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Urban Climate Resilience and Its Link to Global Sustainability Agendas
(Academia, 2021)This chapter examines urban climate resilience. It provides a conceptual introduction, followed by an explanation of how urban areas have been recognized in recent global agendas related to sustainability, climate change, ... -
Urban Qualities and Residents’ Strategies in Compact Global South Cities: The Case of Havana
(Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 2021-04-20)Research and policy argue for more compact cities to respond to sustainable development challenges. However, what actually needs to be made more compact and how, is under examined, particularly in global South cities where ... -
Use of downscaled tropical rainfall measuring mission data for meteorological drought monitoring: case study of Narumoru catchment
(International Journal of Advances in Engineering & Technology, 2014)Remotely sensed satellite rainfall data has gained popularity in the recent past, been especially attractive to ungauged catchments or poorly gauged catchments. Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) data is considered ... -
What Makes a Compact City? Differences Between Urban Research in the Global North and the Global South
(2020)Compact cities are promoted in policy as a response to current societal challenges, but it is unclear or ambiguous what qualities or benefits a compact city is supposed to deliver. The concept of the compact city is widely ...