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Adaptation to the climate change and management of natural risks: searching for synthesis in urban planning
(PONTIFICA UNIV CATOLICA CHILE, INST GEOGRAFIA, 2016)
Since the late 1980s, a new vocabulary associated with concerns about climate change has emerged. Nevertheless, this article argues that the concepts used to describe urban adaptation are a part of the history of urban ...
The biodiversity of urban and peri-urban forests and the diverse ecosystem services they provide as socio-ecological systems
(2016)
Urban and peri-urban forests provide a variety of ecosystem service benefits for urban society. Recognising and understanding the many human-tree interactions that urban forests provide may be more complex but probably ...
The urban climate system and the impacts of flooding on Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
(2019-02-23)
Despite their individual socio-spatial paths of development, the countries of Latin America underwent similar urbanization processes. Analyzed from the geographical perspective of the spatial relationship between society ...
Assessment of urban heat Islands in small- and mid-sized cities in Brazil
(2017-03-01)
Urban heat islands (UHIs) in large cities and different climatic regions have been thoroughly studied; however, their effects are becoming a common concern in smaller cities as well. We assessed UHIs in three tropical ...
Urban climate in the South American coastal cities of Guayaquil, Lima, Antofagasta, and Valparaíso, and its impacts on the energy efficiency of buildings
(Springer International Publishing, 2019)