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LandUrbanisation has resulted in significant environmental challenges, particularly the phenomenon of urban overheating, with a significant increase in temperatures in urban environments.
Hing-Wah Chau +3 more
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Africa is recognized as the final frontier for urbanization and capitalism. Following a long wave of massive loans to promote state‐led developments, small private foreign and local developers are transforming the urban landscape on the outskirts of Luanda, forging partnerships with Angola's national and local governments and developing an ...
Higor Carvalho
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Remote SensingOne of the most significant urban challenges focuses on addressing the effects of urban overheating as a consequence of climate change. Several methods have been developed to characterize urban heat islands (UHIs); however, the most widely used involve ...
Javier Sola-Caraballo +3 more
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How vegetation mitigates urban overheating
, 2023 This work focuses on the role of vegetation in the city from a thermal point of view, aiming to understand how plants can moderate urban overheating. First, the main experimental studies and models describing the effects of vegetation on urban heat island mitigation are reviewed. We then focus on two physical phenomena that emerge from the literature -
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Chronic overheating in low carbon urban developments in a temperate climate [PDF]
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2017 Abstract Numerous studies have reported on overheating in urban contexts the majority of which have focused on the influences of external factors, such as: heat waves and climatic change. To date very little research has examined the more insidious issue of chronic year-round overheating in temperate climatic zones.
Robert S. McLeod, Michael Swainson
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Housing policies and market returns in China: Evidence from a novel policy index
Real Estate Economics, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the relationship between housing policy interventions and market returns in China with a novel policy index. Using natural language processing techniques, we construct a sentence‐level policy index based on government policy documents from 2008 to 2024.
Siu Kei Wong, Yumou Wang
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Phosphorescent-based pavements for counteracting urban overheating – A proof of concept
Solar Energy, 2020 Abstract The built environment is particularly sensitive to elevated temperatures across urban areas. Furthermore, engineered materials usually amplify surface overheating, exacerbating urban heat island and cooling energy needs. In the last decades, the scientific community introduced a new class of materials, i.e.
Ioannis Kousis +3 more
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Geographical Variation in Thermal Adaptation of the Asiatic Toad (Bufo gargarizans)
Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.Northern and southern populations of Bufo gargarizans exhibit coordinated divergence in thermal preference, resting metabolic rate, and TRPM4 temperature sensitivity along a climatic gradient. ABSTRACT Thermal adaptation in animals can manifest in multiple dimensions, yet few studies have integrated behavioral, physiological, and molecular perspectives
Longcheng Fan, Yonghua Wu
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Biometeorological Conditions During Heat Events in Polish Cities in Summer Months from 2020 to 2024
AtmosphereThis study analyzes biometeorological conditions during summer heat events in 11 cities located in different regions of Poland in the summer months from 2020 to 2024.
Małgorzata Owczarek +1 more
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Modulating Hunting Atmospheres: Mud and Material Flows Beyond the Kill
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article argues that hunting is not a bounded event but a materially redistributed atmosphere that extends beyond the kill and across field, truck, clothing, and home. Drawing on long‐term ethnographic fieldwork with wild boar hunters in Uruguay, I show how mud, odors, blood, and bodily residues carry the sensory, affective, and material ...
Juan Martin Dabezies
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