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Inventory of Vegetation and Assessment of Carbon Storage Capacity towards a Low Carbon Campus: a Case Study of Universiti Tun Husein Onn Malaysia, Johor Malaysia [PDF]
, 2018 Carbon dioxide, a vital greenhouse gas plays a key role in Earth's carbon cycle, a concentration above ambient temperature results in global warming. High CO2 emission in Universiti Tun Husein Onn Malaysia is due to an increase in a number of automobiles
Linatoc, Alona, Yunusa, Audu
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Counting Brazil’s Urban Trees Will Help Make Brazil’s Urban Trees Count [PDF]
Journal of Forestry, 2018 Fabio Angeoletto +2 more
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Fault tree analysis for urban flooding
Water Science and Technology, 2009 Traditional methods to evaluate flood risk generally focus on heavy storm events as the principal cause of flooding. Conversely, fault tree analysis is a technique that aims at modelling all potential causes of flooding. It quantifies both overall flood probability and relative contributions of individual causes of flooding. This paper presents a fault
Ten Veldhuis, J.A.E. (author) +2 more
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Communications Earth & EnvironmentUrban planners and other stakeholders often view trees as the ultimate panacea for mitigating urban heat stress; however, their cooling efficacy varies globally and is influenced by three primary factors: tree traits, urban morphology, and climate ...
Haiwei Li +5 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Private supplementary education is burgeoning worldwide, and over 25% of English children have received private tutoring. The neoliberalisation of education and parents' responsibilisation for children's attainment have driven market growth, but not all can afford to participate.
Sarah L. Holloway +2 more
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Hazard-rating assessment of roadside trees at UPM using geospatial tool. [PDF]
, 2011 Roadside trees provide benefits in the form of green landscape, human health, storm-water management, carbon storage and etc. However, they are potentially hazardous to their surroundings. Hence, there is a need to evaluate these trees as to whether they
Abdul Malek , Ismail Adnan +4 more
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Cooling Effect of Urban Trees on the Built Environment of Contiguous United States
Earth's Future, 2018 Exacerbated heat stress has resulted in a series of environmental issues in urban areas. Mounting empirical evidence shows that urban trees are effective in mitigating the thermal stress in the built environment, whereas large‐scale numerical simulations
Chenghao Wang +2 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Dialogic teaching has been shown to be beneficial for students' learning and achievement. However, few studies have investigated how dialogic teaching may foster students' creative thinking in the classroom. This study examined the sequential patterns of classroom dialogue associated with students' creative thinking.
Yang Tao, Deliang Wang, Gaowei Chen
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The estimation of economic benefits of urban trees using contingent valuation method in Tasik Perdana, Kuala Lumpur [PDF]
, 2013 Urban trees provide a multitude of tangible and intangible services which include provisionary, regulatory, as well as cultural and support services to the community. Unfortunately, to set a monetary value on these said services is challenging to say the
Abd. Ghani, Awang Noor +2 more
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Urban trees facilitate the establishment of non-native forest insects
NeoBiota, 2019 Cities, due to the presence of ports and airports and the high diversity of trees in streets, parks, and gardens, may play an important role for the introduction of invasive forest pests.
M. Branco +5 more
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