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Evaluation of Sustainable Urban Design With a Focus on Spatial Organization and Climatic Analysis

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The urban heat island (UHI) effect increases with the growth of cities and population. This situation triggers global climate change, and cities are negatively affected by this situation. In this study, five provinces (Antalya, Gaziantep, Bursa, Kayseri, and Erzurum) located in different climate zones in Turkey were selected as samples ...
Ahmet Salih Günaydın, Murat Yücekaya
wiley   +1 more source

The European Concept of Green Corridors in Sustainable Transport Systems : Case of East-West Transport Corridor in the Baltic Sea Region

, 2011
A new European concept - Green Corridors - has been introduced to the EU member states defining them as long-distance freight transport corridors where advanced technology and co-modality are used to achieve energy efficiency and reduce environmental ...
Thomaeus, Baiba
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Features and prospects of development of transit container transportation on the Northern sea route

, 2021
Due to the congestion of the main transit container corridors, there is an urgent need for the development of alternative container lines. This trend prompted us to conduct a study of an alternative sea corridor to the Suez Canal.
Yudnikova E S
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Green Transition, Extractive Continuities: Lithium Mining and the Environmental Contradictions of Sustainability

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Global decarbonization has positioned lithium as a strategic mineral for electric vehicles, battery storage, and low‐carbon development. Yet its extraction raises serious environmental, political, and justice concerns that complicate dominant narratives of clean energy progress.
Jacob Kwakye
wiley   +1 more source

Stakeholder Governance of the Energy‐Biodiversity Nexus in the Renewable Energy Sector: Pathways to Achieve SDGs in the MENA Region

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This systematic review examines stakeholder roles in managing biodiversity within renewable‐energy projects across the MENA region, a highly climate‐vulnerable region yet pursuing rapid energy transition toward achieving SDG 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy). The focus is on regulatory bodies and sector companies as primary actors.
Ghada Amin, Nora Adam, Remmer Sassen
wiley   +1 more source

A Generic Approach to Creating a National Soil Security Strategy

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Soil is a living and non‐renewable resource that underpins our very existence. It produces our food, filters our water, stores vast amounts of carbon, cycles essential nutrients, and sustains the rich tapestry of biodiversity on which our planet depends.
Alex McBratney, Pasquale Borrelli, Sandra J. Evangelista, Julia Feeth, Damien Field, Nicolas Francos, Irene Heuser, Anilkumar Hunakunti, Daniel Irving, Thilini Jayasekara, Bruce Lascelles, Fatima Maria de Souza Moreira, Budiman Minasny, Cristine L. S. Morgan, Wartini Ng, Julio C. Pachón Maldonado, Mercedes Román Dobarco, Amin Sharififar, Quentin Styc, Mara Thiene, David Watt, Jae E. Yang   +21 more
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Water-soluble brown carbon at the Indo-Gangetic Plain–Himalayan interface: seasonality, sources and optical properties

Environmental Research Communications
Brown carbon (BrC) is a key light-absorbing component of organic aerosol, yet its sources and radiative impacts remain poorly constrained in climate models, particularly across South Asia.
Hemraj Bhattarai, Lekhendra Tripathee, Qi Ying, Pengfei Chen, Shichang Kang, Guangming Wu, Shantanu Kumar Pani, Mukesh Rai, Sangita Gautam   +8 more
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Just Transition in Europe: A Regional Analysis of Environmental Inequality

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The European Green Deal and the just‐transition agenda promise that no person and no place will be left behind, yet the regional distribution of multi‐impact, emission‐based environmental burdens remains insufficiently understood across Europe.
Iñaki Sasia, Gorka Bueno, Iker Etxano
wiley   +1 more source

Redefining the northern reach of Australia's dust transport system

, 2009
Present day dust transport from Australia has typically been considered to follow one of two principal pathways, either through the well studied southeast dust transport corridor into the Tasman Sea and Southern Ocean or through the lesser studied ...
McGowan, H, Clark, A, Marx, S., Clark, A., McGowan, H., Marx, S K   +5 more
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RETRACE Project: How to Enhance Resilience to Climate Risks in Pacific and Arctic Indigenous Communities?

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Risk management has evolved to analyze risks in a systemic way, integrating local knowledge with the abstract concept of resilience, which is now an imperative for vulnerable and exposed communities. However, existing decision‐support tools are mainly focused on technical‐functional aspects and, although based on rigorous and scientific ...
Pascal Emanuel Egli, Guangqing Chi, Hugo Comes, Erika Gavenus, Emma Lea Wheeler, Martina Calovi, Jeanne Gherardi, Tomasz Opach, Sabrina Scherzer, Damien Serre, Charlotte Heinzlef   +10 more
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