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Spatiotemporal evaluation of the built environment's impact on commuting duration
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Author
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Thill, Jean-Claude, Hatami, Faizeh
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Commuting, Residential mobility
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Description
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Upward trends in commuting duration and distance due to urban sprawl in the United States have raised concerns about the ensuing environmental, social and economic problems. Various urban planning approaches have been developed, hypothesizing that...
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COVID-19 pandemic severity, lockdown regimes, and people’s mobility : early evidence from 88 countries
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Author
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Thill, Jean-Claude, Rahman, Md. Mokhlesur, Paul, Kamal Chandra
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Subjects--Topical
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Public health, COVID-19 (Disease), Social distancing (Public health)
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Description
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This study empirically investigates the complex interplay between the severity of the coronavirus pandemic, mobility changes in retail and recreation, transit stations, workplaces, and residential areas, and lockdown measures in 88 countries aroun...
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The socio-ecological factors that influence the adoption of green infrastructure
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Author
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Tayouga, Sarah J., Gagne, Sara A.
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Subjects--Topical
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Sustainable buildings, Social ecology
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Description
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Green infrastructure is defined as any type of infrastructure that has the purpose of lessening the burden of development on the environment and/or has the aim of providing ecosystem services, such as runoff management, air temperature reduction, ...
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Tourism and sustainability in the evaluation of World Heritage Sites, 1980–2010
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Author
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Schmutz, Vaughn, Elliott, Michael A.
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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World Heritage areas, Sustainable tourism
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Description
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At present, there are myriad concerns about tourism and sustainability at cultural and natural world heritage sites. Based on an analysis of 811 evaluations written between 1980 and 2010 by two official advisory bodies to the World Heritage Commit...
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Densification without growth management? Evidence from local land development and housing trends in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
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Author
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Thill, Jean-Claude, Delmelle, Elizabeth, Zhou, Yuhong
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Date Created
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2014
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Subjects--Topical
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North Carolina--Charlotte, City planning
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Description
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In urban America, land development and residential real estate have passed through a number of different phases during the post-WWII era. In contemporary discourse on urban sustainability, attention is often expressed in terms of intensity of land...
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Title
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Thermodynamic analysis of ORC and its application for waste heat recovery
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Author
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Javanshir, Alireza, Sarunac, Nenad, Razzaghpanah, Zahra
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Heat recovery, Sustainability
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Description
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The analysis and optimization of an organic Rankine cycle (ORC) used as a bottoming cycle in the Brayton/ORC and steam Rankine/ORC combined cycle configurations is the main focus of this study. The results show that CO2 and air are the best workin...
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Title
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Five approaches to social sustainability and an integrated way forward
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Author
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Boyer, Robert, Peterson, Nicole, Caldwell, Kevin, Arora, Poonam
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Sustainable development, Sustainable development--Social aspects
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Description
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Sustainability is often conceived of as an attempt to balance competing economic, environmental and social priorities. Over the course of three decades of scholarship, however, the meaning and appropriate application of the ‘social pillar’ continu...