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The Hestia fossil fuel CO2 emissions data product for the Los Angeles megacity (Hestia-LA)
2019
Earth System Science Data
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</strong> High-resolution bottom-up estimation provides a detailed guide for city greenhouse gas mitigation options, offering details that can increase the economic efficiency of emissions reduction options ...
Here, we report on the latest urban area for which a Hestia estimate has been completed – the Los Angeles megacity, encompassing five counties: Los Angeles County, Orange County, Riverside County, San ...
We thank Lan Nguyan from the City of Los Angeles, Andy Alexis from the California Air Resources Board, and Cheol-Ho Lee at the Southern California Association of Governments for guidance on data use. ...
doi:10.5194/essd-11-1309-2019
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Flood risk and adaptation in Indian coastal cities: recent scenarios
2018
Applied Water Science
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in India. ...
Indian coastal cities are no exception, and it is high time to delineate these hazard-prone regions and implement proper mitigation and adaptation strategies at city scale. ...
Rohit Jigyasu, President, ICOMOS India, and members of National Scientific Committee, Risk Preparedness, ICOMOS India, for inputs. ...
doi:10.1007/s13201-018-0881-9
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Key index framework for quantitative sustainability assessment of energy infrastructures in a smart city: An example of Western Sydney
2020
Energy Conversion and Economics
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In addition, a quantitative analysis method is developed for assessing the sustainability of energy infrastructures in a smart city, which indicates how the long-term sustainability of the energy infrastructure ...
The proposed methodology can serve as a supporting tool for decision-making on new infrastructure investment and policymaking toward sustainable development. ...
This work is also supported in part by the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Digital Grid Futures Institute, UNSW, Sydney, through the Cross Disciplinary Fund Scheme. ...
doi:10.1049/enc2.12017
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Urbanity and Urbanization: An Interdisciplinary Review Combining Cultural and Physical Approaches
2014
Land
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A newly constituted assessment of urbanization and city quarter development is proposed; the assessment focuses on the conjoint analysis of mobility, "Energiewende" (energy transition), cultural drivers ...
In the early 20th century, urbanity was mainly the result of identity derived from a historical perspective in cities. ...
He contributed to all the sections, in especially to Section 3 and 4. Co-author Bianca Achilles was responsible for literature research, the preparation and writing of Section 2.1. ...
doi:10.3390/land3010105
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LOCAL CLIMATE CHANGE AND URBAN HEAT ISLAND MITIGATION TECHNIQUES – THE STATE OF THE ART
2015
Journal of Civil Engineering and Management
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In particular, developments in the field on highly reflective materials, cool and green roofs, cool pavements, urban green and of other mitigation technologies are presented in detail, while examples of ...
increased urban temperatures important research has been carried out resulting in the development of efficient mitigation technologies. the present paper aims to present the state of the art in terms ...
Cooling energy savings potential of reflective roofs for residential and commercial buildings in the united states, Energy 24(5): 391-407. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0360-5442(98)00105-4 ...
doi:10.3846/13923730.2015.1111934
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Efficacy of Possible Strategies to Mitigate the Urban Heat Island Based on Urbanized High-Resolution Land Data Assimilation System (u-HRLDAS)
2019
Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan
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However, it can provide a meaningful guideline for the urban 599 designer towards expanding the city extent. ...
for low-density residential, high-density 230 residential and commercial. ...
doi:10.2151/jmsj.2019-060
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Climate and More Sustainable Cities: Climate Information for Improved Planning and Management of Cities (Producers/Capabilities Perspective)
2010
Procedia Environmental Sciences
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These include the need for more operational urban measurement stations and networks; for an international data archive to aid translation of research findings into design tools, along with guidelines for ...
The best of modern climate-sensitive design and planning responds to concerns for energy efficiency and sustainability with "good design" [14] . ...
At high latitudes in winter, or at night in areas of low building density, transport of sensible heat towards the surface may occur at night. ...
doi:10.1016/j.proenv.2010.09.016
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Planning with urban climate in different climatic zones
2014
Geographicalia
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very high demand of energy for cooling during Summer. ...
