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Farmland Preservation Programs : Another Tool for Managing Urban Growth?

Nickerson, Cynthia; Hellerstein, Daniel - 2016

On average, 2.2 million acres of farmland per year were converted to urban uses between 1992 and 2001. Every State has enacted measures that help protect farmland, but most measures do not preserve farmland permanently. Purchase of Development Rights (PDR) programs, is increasingly popular....

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Urbanization, climate change, and structural transformation in Accra, Ghana

Danquah, Michael; Ouattara, Bazoumana; Ohemeng, Williams; … - 2024

This study examines the effect of climate on citywide labour productivity in the Accra city region. We use data from Ghana's Integrated Business and Establishment Survey dataset, climate data at the sub-city level from Ghana Meteorological Agency, and satellite and reanalysis data, as well as...

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Compact and livable? : identifying and managing the relationships between intensive land use and urban livability : evidence from 337 cities in China

Jiang, Guanghui; Ji, Wenqin; Tian, Yaya; Ma, Wenqiu - In: Ecological economics 232 (2025), pp. 1-14

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Impact of Urbanization on Changes in CO 2 Emissions in China : Analysis of 30 Provincial Administrative Units

Huang, Yuzhuo; Matsumoto, Ken'ichi - 2020

China’s extensive and growing CO2 emissions are linked to rapid economic development and advancing urbanization, posing … China’s CO2 emissions. However, to date, no studies have examined the impacts of urbanization on CO2 emissions across all of … intensity, residential consumption and consumption inhibition, and population urbanization and size), we applied the logarithmic …

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The new urban paradigm

Lanfranchi, Gabriel; Herrero, Ana Carolina; Palenzuela, … - 2018

This policy brief argues in favor of a new urban model that harnesses the power that cities have to curb global warming. Such a model tackles fundamental management challenges in the energy, building and transport sectors to promote the growth of diverse and compact cities. Such a model is...

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Remote sensing of urban cyclone impact and resilience : evidence from Idai

Fisker, Peter Simonsen; Malmgren-Hansen, David; … - 2021

Cyclone Idai, the most devastating cyclone ever recorded in Southern Africa, caused havoc in large parts of central Mozambique, especially the port city of Beira, upon its landfall in March 2019. This study reviews and compares measurements of the impact, using various sources of remote sensing...

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Conceptualizing Urban Adaptation to Climate Change

Breil, Margaretha; Johnson, Katie - 2012

Vulnerability to climate change is an increasingly relevant issue for urban policy makers. Recent efforts of urban management have looked beyond mitigation to focus on adaption measures to protect cities from increasing sea levels, temperatures and extreme events. Defining factors in urban...

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Anthropogenic climate change in an integrated energy balance model of global and urban warming

Sato, Kimitoshi - In: Journal of economic structures : JES; the official … 3 (2014), pp. 1-21

This paper presents an integrated energy balance model of global and urban warming in the attributes/functionings framework à la Gorman-Lancaster-Sen and proposes a Global Warming Function and an Urban Warming Function. Also presented is a concept of Heat Island Integral, which measures the...

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Flächenschutzpolitische Implikationen eines Regionalen Gewerbeflächenpools

Krumm, Raimund (contributor) - 2008

Das neue Konzept des Regionalen Gewerbeflächenpools geht über den bisher bekannten Ansatz der interkommunalen Gewerbegebiete deutlich hinaus. Mit dem Poolkonzept werden nicht nur regionalökonomische Ziele verfolgt; vielmehr soll es auch einen Beitrag dazu leisten,den Flächenverbrauch im...

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Environmental zoning and urban development : natural regional parks in France

Salanié, Julien; Coisnon, Thomas - 2016

This study provides an empirical analysis of the effects of environmental zoning on urban development. It focuses on the case of Natural Regional Parks (NRPs) in France. Of the environmental zoning instruments used in France, NRPs extend over the widest physical area. The analysis uses a...

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