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Learning to ‘be’ an activist: Exploring the relationship between activism and informal education in a youth activism group case study

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Young people in the United States (and beyond) access spaces for activism in varied ways, including the out‐of‐school time sector, where youth activism (YA) groups draw on informal learning pedagogies to engage young people in collective action.
Laura Weiner
wiley   +1 more source

Between public service and market: Portraying the bifront university in a platformized world

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper contributes to the international debate on the changes affecting recruitment and orientation processes toward higher education. Based on qualitative research involving 19 Italian public universities, the study analyses the transformations in communication, recruitment and orientation activities within platformization and increasing ...
Marco Pitzalis   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prevalence, genetic diversity and eco-epidemiology of pathogenic Leptospira species in small mammal communities in urban parks Lyon city, France. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS One
Garcia-Lopez M   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Olympic Urban Park

open access: yesПроект Байкал, 2012
openaire   +1 more source

A Framework for Urban Parks

Landscape Journal, 2022
Parks play a critical role in the health and well-being of people in urban environments. Recent events such as the COVID-19 pandemic have underscored the importance of public parks, particularly in cities.
Jessica Fernandez   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

The influence of local background climate on the dominant factors and threshold-size of the cooling effect of urban parks.

Science of the Total Environment, 2022
Urban parks can mitigate the urban heat island (UHI) by creating microclimates that lower in temperature than their surroundings, which are known as park cooling effect (PCE).
X. Geng   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

How can urban parks be planned to maximize cooling effect in hot extremes? Linking maximum and accumulative perspectives.

Journal of Environmental Management, 2022
How to maximize the cooling effect of urban parks in hot extremes has been closely linked to well-beings of citizens. Few studies have quantified urban parks' cooling effect in hot extremes from both maximum and accumulative perspectives.
Chunlei Du   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

How to quantify the cooling effect of urban parks? Linking maximum and accumulation perspectives

, 2021
Urban parks can significantly alleviate the urban heat island, an ecological issue caused by urbanization. Clarifying urban park cooling effect can improve climate change adaptability and urban sustainability.
Jian Peng   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The value of doing nothing – How informal green spaces can provide comparable ecosystem services to cultivated urban parks

Ecosystem Services, 2021
Urban green spaces have been widely recognized for their ecosystem services (ES) provisioning, but their resources are insufficient. Informal green spaces (IGS), the neglected areas whose maintenance was abandoned, can complement existing greenery ...
P. Sikorski   +14 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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