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Gricelda Herrera-Franco, Lady Bravo-Montero, Jhon Caicedo-Potosí and Paúl Carrión-Mero
The excessive use of energy from fossil fuels, which corresponds to population, industrialisation, and unsustainable economic growth, is the cause of carbon dioxide production and climate change. The Water?Energy?Food (WEF) nexus is an applicable concept...
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Guozhen Huang, Yichang Tang, Xi Chen, Mingsheng Chen and Yanlin Jiang
Fossil fuel consumption has progressively increased alongside global population growth, representing the predominant energy consumption pattern for humanity. Unfortunately, this persistent reliance on fossil fuels has resulted in a substantial surge in p...
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Iasmin Lourenço Niza, Ana Maria Bueno and Evandro Eduardo Broday
The growing concern for sustainability is evident, given the importance of guaranteeing resources for the next generations, especially in the face of increasing energy consumption in buildings. Regardless of the context, people seek comfort, which makes ...
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Ni Putu Dewi Partini, Mahjus Ekananda
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The efforts of the G-20 for sustainable development continue to be pursued in order to improve human welfare while reducing pressure on ecological resources. The ecological footprint is used as a more comprehensive measure that can see the pressure on th...
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Sergei Soldatenko
The ocean, one of the five major components of the Earth?s climate system, plays a key role in climate-forming processes, affecting its change and variability. The ocean influences climate over a wide range of time?space scales. To explore the climate, i...
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Stavroula Dimitriadou and Konstantinos G. Nikolakopoulos
Evapotranspiration (ET) is a parameter of major importance participating in both hydrological cycle and surface energy balance. Trends of ET are discussed along with the dependence of evaporation to key environmental variables. The evaporation paradox ca...
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Eric W. Harmsen, John R. Mecikalski, Victor J. Reventos, Estefanía Álvarez Pérez, Sopuruchi S. Uwakweh and Christie Adorno García
In 2009, the University of Alabama-Huntsville configured their GOES satellited-based solar radiation product to include Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands (USVI), Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, and Cuba. The half-hourly and daily integrated data are...
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Henning Staiger, Gudrun Laschewski and Andreas Matzarakis
Application of thermal indices has become very popular over the last three decades. It is mostly aimed at urban areas and is also used in weather forecasting, especially for heat health warning systems. Recent studies also show the relevance of thermal i...
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Presently, almost all human activities (agriculture, transport, industry, construction sector, etc.) have an adverse impact on the environment. The construction sector in the EU alone accounts for a big part of the total energy consumption and emission o...
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Yueqiu Zhang, Shiliang Liu, Fangyan Cheng and Zhenyao Shen
China is the largest country in terms of population and its booming urbanization has exerted negative effects on ground-surface hydrological processes at different spatial scales, land-use types, and water balance, such as surface runoff, groundwater rec...
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