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Enhancing Urban Climate Resistance Through the Application of Selected Strategies and Technologies. [PDF]
Disc CitiesHachem-Vermette C.
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Urban Climate Insurgency: An Introduction
Social Text, 2022 Urban climate insurgency refers to the ensemble of grassroots initiatives aiming to tackle climate change from a radical point of view. Insurgency in this case does not imply violence but rather refers to the radical rejection of the current socioecological system.
Armiero, Marco +3 more
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Frontiers in Sustainability, 2021 This paper compares the carbon footprint effects of a voluntary real lab with those of the involuntary “real lab” provided by the lockdowns during the recent Corona crisis.
Fritz Reusswig +3 more
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Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2022 Climate change poses additional obstacles to poverty eradication and social justice. Rising temperatures, abnormal rainfall increases, storms, floods, and droughts have become more frequent and severe phenomena in Vietnam.
Dinh Duc Truong +3 more
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Impact of urban parameterization and integration of WUDAPT on the severe convection
Computational Urban Science, 2022 Amplified rates of urban convective systems pose a severe peril to the life and property of the inhabitants over urban regions, requiring a reliable urban weather forecasting system.
Raghu Nadimpalli +4 more
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Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2022 Agriculture is a sector with a long tradition and an important contribution to economic growth in Vietnam, providing food security and generating revenue for the country's exports. However, agricultural activities in Vietnam are significantly affected by
Dinh Duc Truong +2 more
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Urban Climates and Climate Change [PDF]
Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 2020 Cities are particularly vulnerable to extreme weather episodes, which are expected to increase with climate change. Cities also influence their own local climate, for example, through the relative warming known as the urban heat island (UHI) effect. This review discusses urban climate features (even in complex terrain) and processes.
Masson, Valéry +3 more
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"It never rains in California": constructions of drought as a natural and social phenomenon [PDF]
, 2020 In response to suggestions that, in the West, inaction on climate change is due to climate change’s perceived temporal and spatial distance, we examine how people in California responded to the local influence of climate change in relation to the ...
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Beyond bans: A political economy of used vehicle dependency in Africa
Journal of Transport and Land Use, 2022 African countries serve as used vehicle dumping sites for advanced capitalist countries, undermining global and local goals to move toward safe and low-emissions transport.
Festival Godwin Boateng +1 more
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Heat risk assessment for the Brussels capital region under different urban planning and greenhouse gas emission scenarios [PDF]
, 2019 Urban residents are exposed to higher levels of heat stress in comparison to the rural population. As this phenomenon could be enhanced by both global greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and urban expansion, urban planners and policymakers should integrate ...
Demuzere, Matthias +4 more
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