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npj Climate ActionCities and urban areas are critical to tackling climate change. Yet, existing city climate action remains uneven and insufficient to meet global targets. Scaling city climate action requires a nuanced understanding what drives the adoption and durability
Christopher J. Orr +3 more
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Advancing air quality forecasting in Abu Dhabi, UAE using time series models
Frontiers in Environmental ScienceThis research enhances air quality predictions in Abu Dhabi by employing Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) models on comprehensive air quality data collected from 2015 to 2023.
Mona S. Ramadan +2 more
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Sustainability and the City: New Kensington CDC's Sustainable 19125 Initiative [PDF]
, 2011 New Kensington Community Development Corporation (NKCDC), an organization long dedicated to revitalizing the East Kensington, Fishtown, and Port Richmond neighborhoods of Philadelphia, launched an urban sustainability initiative in 2009 called ...
Eric Hangen
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper underscores the critical role of multisectoral convergence in enhancing child health, particularly in addressing anemia, a micronutrient deficiency linked to both diet and sanitation. We explore how the integration of nationwide food and nutrition programs with sanitation initiatives impacts anemia in Indian children under three ...
Soumya Gupta, Payal Seth, Prabhu Pingali
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Urban conservation areas and sustainable development: exploring the relationship [PDF]
, 1998 With increasing emphasis being placed on concentrating development in urban areas and improving the quality of life in British cities and towns, the importance of accommodating necessary development without compromising the valued heritage and ...
Doak, Joe, Lynch, Jane
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Livestock Tango: U.S. and Latin America Dance Together, but Who Will Lead?
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the competitiveness between Latin American and U.S. livestock and meat sectors. We employ a computable general equilibrium modeling framework to evaluate two scenarios: coordinated improvements in Latin American productivity, transport efficiency, and market access (Scenario I), and the minimum productivity gains required ...
Taís C. Menezes +2 more
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Enlivening our cities: Towards urban sustainability and resilience : This article belongs to Ambio's 50th Anniversary Collection. Theme: Urbanization. [PDF]
Ambio, 2021 Kalantari Z.
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Defining best practices in sustainable urban regeneration projects [PDF]
, 2013 This paper aims at analysing three international sustainable urban regeneration projects. The analysis is based in the application of ten urban sustainability indicators from two sustainability assessment tools (Sustainable Building Tool for Urban ...
Bragança, L. +2 more
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Temperature and Farm Labor in Nigeria
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We estimate the impact of temperature shocks on the composition of farm labor in rural Nigeria using a nationally representative household panel survey. Leveraging plausibly exogenous year‐to‐year variation in growing season temperatures, we find that warmer temperatures significantly alter farm labor composition, prompting a substantial shift
Andu Berha
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Sustainability and the Urban Planning Context: Housing Development in Algeria [PDF]
, 2014 This paper describes research into the development of housing in Algeria. It focuses on the history of traditional dwellings and the importance of outdoor space located inside the building: typically in the form of a courtyard.
Gao, Yun, Mehibel, Mia, Pitts, Adrian
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