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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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Environment 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
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Contrasting the framing of urban climate resilience
Sustainable cities and society, 2021 Cities worldwide face climate change and other complex challenges and strive to become more resilient to the shocks and stresses that these bring. The notion of urban (climate) resilience has become highly popular in both research and practice.
Arjan Wardekker
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Precipitation response to climate change and urban development over the continental United States
Environmental Research Letters, 2021 Appropriately characterizing future changes in regional-scale precipitation requires assessment of the interactive effect owing to greenhouse gas-induced climate change and the physical growth of the built environment.
M Georgescu +4 more
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Nature-Based Solutions Tools for Planning Urban Climate Adaptation: State of the Art
Sustainability, 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
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Soil moisture dominates dryness stress on ecosystem production globally
Nature Communications, 2020 Dryness stresses vegetation and can lead to declines in productivity, increased emission of carbon, and plant mortality, but the drivers of this stress remain unclear. Here the authors show that soil moisture plays a dominant role relative to atmospheric
Laibao Liu +5 more
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Environmental 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
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Towards a Science of Scaling for Urban Climate Action and Governance
European 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
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Urban Climate, 2020 Cities are particularly vulnerable to meteorological hazards because of the concentration of population, goods, capital stock and infrastructure. Urban climate services require multi-disciplinary and multi-sectorial approaches and new paradigms in urban ...
V. Masson +20 more
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Journal of Environmental ManagementThe interplay between climate change and socio-economic activities has placed cities at the forefront of climate-related threats. Evaluating and enhancing urban climate resilience are widely regarded as effective strategies for mitigating and adapting to
Ran Yi, Yanan Chen, An Chen
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