scholarly journals United Kingdom Experience with Local Agenda 21 and with the Development of Local Climate Change Strategies.

2002 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 217-231
Author(s):  
Brendan BARRETT ◽  
Grant BOYLE
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Change Strategies ◽  
Agenda 21 ◽  
Local Climate ◽  
Local Agenda 21 ◽  
Local Climate Change

scholarly journals Green Attraction—Transnational Municipal Climate Networks and Green City Branding

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henner Busch ◽  
Stefan Anderberg
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Change Strategies ◽  
City Branding ◽  
Local Climate ◽  
Climate Policies ◽  
Local Climate Change ◽  
German Cities ◽  
Climate Networks ◽  
Green City

<p>In this article, we investigate the nexus of green city branding and municipal climate networks. In recent decades, a number of formal transnational municipal climate networks have emerged and their membership continues to increase. In parallel, city branding that is based on green policies, has gained importance. Based on quantitative and qualitative data, we assess how and to what extent German cities use their membership in transnational municipal climate networks to communicate green city brands. In contrast to our expectations, we encountered very few indications of green city branding efforts by German cities. Our analysis shows that in general, branding considerations only play a negligible role in the involvement of cities in transnational municipal climate networks or climate policies. Instead, it seems that German cities use their membership in climate networks, to genuinely improve local climate change strategies. We therefore suggest that research on green city branding should be more sensitive to the particular context of cities and efforts should be made to unveil the underlying motives for the communication of green policies.</p>

LOCAL CLIMATE CHANGE TRENDS AND THEIR IMPACT ON GRAPE PRODUCTIVITY AND PHENOLOGY

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 117-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
G.Yu. Aleinikova ◽  
◽  
V.S. Petrov ◽  
V.V. Sokolova ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Local Climate ◽  
Local Climate Change

scholarly journals Heatwaves and Summer Urban Heat Islands: A Daily Cycle Approach to Unveil the Urban Thermal Signal Changes in Lisbon, Portugal

Atmosphere ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Oliveira ◽  
António Lopes ◽  
Ezequiel Correia ◽  
Samuel Niza ◽  
Amílcar Soares
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Air Temperature ◽  
Wind Direction ◽  
Urban Heat Islands ◽  
Daily Cycle ◽  
Local Climate ◽  
Thermal Signal ◽  
Air Temperatures ◽  
Local Climate Change ◽  
Urban Heat

Lisbon is a European Mediterranean city, greatly exposed to heatwaves (HW), according to recent trends and climate change prospects. Considering the Atlantic influence, air temperature observations from Lisbon’s mesoscale network are used to investigate the interactions between background weather and the urban thermal signal (UTS) in summer. Days are classified according to the prevailing regional wind direction, and hourly UTS is compared between HW and non-HW conditions. Northern-wind days predominate, revealing greater maximum air temperatures (up to 40 °C) and greater thermal amplitudes (approximately 10 °C), and account for 37 out of 49 HW days; southern-wind days have milder temperatures, and no HWs occur. Results show that the wind direction groups are significantly different. While southern-wind days have minor UTS variations, northern-wind days have a consistent UTS daily cycle: a diurnal urban cooling island (UCI) (often lower than –1.0 °C), a late afternoon peak urban heat island (UHI) (occasionally surpassing 4.0 °C), and a stable nocturnal UHI (1.5 °C median intensity). UHI/UCI intensities are not significantly different between HW and non-HW conditions, although the synoptic influence is noted. Results indicate that, in Lisbon, the UHI intensity does not increase during HW events, although it is significantly affected by wind. As such, local climate change adaptation strategies must be based on scenarios that account for the synergies between potential changes in regional air temperature and wind.

scholarly journals Local climate change signals and changes in climate extremes in a typical Sahel catchment: the case of Dano catchment, Burkina Faso

2021 ◽  
pp. 100285
Author(s):  
Gloria C. Okafor ◽  
Isaac Larbi ◽  
Emmanuel C. Chukwuma ◽  
Clement Nyamekye ◽  
Andrew Manoba Limantol ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Burkina Faso ◽  
Climate Extremes ◽  
Local Climate ◽  
Local Climate Change
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