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Climate-fit.city Online Analytical Platform Needs [PDF]
, 2018 Urban areas are very vulnerable to the impacts of climate changes, because of the high concentration of people, infrastructure, and economic activity, but also because cities tend to exacerbate climate extremes such as heat waves and flash floods.
Szeligová, Natálie +3 more
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Meteorologische Zeitschrift, 2019 Large cities and urban regions are confronted with rising pressure by environmental pollution, impacts of climate change, as well as natural and health hazards. They are characterised by heterogeneous mosaics of urban structures, causing modifications of
D. Scherer +11 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
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Urban planning and climate change in Ghana
Journal of Urban Management, 2019 Urban planning is commonly blamed for its failure to exert a positive influence on managing climate change impacts in urban Africa; yet little is known about planning agencies' perspectives on climate change-urban planning conundrum, and corresponding ...
Patrick Brandful Cobbinah +3 more
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, 2014 Cities represent massive anthropogenic interventions in the planetary environment. They contribute to climate change and are affected by it. The world population increasingly lives in cities, implying the critical need for a better understanding of the ...
Mahdavi, Ardeshir
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Indoor and Built Environment, 2019 In China, urban climatic factors are seldom taken into account in urban planning and urban management due to the lack of basic data, as well as practical evaluation tool to bridge the gap between climatic data and urban planning. Under the support of the
Xilian Luo, C. Yu, Dian Zhou, Z. Gu
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How Competitive Is Myanmar's Rice Sector? A Comparison of Production Costs and Efficiency
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the cost competitiveness of rice production in Myanmar by examining production costs, cost efficiency, and the potential effect of improving cost efficiency on the country's global competitiveness. To achieve this, we conduct a comparative analysis of production costs among major rice‐producing countries and estimate the ...
Nandar Aye Chan +3 more
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Open GeosciencesThis review explores the application of local climate zones (LCZs) through various measurement methods, with a focus on mobile and in situ data collection in European urban environments.
Milica Vasić +3 more
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Adaptive Carbon Allocation by Plants Enhances the Terrestrial Carbon Sink
Scientific Reports, 2017 Carbon allocation is one of the most important physiological processes to optimize the plant growth, which exerts a strong influence on ecosystem structure and function, with potentially large implications for the global carbon budget.
Jiangzhou Xia +3 more
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Managing urban areas for insect pollinators: As town and cities continue to grow how can land managers help insect pollinators in urban areas? [PDF]
, 2015 Insect pollinators are essential for food production and wild flower reproduction yet these important insects are declining in the UK and in other regions of the world.
Baldock, Katherine +2 more
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