Int J Biometeorol (2010) 54:75–84 DOI 10.1007/s00484-009-0256-x ORIGINAL PAPER The urban heat island and its impact on heat waves and human health in Shanghai Jianguo Tan & Youfei Zheng & Xu Tang & Changyi Guo & Liping Li & Guixiang Song & Xinrong Zhen & Dong Yuan & Adam J. Kalkstein & Furong Li & Heng Chen Received: 17 December 2008 / Revised: 29 July 2009 / Accepted: 3 August 2009 / Published online: 1 September 2009 # ISB 2009 Abstract With global warming forecast to continue
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HALIL YILDIRIM 014001231 UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI GEOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT‚ SPRING TERM (Amount of words: 5012 for 5 credits) CRITIQUE OF MULTICULTURALISM BEHALF OF INTERCULTURALIM: POSSIBLE FUTURE FOR INTERCULTURAL HELSINKI With increasing cultural and social differentiation in Europe and other parts of world by migration or relocation after following decolonization and post war era also has brought some ambiguous problems in the sense of disputes‚ contest between social and cultural
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The urban crimes in Lembah Klang (the nature/ problems) Syndicate of Drug Abuse Since the last two decades‚ Malaysia has been undergoing accelerated urbanization. The recent rate of urbanization in Malaysia is 63% (EPU‚ 2006‚ p. 361) and predictable to be increase to 75% by the year 2020 (JPBD‚ 2006‚ p. 13). Urbanization often relates with increasing crimes in cities including Lembah Klang. According to Durkheim (2012)‚ crime is unavoidable and seen as normal part of everyday society. One of the
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The Effects of Suburban Sprawl in Canadian Cities Annotated works cited. Cox‚ W. (2004). Smart growth: threatening the quality of urban life. Halifax‚ Nova Scotia; Atlantic Institute for Market Studies. Smart growth policies do not yield the positive results that anti-suburbanites claim. In fact‚ the research contained in this book demonstrates that smart growth policies can have a negative effect on the health of a city. Portland‚ Oregon has the most aggressive smart growth policy in North
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historians now take a pluralist‚ “interdisciplinary”‚ approach when determining the reasons for the First Crusade. These reasons are highlighted in Pope Urban II’s powerful speech‚ Speech at Clermont. His speech‚ in itself‚ is complex through its masterful call to arms. Scholars have generally agreed that the primary catalyst to the First Crusade was Pope Urban II’s Speech at Clermont. In the late nineteenth century‚ scholars overplayed the role of Peter the Hermit as the
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Going into Sophomore year‚ starting my Urban class with Mr. Berkson‚ I was worried. Although I had heard he was a great teacher‚ something about being in a different class then I had planned worried me. Going into Sophomore year‚ I had planned to join Eastern Religions‚ but after going through some serious consideration‚ I decided to switch into Urban. To this day‚ my decision has not let me down. I enjoyed Mr. Berksons class all year‚ for many reasons. These reasons include his great humor‚ his
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album‚ “Be Here” by Keith Urban‚ is a country genre. Although‚ it still has the style of being in black and white and also tells you a bit about what the music is like just by seeing the image. The clearest part of this cover is that the artist is the main focus point on the cover. This is done so that the artist can promote himself and his music‚ which allows people to know who he is. The title of the album and the artist’s name as we can see is a very urban country style as the style
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Rural-Urban Differentials in the Attitude of Global Systems of GSM Ndagi‚ Oduwole & Sanusi Rural-Urban Differentials in the Attitude of Global Systems of Mobile Communication (GSM) Consumers to Merits and Demerits of GSM Technology in Ogun State‚ Nigeria I. Ndagi O. O. Oduwole R. A. Sanusi Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria AFRICA ABSTRACT The advent of the Global System of Mobile Communication (GSM) in Nigeria has become the order of most day-to-day activities; however‚ consumers of GSM services
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Pope Urban II The Crusades were one of the most astonishing movements during the last thousand years. The Crusades spanned hundreds of years in total and took tens of thousands of Europeans miles from their homes to a far off foreign land. During the Crusades much blood was shed‚ many lives were lost‚ and a lasting legacy was left by the Crusaders‚ the effects of which can still be felt today. The man who is credited with starting the Crusades was Pope Urban II. The Crusades were not a
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Chicago School of urban Sociology to the study of urban social organisation. The Chicago school is the name given to the work conducted at the University of Chicago since the 1890’s. In order to understand the contributions made by the Chicago School to the study or social organisation‚ it is important to understand the context in which the Chicago school emerged. This essay opens by sharing this contextual background on urban sociology. It then goes on to describe how urban ecology was considered
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