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Can boarding schools help looked after and vulnerable children improve academic attainment?

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The education of children in statutory care, or at the edge of care, is a serious concern for governments and policymakers. How to promote educational opportunities for these children can involve challenging and often contentious proposals. In this paper, we study one proposal put into practice in England: the provision to children who are in ...
David Murphy, Gianni De Fraja, Mike Adkins   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Urban Geometry Optimization to Mitigate Climate Change: Towards Energy-Efficient Buildings [PDF]

, 2020
Hatem Mahmoud, Ayman Ragab
openalex   +1 more source

City-descriptive input data for urban climate models: Model requirements, data sources and challenges

Urban Climate, 2020
V. Masson, W. Heldens, E. Bocher, Marion Bonhomme, B. Bucher, C. Burmeister, Cécile de Munck, T. Esch, J. Hidalgo, Farah Kanani-Sühring, Y. Kwok, A. Lemonsu, J. Lévy, B. Maronga, D. Pavlik, Gwendall Petit, L. See, Robert Schoetter, Nathalie Tornay, Athanasios Votsis, J. Zeidler   +20 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Positioning teachers in climate change education: Insights from a Hong Kong Global South perspective

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines how prospective teachers in Hong Kong (N = 13) position themselves within climate change education through ‘Global Dialogue for Climate Change Education’, a cross‐institutional teacher education programme facilitating online global dialogues between Hong Kong and the UK.
Sally Wai‐Yan Wan, Suzannie Kit‐Ying Leung, Janet Orchard, Jenny Wanyi Li, Elim Sein‐Yue Hui, Angus Cheng   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

A structured dataset of urban climate actions in European cities. [PDF]

Data Brief
Ben Rjiba I, Tóth-Nagy G, Rostási Á, Gyurácz-Németh P, Sebestyén V.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

URBAN INDIA AND CLIMATE CHANGE: MITIGATION STRATEGIES TOWARDS INCLUSIVE GROWTH [PDF]

Climate change has been emerged as a major challenge for the sustainable human settlement. The recent studies have established scientific evidences for climate change.
Mack Joong CHOI, Sohail AHMAD
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Energy Consumption and Outdoor Thermal Comfort Characteristics in High-Density Urban Areas Based on Local Climate Zone—A Case Study of Changsha, China [PDF]

Yaping Chen, Wang Chun, Yinze Hu
openalex   +1 more source

Two decades of urban climate research: a review of turbulence, exchanges of energy and water, and the urban heat island

, 2003
A. Arnfield
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Youth activism in Poland: Perceptions, participation and diverging perspectives from young people and activists

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent years have seen a growing scholarly interest in youth activism (YA), a phenomenon often viewed as a positive development in response to declining civic and political engagement among young people. However, most of the research focuses on the activists themselves and gives less attention to how YA is perceived by the broader youth ...
Martyna Elerian, Miri Yemini, Katarzyna Jasikowska   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Conventional approaches to indicators and metrics undermine urban climate adaptation. [PDF]

NPJ Urban Sustain
Olazabal M, Mansur AV, Sahay S, Helmke-Long L, Granceri Bradaschia M, Villaverde A, Garmendia L, Dacosta Aboagye P, Sharifi A, Asamoah O, Mwangi P, Lewis W, Izaola B, Murtagh E, Feldman I.   +14 more
europepmc   +1 more source