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Integrating Solar Energy in Urban Development: Strategies for Sustainable and Smart Cities

open access: yesInternational Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.
The increasing pace of urbanization has intensified the global demand for clean and decentralized energy systems, placing solar energy at the forefront of sustainable urban transitions. While prior studies have separately explored photovoltaic (PV) technologies, urban form, or energy policy frameworks, few have synthesized these dimensions into an ...
Humberto Garcia Castellanos   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding the Impact of Thermal Performance on Thermal Comfort in Dwellings: A Large‐Sample Study With a Homogeneous User Profile

open access: yesIndoor Air, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.
Initiatives abound for improving energy efficiency in existing dwellings stock, yet the impact in their indoor thermal comfort conditions, postretrofit performance, and comfort levels are insufficiently explored. Studies that evaluate this parameter, enabling the validation or adjustment of current policies of retrofit actions, would be essential. Thus,
Beatriz Montalbán Pozas   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cartography, landscape and territory [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The word landscape is fashionable. It has become thoroughly modern and triggers heated debates on concepts like territory and map. But the most decisive impetus to “canonise” the predominant word and concept of landscape has come from laws, which refer ...
Rosselló i Verger, Vicenç M.
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High‐resolution dataset of nocturnal air temperatures in Bern, Switzerland (2007–2022)

open access: yesGeoscience Data Journal, Volume 11, Issue 4, Page 623-637, October 2024.
We present a high‐resolution dataset covering the mean air temperatures of every night in the summers of 2007–2022 in a medium‐sized city in Europe. The dataset is conducted using a land use regression approach that follows the principles of open data and low costs.
Moritz Burger   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis and evaluation of the usefulness of open data for research projects—The case of the BrineRIS project

open access: yesGeoscience Data Journal, Volume 11, Issue 4, Page 948-973, October 2024.
Methodology for the open data acquisition in the BrineRIS project. Abstract Open research data refer to publicly available scientific information that can be accessed free of charge, usually provided by public data sources. Users must comply with specific requirements set by the institutions providing the data and always acknowledge the source of the ...
Justyna Górniak‐Zimroz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Smart cities' developmental capacities in the fields of spatial planning and construction - lessons from Copenhagen to Belgrade [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
This paper focuses on smart cities’ capacities to improve quality of public services and decision making in all policy fields, with open data and co-production.
Djordjevic, Snezana
core   +1 more source

Systematic Review of Air Pollution in Morocco: Status, Impacts, and Future Directions

open access: yesAdvanced Sustainable Systems, Volume 8, Issue 9, September 2024.
This systematic review provides a comprehensive overview of air pollution in Morocco, emphasizing road traffic and industrial activities as primary contributors. Exposure to pollutants leads to adverse health effects, varying across cities. The review highlights the need for further research on health and economic impacts, improved modeling, and a ...
Imane Sekmoudi   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Monitoring spatial sustainable development: Semi-automated analysis of satellite and aerial images for energy transition and sustainability indicators

open access: yes, 2018
Solar panels are installed by a large and growing number of households due to the convenience of having cheap and renewable energy to power house appliances.
Bromuri, Stefano   +9 more
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Socio-economic impact of photovoltaic park: The Giurgiu County rural area, Romania [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The paper aims to analyse the socio-economic territorial impact of photovoltaic parks in the rural area of Giurgiu County. The analysis valorises two types of data: the statistical information on the local socio-economic features provided by the National
Mitrică, Bianca   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

Relevance of Soil Heavy Metal XRF Screening for Quality and Landscaping of Public Playgrounds. [PDF]

open access: yesToxics, 2023
Răcușan Ghircoiaș O   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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