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Chapter 4: Building Sustainable dwellings, neighbourhoods and communities
This chapter analyses the residential sector from a well-being perspective and proposes a number of policy priorities that are consistent with wider well-being and sustainability goals. It explores several indicators that can improve policy makers’ ability to monitor progress in delivering these priorities in the sector, as well as guide decisions to capture the benefits of a two-way alignment between climate and wider well-being goals, while also managing trade-offs. The chapter examines the relationship between the proposed indicators and the indicators used by the Sustainable Development Goals and the OECD Framework for Measuring Well-being and Progress
Mapping the Evolution of Optically-Generated Rotational Wavepackets in a Room Temperature Ensemble of D
A coherent superposition of rotational states in D has been excited by
nonresonant ultrafast (12 femtosecond) intense (2 10
Wcm) 800 nm laser pulses leading to impulsive dynamic alignment.
Field-free evolution of this rotational wavepacket has been mapped to high
temporal resolution by a time-delayed pulse, initiating rapid double
ionization, which is highly sensitive to the angle of orientation of the
molecular axis with respect to the polarization direction, . The
detailed fractional revivals of the neutral D wavepacket as a function of
and evolution time have been observed and modelled theoretically.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. A. Full
reference to follow.
Possible observation of parametrically amplified coherent phasons in K0.3MoO3 using time-resolved extreme-ultraviolet ARPES
We use time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (tr-ARPES) in the
Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) to measure the time- and momentum-dependent
electronic structure of photo-excited K0.3MoO3. Prompt depletion of the Charge
Density Wave (CDW) condensate launches coherent oscillations of the amplitude
mode, observed as a 1.7-THz-frequency modulation of the bonding band position.
In contrast, the anti-bonding band oscillates at about half this frequency. We
attribute these oscillations to coherent excitation of phasons via parametric
amplification of phase fluctuations.Comment: 4 figure
GREEN ENERGY - THE FUTURE ENERGY WITHIN BIOTERRA UNIVERSITY CAMPUS
Green energies are widely implemented worldwide and also in our country. Our paper provides its applicability in terms of facilities within Bioterra University central campus in Bucharest and also in our Tourist and Students Practice Units located in Predeal – "TreiBrazi", Buşteni –" Zamora" , Danube Delta –"Baltenii de Sus" and at the Seaside - EforieSud and Comorova Forest, Neptun resort (all being owned by Bioterra University of Bucharest).At the United Nations Conference in Paris (held on 12 December 2015) regarding the Climate change, the partners  reached a New Global Climate change Agreement: limiting global warming, well below 2 Celsius degrees, underlining the importance of using of the non-polluting renewable energies. Beyond this limit, the scientists fear of the next irreversible effects:- repeated extreme events - cyclones, droughts, etc.;- decline of agricultural yields;- extinction of some species. Rising with +2 Celsius degrees, the sea level will increase with 40 cm till 2100 year; rising with + 4-5 Celsius degrees, the sea level will increasewith 80 cm and it will continue to ascend
Climate action for health and wellbeing in cities: a protocol for the systematic development of a database of peer-reviewed studies using machine learning methods [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]
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Climate action for health and wellbeing in cities: a protocol for the systematic development of a database of peer-reviewed studies using machine learning methods [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]
Kristine Belesova https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6160-50411, Max Callaghan https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8292-87582, Jan C Minx https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2862-01782, Felix Creutzig2, Catalina Turcu https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2663-25863, Emma Hutchinson1, James Milner1, Melanie Crane https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3058-22114, Andy Haines https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8053-46051, Michael Davies5, Paul Wilkinson1
Author details
1 Department of Public Health, Environments and Society and Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, WC1H 9SH, UK
2 Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, Berlin, 10829, Germany
3 Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, London, WC1H 0QB, UK
4 Charles Perkins Centre, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
5 Bartlett School Environment, Energy & Resources, University College London, London, WC1H 0QB, UK
Kristine Belesova
Roles: Conceptualization, Data Curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – Original Draft Preparation, Writing – Review & Editing
Max Callaghan
Roles: Data Curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – Review & Editing
Jan C Minx
Roles: Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – Review & Editing
Felix Creutzig
Roles: Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – Review & Editing
Catalina Turcu
Roles: Investigation, Methodology, Writing – Review & Editing
Emma Hutchinson
Roles: Investigation, Methodology, Writing – Review & Editing
James Milner
Roles: Methodology, Writing – Review & Editing
Melanie Crane
Roles: Methodology, Writing – Review & Editing
Andy Haines
Roles: Conceptualization, Funding Acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – Review & Editing
Michael Davies
Roles: Conceptualization, Funding Acquisition, Methodology, Writing – Review & Editing
Paul Wilkinson
Roles: Conceptualization, Funding Acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – Review & Editing
Abstract
Cities produce more than 70% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Action by cities is therefore crucial for climate change mitigation as well as for safeguarding the health and wellbeing of their populations under climate change. Many city governments have made ambitious commitments to climate change mitigation and adaptation and implemented a range of actions to address them. However, a systematic record and synthesis of the findings of evaluations of the effect of such actions on human health and wellbeing is currently lacking. This, in turn, impedes the development of robust knowledge on what constitutes high-impact climate actions of benefit to human health and wellbeing, which can inform future action plans, their implementation and scale-up. The development of a systematic record of studies reporting climate and health actions in cities is made challenging by the broad landscape of relevant literature scattered across many disciplines and sectors, which is challenging to effectively consolidate using traditional literature review methods. This protocol reports an innovative approach for the systematic development of a database of studies of climate change mitigation and adaptation actions implemented in cities, and their benefits (or disbenefits) for human health and wellbeing, derived from peer-reviewed academic literature. Our approach draws on extensive tailored search strategies and machine learning methods for article classification and tagging to generate a database for subsequent systematic reviews addressing questions of importance to urban decision-makers on climate actions in cities for human health and wellbeing
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