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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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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.
A. Wardekker
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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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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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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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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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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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Computational 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
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Barriers and Enablers for Integrating Public Health Cobenefits in Urban Climate Policy.
Annual 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
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The politics of urban climate futures: Lessons from urban agriculture
, 2023 Taken together, this volume constitutes a systematic mapping, exploration, and interrogation of the nature of agency and empowerment in urban climate politics and action.
van der Heijden, Jeroen +2 more
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