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Existing Buildings’ Energy Upgrade: An Economical and Environmentally Sustainable Opportunity
Given the huge amount of energy consumption imputable to existing buildings, and the relatively slow buildings’ substitution in both urban and suburban areas all over the world, building energy upgrade, starti...
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Cool Materials for Passive Cooling in Buildings
Cool materials are an acknowledged, environmentally friendly and relatively cost-effective solution that can be easily integrated in the built environment with the threefold aim of reducing building cooling en...
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Human Adaptation to Higher Ambient Temperature
The on-going climate change is leading to a progressively warmer world where extreme weather events, including heat waves (HWs), are going to be more frequent and intense. While limiting the anthropogenic cont...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Introduction
As cities grow, they become more significant contributors to climate change while also being vulnerable to its effects, posing risks also for their citizens’ health and well-being. Urgent actions are needed to...
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Book and Conference Proceedings
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Article
Open AccessSustainability of international research: evidence from an H2020 European project
Greenhouse gas emissions reduction is a critical topic in the scientific community, as researchers strive to produce knowledge for the betterment of society. However, it is important to acknowledge that resear...