Most of the measures referred to in a) are directed to creating more pleasant thermal conditions in continuously hot climates, but not directed towards winter low temperatures in high latitude deserts ...
doi:10.26754/ojs_geoph/geoph.201057808
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Learnings from COVID-19 Forced Lockdown on Regional Air Quality and Mitigation Potential for South Asia
2022
Aerosol and Air Quality Research
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In this context the country lockdown initiated to combat the COVID-19 pandemic (during March and April 2020 that is the pre-monsoon season) provides an unique opportunity for studying the relative impacts ...
Cities with high traffic loads reported a reduction of 12-39% in columnar NO 2 during lockdown, in-situ PM 2.5 measurements indicate a 23-56% percent reduction over the country capitals and columnar SO ...
Iqbal Mead, ICIMOD for his contributions in language editing and reviewing this manuscript. ...
doi:10.4209/aaqr.210376
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The City of São Paulo's Environmental Quota: A Policy to Embrace Urban Environmental Services and Green Infrastructure Inequalities in the Global South
2021
Frontiers in Sustainable Cities
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To overcome concepts related simply to soil sealing, the initiative gave rise to a wide range of principles associated with environmental services and the consideration that green areas in this megacity ...
rather than case-by-case studies, except in high-impact developments. ...
The authors received support from FAPESP-São Paulo Research Foundation (proc. n. 2015/03804-9), CAPES/PROEX and from CNPq-National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (proc. n. 309840/ ...
doi:10.3389/frsc.2021.685875
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China's adaptation to climate & urban climatic changes: A critical review
2018
Urban Climate
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It seeks to understand whether the proposed responses to climate change and strategies for actions on greening and air corridors for cities and urban areas are appropriate. ...
Cities in China play a key role in the implementation of the central policies and make concrete actions in response to climate change. ...
Acknowledgement An abridged version of this paper was originally orally presented as a plenary talk at the 9th International Conference of Urban Climate held in Toulouse in France on 21st July 2015. ...
doi:10.1016/j.uclim.2017.07.006
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Continents under Climate Change
2012
Norois
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Three regional climate models were used to project climate change scenarios for the IPCC A2 high emission scenario for 2071-2100. ...
Energy and transportation infrastructure and other property in coastal areas are very likely to be adversely affected. 7. ...
This scenario was designed for attempting to match the European Union target of keeping global anthropogenic warming below 2°C relative to pre-industrial level. ...
doi:10.4000/norois.4241
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The use of blue-Green infrastructure as a multifunctional approach to watersheds with socio-environmental vulnerability
2021
Blue-Green Systems
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Considering the obstacles related to implementing multifunctional solutions in developing countries, measuring its co-benefits (in addition to flood control) may influence greater public and political ...
The results obtained from the urban and environmental evaluation proved that blue and green corridors could promote multiple co-benefits for consolidated urban areas. ...
purposes as an alternative for consolidated watersheds with high popu-
lation density and low space availability. ...
doi:10.2166/bgs.2021.119
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Edge-Computing-Enabled Smart Cities: A Comprehensive Survey
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2020
arXiv
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Although edge computing is an appealing technology to compensate for stringent latency related issues, its deployment engenders new challenges. ...
Finally, several indispensable open challenges along with their causes and guidelines are discussed, serving as future research directions. ...
• A few indispensable requirements for the design of the
smart cities architectures using edge computing are pre-
sented. ...
arXiv:1909.08747v2
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SPECIAL ISSUE 4 : 2016
2016
PLANNING MALAYSIA JOURNAL
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creative work (for example Art, Design, IT Venture, Medical science). ...
ACKNOWLEDGMENT The authors would like to thank Agency Of Remote Sensing, Malaysia, for providing satellite images in the study area. ...
approach towards creating cohesive communities in residential high-rises. ...
doi:10.21837/pmjournal.v14.i4.356
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