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Bader Alaifan and Elie Azar
A net-zero energy community (NZEC) is a promising paradigm that can directly contribute to a sustainable building sector and infrastructure. This research presents a unique empirical techno-economic optimization and evaluation approach for NZEC potential...
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Cato Sandford, Chris Malins and Calliope Panoutsou
The ?low indirect land use change risk? (?low ILUC-risk?) concept was developed to assess whether crop-based biofuels would compete with other land uses and cause the expansion of agricultural land. At the core of low ILUC-risk is an ?additionality princ...
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Gaurav Soni, Rui Costa Neto and Lúcia Moreira
Similar to other industries, the maritime industry is also facing increasing restrictions on ships regarding pollution control. The research presented in this paper is aimed at studying the pros and cons of alternative fuels followed by a detailed analys...
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Ilshat Husniev, Vladimir Romanenkov, Stanislav Siptits, Vera Pavlova, Sergey Pasko, Olga Yakimenko and Pavel Krasilnikov
Arable Chernozems with high SOC contents have the potential to be significant sources of GHGs, and climate change is likely to increase SOC losses, making the issue of carbon sequestration in this region even more important. The prospect of maintaining S...
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Steven M. Ostoja, Hyeyeong Choe, James H. Thorne, Pelayo Alvarez, Amber Kerr, Jennifer Balachowski and Julian Reyes
On a global scale, rangelands occupy approximately half of the world?s land base surface; have a critical role in carbon sequestration and biodiversity; and support a diverse and critical economy, but at the same time, are under threat by many factors, i...
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Ripan Debnath, Christopher Pettit, Balamurugan Soundararaj, Sara Shirowzhan and Ajith Shamila Jayasekare
Urban growth models are increasingly being used to generate scenarios within city and regional planning support systems (PSS). However, their usefulness in land use planning applications, particularly in city resilience planning, is not fully understood....
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Bright Addae and Suzana Dragicevic
Deforestation as a land-cover change process is linked to several environmental problems including desertification, biodiversity loss, and ultimately climate change. Understanding the land-cover change process and its relation to human?environment intera...
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Dibesh Khadka, Mukand S. Babel and Ambili G. Kamalamma
Climate change (CC) and land-use change (LUC) will alter a basin?s hydrological processes and water balance. Quantifying their significance is imperative in formulating appropriate countermeasures and management plans. This study assesses projected chang...
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Dmitry V. Kovalevsky and Jürgen Scheffran
Coastal zones are experiencing rapid urbanization at unprecedented rates. At the same time, coastal cities are the most prone to climate-related vulnerability, including impacts of sea-level rise and climate-related coastal hazards under the present and ...
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Dafydd Phillips
South Korea is a signatory of the Paris Agreement and has announced its aim to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. However, South Korea?s current policy trajectory is not compatible with maintaining a global temperature rise below 2 °C. Climate change has...
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