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Island city formation and urban island studies

Area, 2015
Regional, national and global cities are disproportionately located on small islands and archipelagos. The ‘spatial turn’ within island and urban geography increasingly privileges abstract notions of space, yet the prevalence of big cities on small islands suggests that sensitivity to place‐specific spatial factors is necessary if we are to understand ...
Adam Grydehøj
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Construction of a cold island network for the urban heat island effect mitigation

Science of the Total Environment
The urban heat island (UHI) effect seriously challenges sustainable urban development strategies and livability. Numerous studies have explored the UHI problem from the perspective of isolated blue and green patches, ignoring the overall function of cold
Minhua Wang, Jianwen Dong
exaly   +2 more sources

Tensions and challenges in the decolonisation of academic publishing: A cross‐tabulation analysis of articles in Island Studies Journal

Learned Publishing, 2023
Calls to decolonise academia are increasing, yet progress has been halting, including in academic publishing. This paper considers publishing practices and outcomes in Island Studies Journal (a diamond open access, multidisciplinary, high‐ranked journal),
Adam Grydehøj, Ping Su, Shoujuan Huang, Y. Nadarajah   +3 more
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Regional and urban heat island studies in megacities: A systematic analysis of research methodology

Indoor and Built Environment, 2022
The paper provides a systematic review of satellite-based regional and urban heat island (RHI and UHI) studies in cities and their challenges, from 2010 to the present based on visualizing scientific landscapes (VOS) viewer analysis and Scopus and ...
Mekonnen Amberber Degefu, M. Argaw, G. Feyisa, Sileshi Degefa   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source