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Barbara Cardone, Valeria D?Ambrosio, Ferdinando Di Martino and Vittorio Miraglia
One of the issues of greatest interest in urban planning today concerns the evaluation of the most vulnerable urban areas in the presence of different types of climate hazards. In this research, a hierarchical fuzzy MCDA model is implemented on a GIS-bas...
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Anestis Kousis and Christos Tjortjis
In recent years, the emergence of the smart city concept has garnered attention as a promising innovation aimed at addressing the multifactorial challenges arising from the concurrent trends of urban population growth and the climate crisis. In this stud...
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Munir Bhatti, Amanjot Singh, Edward McBean, Sadharsh Vijayakumar, Alex Fitzgerald, Jan Siwierski and Lorna Murison
Cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green algae, are photosynthetic bacteria that play a crucial role in aquatic ecosystems and are susceptible to changes in temperature. Hence, as global temperatures rise due to climate change, some Cyanobacterial species...
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Shubhankar Sengupta, Dmitry V. Kovalevsky, Laurens M. Bouwer and Jürgen Scheffran
Coastal flood risk and sea-level rise require decisions on investment in coastal protection and, in some cases, the relocation of urban areas. Models that formalize the relations between flooding costs, protective investments, and relocation can improve ...
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Gemma García-Blanco, Daniel Navarro and Efren Feliu
The paper exposes the experience of València in applying climate-resilient thinking to the current revision of the city?s General Urban Development Plan. A semi-quantitative, indicator-based risk assessment of heat stress was carried out on the 23 functi...
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Bernhard Jonathan Sattler, John Friesen, Andrea Tundis and Peter F. Pelz
Current challenges, such as climate change or military conflicts, show the great importance of urban supply infrastructures. In this context, an open question is how different scenarios and crises can be studied in silico to assess the interaction betwee...
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Eleni-Ioanna Koutsovili, Ourania Tzoraki, Nicolaos Theodossiou and George E. Tsekouras
The occurrence of flash floods in urban catchments within the Mediterranean climate zone has witnessed a substantial rise due to climate change, underscoring the urgent need for early-warning systems. This paper examines the implementation of an early fl...
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Ganeshchandra Mallya, Mohamed M. Hantush and Rao S. Govindaraju
Effective water quality management and reliable environmental modeling depend on the availability, size, and quality of water quality (WQ) data. Observed stream water quality data are usually sparse in both time and space. Reconstruction of water quality...
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Jiawei Lin, Dongying Li and Robert D. Brown
Global climate change and urban heat island intensification are making many cities dangerously hot during heat waves. There is a need for a clear process for applying microclimate information in urban design to create cooler cities. A recent paper points...
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Rajaa Aitali, Maria Snoussi, Alexander S. Kolker, Bouchra Oujidi and Nadia Mhammdi
Healthy wetlands are among the most effective sinks for carbon on the planet, and thus contribute to mitigate climate change. However, in North Africa, coastal wetlands are under high pressure especially from urban sprawl and tourism development, due to ...
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