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Transitioning From Urban Climate Action to Climate Equity

open access: yesJournal of the American Planning Association, 2022
Problem, research strategy, and findings Historically, urban climate action plans have not focused on residents who are most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change: neighborhoods of people of color and low-income communities, also known as frontline
J. Fitzgerald
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Urban Climate Informatics: An Emerging Research Field

open access: yesFrontiers in Environmental Science, 2022
The scientific field of urban climatology has long investigated the two-way interactions between cities and their overlying atmosphere through in-situ observations and climate simulations at various scales.
Ariane Middel   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Nature-Based Solutions Tools for Planning Urban Climate Adaptation: State of the Art

open access: yesSustainability, 2021
Despite the recognized potential of nature-based solutions (NBSs) to support climate adaptation, there are still wide barriers for a wider uptake of such NBS in urban areas.
Ilse M. Voskamp   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Towards a Science of Scaling for Urban Climate Action and Governance

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Risk Regulation, 2022
The scaling of urban climate action and its governance is rapidly becoming a central focus in the urban climate governance literature and policy debates.
J. van der Heijden
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Resilience of human settlements to climate change needs the convergence of urban planning and urban climate science

open access: yesComputational Urban Science, 2022
The impact of climate extremes upon human settlements is expected to accelerate. There are distinct global trends for a continued rise in urban dwellers and associated infrastructure.
Xinyue Ye, D. Niyogi
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Polycentric urban climate governance: Creating synergies between integrative and interactive governance in Oslo

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, 2021
Cities have emerged as important agents and sites in climate governance interventions, experimentations and networks. Drawing upon two strains of climate governance and collaborative governance literature, respectively, this article adopts a polycentric ...
Trond Vedeld   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Barriers and Enablers for Integrating Public Health Cobenefits in Urban Climate Policy.

open access: yesAnnual Review of Public Health, 2021
Urban climate policy offers a significant opportunity to promote improved public health. The evidence around climate and health cobenefits is growing but has yet to translate into widespread integrated policies.
M. Negev   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Time-resolved characteristics and production pathways of simulated landfilling N2O emission under different oxygen concentrations

open access: yesEnvironment International, 2021
Nitrous oxide (N2O), an important greenhouse gas, is emitted from landfill reservoirs, especially in the working face, where nitrification and denitrification occur under different O2 concentrations. In order to explore the effects of O2 concentration on
Chengliang Zhang   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Urban energy exchanges monitoring from space [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
One important challenge facing the urbanization and global environmental change community is to understand the relation between urban form, energy use and carbon emissions.
AJ Arnfield   +38 more
core   +4 more sources

A climate resilience research renewal agenda: learning lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for urban climate resilience

open access: yesClimate and Development, 2021
Learning lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic opens an opportunity for enhanced research and action on inclusive urban resilience to climate change. Lessons and their implications are used to describe a climate resilience research renewal agenda. Three key
M. Pelling   +10 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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