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Keshav Bhattarai and Ambika P. Adhikari
This paper responds to the research question, ?can urban farming in Nepal help create sustainable cities?? Especially after the COVID-19 pandemic, urban residents have begun to realize that food transported from long distances is not always reliable. Urb...
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Abrar Almalki, Balakrishna Gokaraju, Nikhil Mehta and Daniel Adrian Doss
Food access is a major key component in food security, as it is every individual?s right to proper access to a nutritious and affordable food supply. Low access to healthy food sources influences people?s diet and activity habits. Guilford County in Nort...
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Laila El Ghazouani, Lahouari Bounoua, Joseph Nigro, Majid Mansour, Hassan Radoine and Hanane Souidi
Landsat-8 surface temperature and the European Space Agency land cover are used to assess the impact of land cover on the Urban Heat Island (UHI) and Urban Heat Sink (UHS). We analyzed five Moroccan cities selected for their different local climate, size...
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Sherzad T. Tahir and Huei-Ping Huang
This study uses a suite of meteorological and land-surface models to quantify the changes in local climate and surface dust fluxes associated with desert urbanization. Formulas connecting friction velocity and soil moisture to dust generation are used to...
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Junfeng Jiao and Mingming Cai
The concept of transit deserts stems from the concept of food deserts. There is substantial research on transit deserts in developed countries. However, there is no known research that has studied this subject in Chinese cities. Using open-source data, t...
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Victor Ruiz-Aviles, Anthony Brazel, Jonathan M. Davis and David Pijawka
Extreme heat threatens desert city residents throughout the hot summer months and inhibits outdoor recreation and activity. Ecosystem services provide various benefits for urban environments. For desert cities, few are more critical than microclimate reg...
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Barry P. Young
As the world?s largest urban regions continue to expand, a concomitant rise in non-communicable diseases, particularly type 2 diabetes, poses an increasingly ominous challenge to experts in the field of public health. Given that the majority of the world...
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Xiaoyu Li, Xiaodong Liu and Zhi-Yong Yin
Aerosols are an important factor affecting air quality. As the largest source of dust aerosol of East Asia, the Taklimakan Desert in Northwest China witnesses frequent dust storm events, which bring about significant impacts on the downstream air quality...
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Siegmund Missall, Abdulla Abliz, Ümüt Halik, Niels Thevs and Martin Welp
Cities at the fringe of the Taklimakan desert in NW China are prone to dust and sand storms with serious consequences for human well-being. The Kökyar Protection Forest was established in the 1980s as an ecological engineering project with the intent of ...
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Ascario Pérez,Juan Carlos Ortiz,Luis F. Bejarano,Luis Otero D.,Juan C. Restrepo L.,Andrés Franco H.
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Circulation of sea breeze is a well-known and important mesoscale system, boosted by different properties of reception and storage of solar heat between land and sea during one day, and its effect on waves, currents, and transport of atmospheric contamin...
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