Academic Articles & Research Papers

Microclimate characteristics, temporal dynamics of soil bacterial communities, and potential co-occurrence network differences between greenhouse and open-field cultivation environments.

Association between infertility prevalence and exposure to heat stress: an ecological study based on the Universal Thermal Climate Index.

Telehealth for Addressing Climate Change: A Position Statement.

Parasites as environmental bioindicators and climate-sensitive sentinels in arid ecosystems: a one health synthesis with a focus on Saudi Arabia.

Highly resolved projections of climate and vegetation indicate major changes in northern Scandinavia: Implications for reindeer herding, tourism and nature conservation.

Predicting birth weights in West Africa using subseasonal to seasonal climate and socioeconomic variables shows potential for an early warning system.

Populations, exposures and outcomes: How social media data is poised to advance climate-demography research.

Exploring data science as a tool to advance linked socioecological systems in the context of climate change.

Climate change-driven compound dust storm and heatwave extremes in Central Asia under future CMIP6 scenarios.

Synoptic-to-interannual drivers of humid heat variability in equatorial Southeast Asia.

Geographical Thought: An Introduction to Ideas in Human Geography

1. Geographies of Empire: The Imperial Tradition Introduction Empire, imperialism and colonialism Defining terms Portuguese and Spanish empires British Empire The institionalisation of geography From 'fabulous' to 'militant' geography The R...

Study of Effect of Climate Change on Potential Evapotranspiration in Arid Areas Using Geostatistics (Case Study: Yazd Province)

In water systems, precipitation is considered as input and evaporation as the output of the system. Water availability can be estemated from the relationship between these two factors. Therefore, evapotranspiration is the most important fac...

Combined storytelling and mapping approaches for increasing community engagement with woodland creation and expansion projects

Abstract Forests and woodlands are important for biodiversity, climate change mitigation and the provision of services including recreation, timber and non‐timber forest products. Land use policies currently aim to increase forest cover whi...

Green corridors as climate-resilient infrastructure in smart cities: a systematic review using PRISMA guidelines

Urbanization has accelerated climate change-related risks in cities, such as urban heat islands, flooding, loss of biodiversity, and loss of ecosystem services. Green corridors have been identified as effective multifunctional approaches fo...

Heat Stress in Livestock: Impacts and Ameliorative Strategies—a Review

               Heat stress is one of the most important climatic conditions which adversely affects agricultural and livestock production worldwide. High ambient temperature with direct and indirect solar radiation, wind speed and relative ...

The Case for Letting Anthropology Burn: Sociocultural Anthropology in 2019

ABSTRACT This essay principally meditates on the scholarship published by sociocultural anthropologists in 2019. In 2019, the field of anthropology confronted anthropogenic climate change and authoritarian governance both as objects of scho...

Which Policy Issues Matter in Canadian Municipalities? A Survey of Municipal Politicians

Whether it’s a big city or a small town, all Canadian municipalities have core issues that their elected politicians are concerned about. Regardless of size, the daily business of a municipality must be managed and policies determined about...

Public Policy: Politics, Analysis, and Alternatives

In Public Policy : Politics, Analysis, and Alternatives, students come to understand how and why policy analysis is used to assess policy alternatives. To encourage critical and creative thinking on issues ranging from the federal deficit t...

Public Policy

A comprehensive introduction to public policy and the policy cycle, the fully revised second edition of this popular textbook offers a practical guide to the topic while remaining underpinned by cutting-edge research. Bringing together anal...

Overview of Compressed Sensing: Sensing Model, Reconstruction Algorithm, and Its Applications

With the development of intelligent networks such as the Internet of Things, network scales are becoming increasingly larger, and network environments increasingly complex, which brings a great challenge to network communication. The issues...