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THE AESTHETICS OF URBAN METABOLISM: Landscape, Design and the Politics of In/Visibility

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, we chart the evolving aesthetic contours of urban metabolism across London, focusing on the River Lea and Thamesmead to the north and south of the River Thames, respectively. We begin in the nineteenth century, when these two sites formed critical nodes within a new sewerage system that relegated the city’s circulatory flows ...
Ben Platt, Zuhri James
wiley   +1 more source

On campus dormitories as viral transmission sinks: Phylodynamic insights into student housing networks during the COVID-19 pandemic. [PDF]

PLoS Pathog
Bolanos J, Dornburg A, Harris A, Kunkleman S, Ferdous J, Taylor W, Schlueter J, Gibas C.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

THE URBAN METABOLISM OF FLOOD PROTECTION INFRASTRUCTURE IN JAKARTA, INDONESIA

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Investments in large‐scale climate infrastructures are central to emerging forms of climate urbanism. In Jakarta, flood protection infrastructures seek to protect the city from devastating flood events in anticipation of future catastrophes.
Sophie Webber, Wahyu Kusuma Astuti
wiley   +1 more source

Declining winter snowpack offsets carbon storage enhancement from growing season warming in northern temperate forest ecosystems. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Conrad-Rooney E, Reinmann AB, Templer PH.   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source

EXPERIENCING MORE‐THAN‐PANDEMIC WATERSCAPES: An Intra‐urban Comparison of Water Practices and Geographies in Nairobi

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract While many African cities, such as Nairobi, fared comparatively well during the pandemic years, urban residents still faced compounded uncertainties and an unequal distribution of burdens that were infrastructurally co‐mediated, for example, within and through place‐specific waterscapes and their socio‐technical infrastructures.
Moritz Kasper, Elizabeth Wamuchiru, Sophie Schramm   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Soil nitrogen drives inverse acclimation of xylem growth cessation to rising temperature in Northern Hemisphere conifers. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Zhang Y, Huang JG, Wang M, Wang W, Yang F, Deslauriers A, Fonti P, Liang E, Mäkinen H, Oberhuber W, Rathgeber CBK, Tognetti R, Treml V, Yang B, Zhai L, Antonucci S, Buttò V, Camarero JJ, Campelo F, Čufar K, Luis M, Fajstavr M, Giovannelli A, Gričar J, Gruber A, Gryc V, Güney A, Jyske T, Kašpar J, King G, Krause C, Lemay A, Lombardi F, Castillo EMD, Morin H, Nabais C, Nöjd P, Peters RL, Prislan P, Saracino A, Shishov VV, Vavrčík H, Vieira J, Zeng Q, Rossi S.   +44 more
europepmc   +1 more source

An Energy-Balanced Heuristic for Mobile Sink Scheduling in Hybrid WSNs

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2016
Zhangbing Zhou, Chu Du, Lei Shu, G. Hancke, J. Niu, Huansheng Ning   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

ORCHESTRATING DIFFERENCE AND SIMILARITY: Black Fungibility, and the Spatial Redrawing of Racial Categories in Spanish Colonial Morocco, Sahara and Guinea

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
wiley   +1 more source

The impact of changing forest composition in Europe - longest carbon turnover time in unmanaged and broadleaved deciduous forests. [PDF]

PLoS One
Ferretto A, Anthoni P, Pugh TAM, Gregor K, Thurner M, Natel C, Wårlind D, Lindeskog M, Arneth A.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Gateways, Funnels, and Stackers: How People Hide Property Ownership Through Offshore Structures

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How do wealthy individuals use offshore financial structures like shell companies to protect personal assets? And how is such offshore wealth structuring itself variably organized? Moving beyond conceptualizations of offshore as concerning only individual tax havens, this article investigates offshore wealth structuring as a fundamentally ...
Kristin Surak, Johnathan Inkley
wiley   +1 more source