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Consensus‐Based Recommendations to Embrace Sustainable Luxury: A Delphi Study
ABSTRACT Integrating sustainability into luxury practices presents unique challenges. Using a two‐phase Delphi method, this study develops consensus‐based recommendations for sustainable luxury. Findings identify key priorities including traceability, fair labour, circular design, and sustainable materials as essential for aligning luxury with ethical ...
Alexia Del Greco +52 more
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Variation Characteristics of Heat Island Effect and Urban Population Development in Xi’an
Based on the comparative analysis of city and suburbs,using data of Xi’an urban heat island effect from 1959 to 2007,the introduction of sudden change analytic method and every year’s urban population of Xi’an,49 years’ seasonal changing characteristics ...
ZHANG Hong-li1 +5 more
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Urban sprawl and thermal response in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, 2000–2020
The urban heat island (UHI) environment is closely related to the daily life of residents, and the impact of UHI is further expanding in the era of rapid urbanization, which is particularly obvious in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration and ...
Hao Yuan +4 more
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This study systematically reviews the development and application of remote sensing technology in monitoring and evaluating urban heat island (UHI) effects.
Lili Zhao, Xuncheng Fan, Tao Hong
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Redefining the urban heat island
The effect of urban development on local thermal climate is ostensibly well documented in scientific literature. Since the nineteenth century, observations of “urban-rural” air temperature differences (ΔTu-r), or urban heat island magnitudes, have been reported for hundreds of cities worldwide.
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ABSTRACT Community‐based adaptation scholars and practitioners acknowledge that power asymmetries pose significant barriers to project impact. Nevertheless, there is little research on the role of the global political economy as the root cause of vulnerability.
Tom Selje, Alexandra Klepp, Boris Heinz
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National Policy Coherence Counts for Reducing Inequality in Global Climate and Development Agendas
ABSTRACT International institutions promote policy coherence as crucial to the effective and fair implementation of global sustainability agendas, though the evidence for its benefits is slim. We present here the first systematic cross‐country dataset on the consequences of national government efforts to promote policy coherence for vulnerable groups ...
Katherine Browne +10 more
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Observations of the urban heat island effect in outskirts of Venice
According to European Environment Agency. data, approximately 75 % of the European population currently live in urban areas, and by 2020 it is estimated that this figure will increase to 80 % .
F. Spinazzè +3 more
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Evaluation of Sustainable Urban Design With a Focus on Spatial Organization and Climatic Analysis
ABSTRACT The urban heat island (UHI) effect increases with the growth of cities and population. This situation triggers global climate change, and cities are negatively affected by this situation. In this study, five provinces (Antalya, Gaziantep, Bursa, Kayseri, and Erzurum) located in different climate zones in Turkey were selected as samples ...
Ahmet Salih Günaydın, Murat Yücekaya
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Urban Heat Island Gold Standard and Urban Heat Island Atlas
Györgyi Baranka +3 more
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