Trade-offs and conflicts between urban climate change mitigation and adaptation measures: A literature review

A Sharifi - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2020 - Elsevier
Many cities around the world are increasingly develo** plans and policies for mitigation
and adaptation to climate change. These plans and policies are often focused on either …

Input–output analysis and carbon footprinting: an overview of applications

JC Minx, T Wiedmann, R Wood, GP Peters… - Economic systems …, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
This article provides an overview of how generalised multi-regional input–output models can
be used for carbon footprint applications. We focus on the relevance and suitability of such …

Urbanization-environment conundrum: an invitation to sustainable development in Saudi Arabian cities

AI Almulhim, PB Cobbinah - International Journal of Sustainable …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
As rapid urbanization becomes a key topic within urban studies and planning particularly in
the Global South, it needs to be considered what radical implications to urban environment …

[HTML][HTML] Urbanization and its environmental effects in Shanghai, China

L Cui, J Shi - Urban Climate, 2012 - Elsevier
This paper analyzes the processes and characteristics of urbanization in Shanghai, focusing
on the population and land use and land cover (LULC) change, and its correlation with the …

Cities' contribution to global warming: notes on the allocation of greenhouse gas emissions

D Satterthwaite - Environment and urbanization, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper suggests that the contribution of cities to global anthropogenic greenhouse gas
emissions is often overstated. Many sources suggest that cities are responsible for 75—80 …

A systems approach to meeting the challenges of urban climate change

J Da Silva, S Kernaghan, A Luque - International Journal of Urban …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
This article identifies the future challenges that cities face in their ability to create well-being,
particularly for urban poor communities, as a result of the compound effect generated by …

Key challenges in agent-based modelling for geo-spatial simulation

A Crooks, C Castle, M Batty - Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 2008 - Elsevier
Agent-based modelling (ABM) is becoming the dominant paradigm in social simulation due
primarily to a worldview that suggests that complex systems emerge from the bottom-up, are …

Urban environmental quality assessment using remote sensing and census data

MA Musse, DA Barona, LMS Rodriguez - International journal of applied …, 2018 - Elsevier
Urban planning to solve environmental problems in Latin American cities requires
information that commonly does not exist or, if it does exist, is at different scales, which …

Trade-offs and synergies in urban climate policies

V Viguié, S Hallegatte - Nature Climate Change, 2012 - nature.com
Cities are at the forefront of climate policies,,,,,. However, urban climate policies are not
implemented in a vacuum; they interact with other policy goals, such as economic …

Patterns of land change and their potential impacts on land surface temperature change in Yangon, Myanmar

YC Wang, BKH Hu, SW Myint, CC Feng… - Science of the Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
This study used remote sensing imagery to characterize land use/cover patterns and to
derive land surface temperature (LST) of Greater Yangon, the largest urban agglomeration …