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Balancing conflicting mitigation and adaptation behaviours of urban residents under climate change and the urban heat island effect. [PDF]

Sustain Cities Soc, 2021
Kondo K, Mabon L, Bi Y, Chen Y, Hayabuchi Y.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

National Policy Coherence Counts for Reducing Inequality in Global Climate and Development Agendas

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
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, Adis Dzebo, Zoha Shawoo, Mario Cardenas, Pierrick Chalaye, Alexia Faus Onbargi, Cassilde Muhoza, Patricia Nicdao, Nokwethaba Makhanya, Navam Niles, Priyatma Singh   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation of Sustainable Urban Design With a Focus on Spatial Organization and Climatic Analysis

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Study of seasonal variations of heat islands in Isfahan County using processing of MODIS and TIRS sensor images [PDF]

علوم زمین خوارزمی
The Urban Heat Island (UHI) phenomenon, a significant outcome of urbanization and industrialization, leads to elevated land surface temperatures in urban areas compared to their surroundings.
Mina Jireh Nezhadian, Meisam Rastegari Mehr, Ata Shakeri   +2 more
doaj  

Resilience and Sustainability Through Interlinkages of Gender, Disaster, and Climate Change: A Systematic Literature Review

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This systematic literature review examines gendered vulnerabilities, adaptive capacities, and policy translation in climate‐change induced disaster research using an intersectional lens in the Web of Science Database. Peer‐reviewed journal articles published in English between 2014 and 2024 focusing on gender, climate change, and disaster were
Tomo Kawane, Jebin Sultana Ahmed, Manman Wang, Divya Suresh, Naomi Kato, Weiwei Wang, Chuhan Wang, Rajib Shaw   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Urban Heat Island Effect and Mitigation

Rapid urbanization and industrialization have significantly transformed natural landscapes into densely builtenvironments characterized by concrete structures, asphalt pavements, reduced vegetation, and increasedanthropogenic heat generation. These changes have contributed to the development of the Urban Heat Island(UHI) effect, where urban areas ...
openaire   +2 more sources

What Does It Take? A Cross‐National Study Exploring Drivers for Willingness to Engage in Effortful Climate Action

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While much is known about what drives general participation in climate action, less is known about the drivers of actions that are explicitly linked to time, resource, or convenience constraints (i.e., effortful climate action). Understanding what drives effortful climate action is important to effectively tackle climate change, as many high ...
Carola Garrecht, Nina Christenson, Niklas Gericke, Jesper Haglund, Jari Appelgren, Ute Harms   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Thermal Environment Characteristics of Local Climate Zones Based on Summer Stage Subdivision: An Observational Study in Shenyang, China

Land
Global warming and urbanization have exacerbated the urban heat island (UHI) effect, threatening human settlements and public health. Existing studies have primarily focused on analyzing urban thermal environment characteristics throughout the year or in
Zheming Liu, Xinyu Liu, Tianyu Xi, Jiawei Chen, Nuannuan Yang, Haibo Sun   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Sustainability of Robusta Coffee Under Global Change—A Review

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This contribution reviews the scientific evidence concerning climate resiliency claims as well as sustainability issues for robusta coffee (Coffea canephora), focusing on: climate change analyses, climate parameters, soil water, and farming inputs, especially irrigation and synthetic fertilizer use.
Aaron P. Davis, Akshay Dashrath, Justin Moat   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reducing the Urban Heat Island Effect In Copenhagen

, 2013
The urban heat Island effect is a well-known phenomenon that has been documented and studied in many urban areas. Put simply, an urban heat island effect occurs when a city is generally warmer than its surrounding hinterland, which tends to be less ...
Alskog, Erik
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