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Impacts of Urban Expansion on the Urban Thermal Environment: A Case Study of Changchun, China
Urbanization, especially urban land expansion, has a profound influence on the urban thermal environment. Cities in Northeast China face remarkably...
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Turkey: Clımate Variability, Extreme Temperature, and Precipitation
Climate variability and climate change have significant impacts in many areas of the world with different effects. It is generally accepted that...
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Sub-city Scale Temperature Distribution
Surface air temperature can show small-scale variations corresponding to uneven land use. Urban green spaces tend to form cool islands that mitigate...
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Spatial-temporal Analysis and Prediction of Precipitation Extremes: A Case Study in the Weihe River Basin, China
Extreme precipitation events bring considerable risks to the natural ecosystem and human life. Investigating the spatial-temporal characteristics of...
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Geomorphological Diversity of Poland—Major Controls and Main Geomorphological Regions
The chapter provides an overview of morphological diversity of Poland. Although predominantly a lowland country, Poland is remarkably diverse in...
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Monitoring Intra-annual Spatiotemporal Changes in Urban Heat Islands in 1449 Cities in China Based on Remote Sensing
This study aimed to accurately study the intra-annual spatiotemporal variation in the surface urban heat island intensities (SUHIIs) in 1449 cities...
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Aspects of Climate Change in Greece
The Mediterranean is projected to be a climate change hot spot region with rising temperatures and reduced precipitation already occurring, expected...
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Dynamics and interactions of water-related ecosystem services in the Yellow River Basin, China
Climate change and human activities have profoundly altered ecosystem services in the Yellow River Basin (YRB) since the Grain for Green project was...
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Dryland Social-Ecological Systems in Australia
Dryland social-ecological systems in Australia are characterized by a water-limited climate, vulnerable terrestrial ecosystems, advanced ecosystem...
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The Periglaciation of Europe
Europe includes a vast surface extent from subtropical to polar latitudes. The rough relief of the continent with several peninsulas, islands, capes,...
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Life at Home
An Unangax̂ individual's identity centered on his or her village. Villages were permanent, year-round residential settlements, occupied over...
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Planning Towards Healthy City—Case of Hyderabad
Urbanization is increasing pressure on natural resources, urban infrastructure, and public health system, which in turn increases pressure on their...
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Part A: Ecological Basics (Autecology)
The concept of dividing the landscape into zonobiomes requires clear ecological criteria that take into account the interrelationships of ecological...
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Identifying influential climatic factors for urban risk studies in rapidly urbanizing Region
Severe weather events, such as heat waves, floods, pollution, and health threats, are becoming more common in metropolitan places across the world....
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Mount Ślęża—The Highest Inselberg in the Sudetic Foreland and Its Glacial-Periglacial Morphogenesis
Mt. Ślęża is a striking landmark of the Sudetic Foreland in SW Poland, rising as a distinctive inselbergInselberg more than 500 m above the...
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Forest Reserves in Urban Landscape: Case of Udawattakele and Dunumadalawa Forest Patches in Kandy, Sri Lanka
Urban forestsForest play a significant role in urban space since their provision of ecosystem servicesEcosystem services. The study focuses on two...
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Epilogue: Tickling the Dragon’s Tail
This chapter reviews the environmental dimensions of twentieth-century petroleum wars, and explores the deployment sub-atomic and digital...
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The World Itself
Astronomers now know of thousands of exoplanets, planets that orbit distant stars. None of those planets are much like ours. This might be because...
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The People
This account shared by the Unangax̂, or Aleut people, about their arrival is not dissimilar from the accounts by archaeologists.
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Global scale study of the environmental preferences and distribution of Orcinus orca
We aimed to describe global patterns of distribution (general and seasonal) for Orcinus orca , and to describe its environmental preferences. We used...
