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Arja Asikainen, Erkki Pärjälä, Matti Jantunen, Jouni T. Tuomisto and And Clive E. Sabel
Implementation of greenhouse gas (GHG) abatement strategies often ends up as the responsibility of municipal action rather than national policies. Impacts of local GHG reduction measures were investigated in the EU FP7 funded project Urban Reduction of G...
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Johannes Henkel, Robert Kunde, Matthias Gaderer and Georg Erdmann
This paper assesses and compares existing and new technologies for space heating in Germany (e.g., heat pumps, and solar thermal and wood pellet systems) in terms of their environmental impacts. The various technologies were analyzed within the context o...
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Cordelia Onyinyechi Omodero and Philip Olasupo Alege
Local governments are the motors that drive the lives of their citizens. There is no human individual who does not live under a local government, regardless of where they are situated. This is why every local authority?s environment requires a wide range...
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Julia Mayer, Martin Memmel, Johannes Ruf, Dhruv Patel, Lena Hoff and Sascha Henninger
Urban tree cadastres, crucial for climate adaptation and urban planning, face challenges in maintaining accuracy and completeness. A transdisciplinary approach in Kaiserslautern, Germany, complements existing incomplete tree data with additional precise ...
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Hao Zhang, Jie Tang, Shuang Liang, Zhaoyang Li, Ping Yang, Jingjing Wang and Sining Wang
Agricultural ecosystems are important contributors to atmospheric greenhouse gasses (GHGs); however, in situ winter emission data in saline-alkali fields are scarce. Gas samples were collected during different periods, from three rice (R1?R3) and three m...
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Rachel Medina and A. Dan Tarlock
Automobiles are a major source of CO2 emissions. Because there is no immediate technological fix to reduce these emissions, the most promising current strategy is to promote less automobile use. In the United States, this is difficult because ...
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Petros Chatzimpiros, Natalia Roumelioti, Anna Zamba, Kimon Hadjibiros
One important component of the urban contribution to carbon dioxide atmospheric emissions is road transport. Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from urban road transport in the centre of Athens recorded over a period of five years (2000?2005) are compared wi...
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Luisa Maria Diele-Viegas,Carlos Frederico Duarte Rocha
The Fernando de Noronha archipelago is a key site for biodiversity conservation, besides being one of the most searched destinies for ecotourism in Brazil. We present the first study focusing on the evaluation of this important archipelago?s exposure to ...
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Global warming, climate change is now affecting the world. The effort of the leaders to achieving the sustainable development is from New Urban Agenda (NUA), Sustainable Development Goals (SDG?s) and local level is local authorities. SDG?s goal num...
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Jian Zheng, Wenjun Sun, Yun Li and Jiayin Hu
In order to solve the multi-objective planning and trajectory tracking control problem related to maritime autonomous surface ships (MASSs), a new design scheme for autonomous navigation is proposed in this paper, with a receding horizon navigation and c...
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Paolo Tuccella, Laurent Menut, Régis Briant, Adrien Deroubaix, Dmitry Khvorostyanov, Sylvain Mailler, Guillaume Siour and Solène Turquety
The indirect effects of aerosol are particularly important over regions where meteorological conditions and aerosol content are favourable to cloud formation. This was observed during the Intensive Cloud Aerosol Measurement Campaign (IMPACT) (European In...
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The potential of carbon dioxide emissions mitigation in the building sector can be achieved through energy policies, progressive goals, and support systems to attain sustainable constructions that guarantee the reduction of emissions. Net-Zero Energy Bui...
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Ignacia Holmes, Catherine Potvin and Oliver T. Coomes
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) offers developing countries an opportunity to engage in global climate change mitigation through the sale of carbon credits for reforestation, avoided deforestation and forest conservat...
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Sambhawika Srivastava,Manish Kumar,Ram S. Singh,Birendra N. Rai,Rajesh K. Mall,Tirthankar Banerjee
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The first ever long-term measurement of black carbon (BC) aerosols over an urban location at the central Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) is presented. Both short- and long-term variations in BC during the period 2009-2013 are discussed with specific emphasis o...
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Claire Sarrat, Sébastien Aubry, Thomas Chaboud and Christine Lac
Local air quality is a major concern for the population regularly exposed to high levels of air pollution. Due mainly to its aircraft engine activities during taxiing and take-off, the airport is often submitted to heterogeneous but important concentrati...
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Michel AndrÉ, Marion Carteret, Anaïs Pasquier, Yao Liu
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To decrease traffic pollutant emissions, numerous agglomerations envisage measures such as Low Emission Zones allowing only the less polluting vehicles to drive in dedicated areas. However, their implementation and efficiency depend strongly on the local...
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Kieran N. Tait, Mohammad Anwar H. Khan, Steve Bullock, Mark H. Lowenberg and Dudley E. Shallcross
Non-CO2 aircraft emissions are responsible for the majority of aviation?s climate impact, however their precise effect is largely dependent on the environmental conditions of the ambient air in which they are released. Investigating the principal causes ...
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Thomas L. Brewer
The data and analysis can be applied to shipping emissions issues at five governmental levels: local (ports and port cities), subnational regional (port authorities), national (Italy and other countries), international regional (European Union and Medite...
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Apostolos Papanikolaou, Yan Xing-Kaeding, Johannes Strobel, Aphrodite Kanellopoulou, George Zaraphonitis and Edmund Tolo
The present study focuses on the hydrodynamic hull form optimization of a zero emission, battery driven, fast catamaran vessel. A two-stage optimization procedure was implemented to identify in the first stage (global optimization) the optimum combinatio...
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