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Aenne A. Brielmann, Nir H. Buras, Nikos A. Salingaros and Richard P. Taylor
This article reviews current research in visual urban perception. The temporal sequence of the first few milliseconds of visual stimulus processing sheds light on the historically ambiguous topic of aesthetic experience. Automatic fractal processing trig...
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María Teresa Baquero Larriva
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ResumenEste artículo presenta el marco teórico sobre algunos de los problemas de las ciudades del siglo XXI como son el cambio climático, la urbanización y el envejecimiento de la población, con el fin de establecer los antecedentes que guían la investig...
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Gabriela Litre,Marcel Bursztyn,Saulo Rodrigues Filho,Patricia Mesquita
How can you move a team of scholars of the most varied academic backgrounds out of their multidisciplinary comfort zone and towards genuine interdisciplinarity (integration and collaboration) in the climate change research field? This was the challenge t...
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João Paulo Assis Gobo, Emerson Galvani and Cássio Arthur Wollmann
This research concerns a first approach to adapt the thermal comfort bands of the Physiological Equivalent Temperature (PET), New Standard Effective Temperature (SET), and Predicted Mean Vote (PMV) indices to Santa Maria?s population, Rio Grande do Sul, ...
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Lina Röschel, Frieder Graef, Ottfried Dietrich, Meike Pendo Schäfer and Dagmar Haase
Climatic and environmental changes are expected to affect in particular those regions where the economy is primarily based on the agricultural sector and where the dependency on water availability is high. This study examines how smallholder farmers in r...
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R. Dayanandan
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Climate change and variability worsened the situation by increasing moisture stress in the growing seasons of most cereal crops. Agricultural production among the farming rural adults in the country is adversely affected by climate change. As a result of...
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Francis Ndamani and Tsunemi Watanabe
This study evaluates the socio-economic predictors of farmers? perceptions about climate risk in agriculture. The levels of risk perception among different farmers? wealth groups are also investigated. A total of 100 farmers in the Lawra district of Ghan...
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Margaret Mwangi
The study examined the spatiotemporal distribution of drought in the Maasai rangelands of Kenya. The implications of this distribution, in concert with the documented existing and/or projected social and biophysical factors, on critical rangeland resourc...
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Tommaso Caloiero, Angela Aurora Pasqua and Olga Petrucci
A damaging hydrogeological event (DHE) is characterized by two components: a rainfall event and a subsequent damage event, which is the result of floods and landslides triggered by rainfall. The characteristics of both events depend on climatic, geomorph...
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Irina Tumini
El microclima urbano juega un rol importante en el consumo energético de los edificios y en las sensaciones de confort en los espacios exteriores. La urgente necesidad de aumentar la eficiencia energética, reducir las emisiones de los contaminantes y pal...
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