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Heatwave Characteristics and Trends Across Eight Japanese Cities

open access: yesInternational Journal of Climatology, EarlyView.
Heatwaves occur with high likelihood across Japan. Strong north–south contrasts exist in heatwave characteristics. Southern locations experience more frequent, longer, and more intense heatwaves. Since 1955 there has been an increase in heatwave frequency, duration, and cumulative heat, particularly for nocturnal heatwaves. ABSTRACT This study provides
Glenn McGregor, Asuka Suzuki‐Parker
wiley   +1 more source

Tourism Development Strategies in the Context of Coast, Culture and Agriculture-Büyükmenderes Basin [PDF]

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Turkey, during nearly in a hundred years of development period have lived a process where population and income in rural areas have decreased but on the contrary urban and coastal areas have developed.
Ayşe Nur Ãâkten   +3 more
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Rediscovering cultural tourism: cultural regeneration in seaside towns [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
British seaside towns have been subject to numerous attempts at regeneration and rebranding since the collapse of traditional seaside tourism began in the late 1970s.
Kennell, James
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Tropical Cyclone Rainfall Spatial Asymmetries in the Lesser Antilles

open access: yesInternational Journal of Climatology, EarlyView.
Rainfall is not proportional to the Saffir‐Simpson wind‐based categories. Lower category tropical cyclones (TS, H1, H2 and H3) can generate more intense rainfall than H4 and H5. Rainfall is asymmetric; as a tropical cyclone intensifies or weakens, the location of peak rainfall shifts.
Catherine Nabukulu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Charting the Evolution of Open Data Business Models: Insights From a Systematic Review and Thematic Analysis of a Decade

open access: yesStrategic Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article presents a decade of research on Open Data Business Models (ODBM), aiming to identify conceptual gaps, categorize thematic trends, and propose an integrative framework. This paper, based on a systematic literature review (SLR) of 60 peer‐reviewed studies, develops a coherent framework that explains how ODBMs are formed, adapted ...
Saeed Rouhani   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Small Business Performance in Urban Tourism [PDF]

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Research findings indicate that the successful performance of small businesses is an important determinant of regional development. Successful business performance is affected by a number of firm-specific factors including human and social capital ...
Anastasia Petrou, Irene Daskalopoulou
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City branding and urban tourism: a case study of Seoul and Taipei [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
City Branding has become a contemporary design practice of local government for promoting tourism in recent years. Its application, largely through urban tourism marketing, to the definition and communication of the characteristics of locations ...
Young, Yu Eun
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Land Use Transformation and Climate Resilience in Smart Cities: Role of ICT in Modern Urban Planning

open access: yesLand Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Modern urban planning is experiencing a transition from traditional planning to the integration of information technology, which defines the concept of a “smart city”. The study analyses the evolution of urban planning practices with an emphasis on the role of engineering and architecture in the process of urbanization, the transition to the ...
Dariusz Cichoń
wiley   +1 more source

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