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A statistical approach for estimating mean maximum urban temperature excess. [PDF]
, 2003 Munkánkban a városi hősziget (UHI) maximális napi kifejlődését vizsgáltuk Szegeden, a beépítettségi paraméterek függvényében. A hőmérsékleti adatok valamint a beépítettségi arány, a vízfelszín-arány, az égbolt láthatósági index és az épületmagasság ...
Bottyán, Zsolt +3 more
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Greens in Regulation: Biodiversity Strategy Implementation Across the Golf Industry
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Although much of the business and biodiversity literature focuses on extractive industries, we turn our attention to the golf industry. Golf courses occupy millions of acres globally, yet biodiversity strategy implementation across the golf industry remains understudied.
Jordan P. Howell, Jordan Moore
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Intra-urban relationship between surface geometry and urban heat island: review and new approach [PDF]
, 2004 This paper provides a comprehensive review of the intra-urban sky view factor (SVF)–temperature relationship. A new approach to reveal the real connection between SVF and air temperature in an entire city is presented.
Unger, János
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Sustainable FuturesCurrently, major cities globally are universally and actively implementing strategies for the polycentric development of urban spatial structures. However, the impacts of this strategy on the ecological environment and residents' lives require further ...
Cheng Wang +7 more
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Optimizing the spatial pattern of the cold island to mitigate the urban heat island effect
Ecological Indicators, 2023 Numerous studies on reducing the urban heat island effect have concentrated on isolated cold islands, analyzing their cooling impact in terms of size and shape. From an international perspective, studies have shown that enhancing the connectivity of cold
Jiang Qiu, Xiaoyu Li, Wenqi Qian
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Why Some Firms Perceive Climate Risks and Others Do Not—Evidence From the Logistics Sector
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study explores how companies perceive risks stemming from climate change as a gradual process, focusing on the logistics sector. It advances research on organizational climate risk perception by integrating perspectives on embeddedness and resource configurations. Based on 41 semi‐structured interviews with representatives of 22 logistics
Felix Bücken, Martin Franz
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Urban heat island classification through alternative normalized difference vegetation index [PDF]
Global Journal of Environmental Science and ManagementBACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Urban heat island is characterized by higher temperatures in urban areas compared to their surroundings. Vegetation, quantified by the normalized difference vegetation index, is key in mitigating urban heat island effects and ...
N. Chanpichaigosol +2 more
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Variations microclimatiques et effet de la végétation dans la ville aride de Ghardaïa, Algérie
VertigO, 2022 Characterizing urban climate in hot arid cities is a key step to understand the interactions of climatic variables with the built-up and the vegetation.
Rachid Amieur +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Chief executive officers (CEOs) play a pivotal role in shaping public discourse on climate change through social media, yet how their language use affects the effectiveness of climate‐related posts remains unclear. Drawing on schema‐congruity theory and leader role expectations, we conceptualize certainty in language as congruent and anxiety ...
Ellen Weber +4 more
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LandWith the acceleration of urbanization, the high density and intensity of urban construction and expansion have led to an exacerbation of the urban heat island (UHI) effect, which, in turn, contributes to global climate warming and severely impacts urban ...
Yuexia Han +5 more
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