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Comfort in the canopy: How urban treescapes affect human thermal comfort in a temperate climate
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract People living in urban centres are exposed to higher levels of heat stress than those living outside of these areas; this is intensified by the urban heat island effect. Heat stress is a concern for the more vulnerable members of society and can exacerbate many medical conditions; excessive heat increases morbidity and mortality rates.
James Parker +3 more
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Forests and woodlands are important for biodiversity, climate change mitigation and the provision of services including recreation, timber and non‐timber forest products. Land use policies currently aim to increase forest cover while also maximising the benefits of forests for people and improving community engagement with the process of ...
Sarah Greenwood +6 more
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Are Suburban Firms More Likely to Discriminate Against African Americans? [PDF]
This paper presents a test of the hypothesis that employers in suburban locations are more likely to discriminate against African Americans than are employers located in central cities.
M. A. Stoll, H. J. Holzer, S. Raphael
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Case studies of some suburban office centres in Toronto [PDF]
, 1993 vi, 123 ...
Matthew, Malcolm R.
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, 2019 Bei ihrer Veröffentlichung als revolutionär gepriesen und kontrovers diskutiert, gehört die Rent-Gap-Theorie mittlerweile zum prüfungsrelevanten Kanon jeder guten Einführung-in-die-Stadtgeographie-Vorlesung.
Nkula-Wenz, Laura
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Designing for biodiversity data in place: Species, encounters, and interfaces
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Species occurrence data, which records the presence of an organism at a point in space and time, is central to environmental science and its opening up to new forms of participation such as citizen science. Such data are increasingly aggregated and mobilised, reaching diverse audiences.
Mitchell Whitelaw +3 more
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Where did the ?new urban economics? go? [PDF]
The notion of the ?New Urban Economics? emerged in the late 1960s as more rigorous approaches were applied to what had largely hitherto been an essentially descriptive approach to analyzing urban economies.
Kenneth Button
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Angesichts der Bedeutung von internationaler Zuwanderung und Fluchtmigration für das Städtewachstum hat sich an der Schnittstelle von Stadt- und Migrationssoziologie eine Diskussion um städtische Orte entwickelt, an denen Migrant*innen ankommen, sich ...
Haase, Annegret, Pößneck, Janine
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Looking for a Suburban Urbanism?
, 2016 Recent studies have underlined the growing importance of small cities in the polarization processes in the outskirts of large metropolitan areas, and in the so-called “maturation” of periurban spaces. Some works have shown the importance of small cities as new economic central places or commercial amenities in urban outskirts.
Delebarre, Agathe, Pfirsch, Thomas
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Psychology in the Schools, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to inform the continued development and refinement of the Resilience Education Program (REP), a Tier 2 targeted intervention for students in grades 4–8 exhibiting early signs of internalizing problems. Parents (n = 7), teachers (n = 7), school mental health professionals (n = 11), and researchers (n = 6 ...
Stephen Kilgus +7 more
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