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Regarding Some Pitfalls in Urban Heat Island Studies Using Remote Sensing Technology
Remote Sensing, 2021 This paper attempts to illustrate the complexity of thermal infrared (TIR) data analysis for urban heat island studies. While a certain shift regarding the use of correct scientific nomenclature (using the term “surface urban heat island”) could be ...
E. Parlow
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Decolonial thinking: A critical perspective on positionality and representations in island studies
Island Studies Journal, 2021 Scholars conducting research on and about islands face the challenge of countering the epistemic and methodological dominance of external perspectives on islands with an insular internal view, while also avoiding essentializing the island or reproducing ...
Sarah Nimführ, Greca N. Meloni
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Coastal Engineering Proceedings, 1976 The location of large surface industrial zones along sea shores often competes with other coastal activities, such as recreational pursuits, fishing, nature reserves, etc. The construction of an artificial island in the sea, near the shore, is a solution to which it will perhaps be necessary to have recourse in the fairly near future.
J. P. Lepetit, S. Moreau
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Island Studies Journal 3(2), Book Reviews
Island Studies Journal, 2008 Island Studies Journal 3(2), Book ...
Island Studies Journal
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Island Studies Journal 5(2), Book Reviews
Island Studies Journal, 2010 Island Studies Journal 5(2), Book reviews.
Island Studies Journal
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Disproportionate exposure to urban heat island intensity across major US cities
Nature Communications, 2021 Urban heat stress poses a major risk to public health. Case studies of individual cities suggest that heat exposure, like other environmental stressors, may be unequally distributed across income groups.
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This shoal which is not one: Island studies, performance studies, and Africans who fly
, 2020 This essay explores variant stories surrounding the 1803 ‘Igbo Landing’ on St. Simons Island, Georgia, in which a group of enslaved Africans mutinied against their captors and ran aground upon a shoal. Following Tiffany Lethabo King and other scholars of
R. Schneider
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Island Studies Journal 2(2), Book Reviews
Island Studies Journal, 2007 _Island Studies Journal_ 2(2), Book ...
Island Studies Journal
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