
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Assessing the Effects of the Urban Forest Restoration Effort of MillionTreesNYC on the Structure and Functioning of New York City Ecosystems

Cities and the Environment, 2010
Current forest restoration practices for New York City’s (NYC) MillionTreesNYC Initiative on public parkland include site preparation with extensive invasive species removal and tree and shrub planting with the goal of creating new multi-layered forests.
P. Timon McPhearson, Michael Feller, Alexander Felson, Richard Karty, Jacqueline W.T. Lu, Matthew I. Palmer, Tim Wenskus   +6 more
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Ecological Impacts of Replacing Traditional Roofs with Green Roofs in Two Urban Areas

Cities and the Environment, 2008
Urban land cover is dominated by impervious surface that degrades both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems relative to predevelopment conditions. There are significant opportunities for designers of urban landscapes to use alternative land covers that ...
Timothy Carter, Colleen Butler
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Landscaping Locally: Fostering Stewardship with Real Science in High School Curricula

Cities and the Environment, 2008
The Igniting Streams of Learning in Science (ISLS) academy engages 11th and 12th grade students and their teachers in a year-long learning community (LC) experience.
Sajit Zachariah, Mary Louise Holly, Dennis J. Taylor   +2 more
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Landscape Sustainability in a Sonoran Desert City

Cities and the Environment, 2008
The objective of this paper is to discuss concepts of landscape sustainability in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Phoenix is situated in the greater Salt River Valley of the lower Sonoran Desert in the southwest United States.
Chris A. Martin
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Front-loading Urban Stormwater Management for Success – A Perspective Incorporating Current Studies on the Implementation of Retrofit Low-impact Development

Cities and the Environment, 2008
Recent work into the implementation of low-impact development (LID) suggests that a decentralized, source-control approach has the potential to significantly reduce urban stormwater runoff quantity.
Matthew A. Morrison, William D. Shuster, Rachel Webb   +2 more
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