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The South African Adventure Tourism Economy: An urban phenomenon

Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series, 2017
The international adventure tourism literature is remarkably silent on the geographical nature of the industry. This study seeks to provide a geographical analysis of the sector within the context of South Africa.
McKay Tracey
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Energy consumption performance using natural ventilation in dwelling design and CFD simulation in a hot dry climate: A case study in Sudan

Frontiers in Built Environment, 2023
Introduction: Sudan is taking proactive steps towards environmental sustainability, including initiatives to improve energy efficiency and reduce costs in a hot, dry climate.
Zeinab A. Elhassan
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Enriching Cultural Heritage through the Integration of Art and Digital Technologies

Social Sciences, 2023
Digital technologies are reshaping traditional static urban typologies, as the museum, urging a rethinking of how Cultural Heritage (CH) is experienced. The work presents the PALIMPSEST Project, an Interreg V-A Greece–Italy funded project, which proposes
Polyxeni Mantzou, Xenofon Bitsikas, Anastasios Floros   +2 more
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Spatial Distribution, Contamination Levels, and Health Risk Assessment of Potentially Toxic Elements in Household Dust in Cairo City, Egypt

Toxics, 2022
Urban areas’ pollution, which is owing to rapid urbanization and industrialization, is one of the most critical issues in densely populated cities such as Cairo. The concentrations and the spatial distribution of fourteen potentially toxic elements (PTEs)
Ahmed Gad, Ahmed Saleh, Hassan I. Farhat, Yehia H. Dawood, Sahar M. Abd El Bakey   +4 more
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Urban policies and the creation of healthy urban environments: A review of government housing and transport policy documents in the United Kingdom [PDF]

, 2023
Urban environments are key health determinants and play a critical role in improving health outcomes and equity. However, urban policies in the United Kingdom (UK) and globally frequently fail to produce healthy towns and cities.
Bates, G, Krista Bondy, Bondy, Krista, Geoff Bates, Hasan, Md Nazmul, Barnfield, Andrew, Md Nazmul Hasan, Hasan, MN, Andrew Barnfield, Bates, Geoff, Barnfield, A, Bondy, K   +11 more
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Editorial

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In Städten lebt ein Großteil der Menschheit. Das bedeutet im Umkehrschluss, dass auch vorrangig dort gestorben wird. Als symbolisch aufgeladener und zugleich selbstverständlicher Teil von Gesellschaft schreibt sich das Sterben unweigerlich in das ...
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Annual Report 2020

, 2021
In 2020, the Kinder Institute for Urban Research celebrated its 10th anniversary. COVID-19 and a renewed concern over racial injustice would dominate the year, and the institute pivoted its research and events in ...
Kinder Institute for Urban Research, Rougeau, Rose   +1 more
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Sensitivity of ozone production to VOC and NOx emissions — A case study with the box-model BAYROZON

Meteorologische Zeitschrift, 1997
A box-model for the prognosis of tropospheric ozone is used to assess the sensitivity of simulated peak ozone concentrations to local VOC and NOx emissions. Distinction is made between biogenic and anthropogenic emissions.
Stefan Emeis, Thomas Schoenemeyer, Klaus Richter, Walter Ruckdeschel   +3 more
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Rural-Urban versus Urban-Rural

Materia Arquitectura, 2010
Chinese cities are semi-cities with two faces, a rural and an urban one. A place in the center of the city. At the same time, there is an urban quality within a totally green landscape. All cities are in fact in a situation of in-between.
Xu Yixing, Xue Shanshan
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Pollution Indexing and Health Risk Assessment of Heavy-Metals-Laden Indoor and Outdoor Dust in Elementary School Environments in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Atmosphere, 2022
The prevalence of potentially toxic heavy metals (HMs)-bearing dust in the environment is posing serious health risks to humans. Therefore, the occurrence of HMs in indoor and outdoor dust samples of elementary school’s environment in Riyadh, Saudi ...
Modhi O. Alotaibi, Lamia A. Albedair, Nahaa M. Alotaibi, Mudawi M. Elobeid, Hamed A. Al-Swadi, Zafer Alasmary, Munir Ahmad   +6 more
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