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Dinh Manh Nguyen , Grace Ding, Göran Runeson
Over many decades, buildings have been recognised as a significant area contributing to the negative impacts on the environment over their lifecycle, accelerating climate change. In return, climate change also impacts on buildings with extreme heatwaves ...
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Samar Almaaroufi, Kathrin Golda-Pongratz, Franco Jauregui-Fung, Sara Pereira, Natalia Pulido-Castro and Jeffrey Kenworthy
Lima has become the first Peruvian megacity with more than 10 million people, resulting from the migration waves from the countryside throughout the 20th century, which have also contributed to the diverse ethnic background of today?s city. The paper ana...
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Qingfeng Miao, Haibin Shi, José M. Gonçalves and Luis S. Pereira
The sustainability of the Hetao Irrigation System, located in the water scarce upper Yellow River basin, is a priority considering the need for water saving, increased water productivity, and higher farmers? incomes. The upgrading of basin irrigation, th...
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Steven G. Pueppke, Qingling Zhang and Sabir T. Nurtazin
Central Asia?s Ili River is fed by mountain streams that flow down into an isolated and arid basin that today is shared by Kazakhstan and China. Agriculture in the basin is dependent upon irrigation, which was practiced as long ago as the Iron Age, when ...
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Shih-Heng Yu, Yu Gao and Yih-Chearng Shiue
Sustainability consists of economic, environmental, and societal aspects. Concomitant with China?s rapid growth, the evaluation of China?s ability for sustainable development (SD) has become a topic of interest. Unlike previous studies that are based on ...
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