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Urban Heat Islands (UHIs) are a microclimatic phenomenon which manifests as a significant increase in the temperature of cities compared to their surrounding areas. Recently the phenomenon has been enforced by the tendency to climate change and in particular by extreme climate events. This book presents and analyzes the results of a project to develop and apply mitigation and adaptation strategies and measures for counteracting the global urban heat islands phenomenon, supported by the EU’s Central Europe Regional Development Fund. Pilot studies were carried out in eight metropolitan areas: Bologna/Modena, Budapest, Ljubljana, Lodz, Prague, Stuttgart, Venice/Padua, and Vienna. The project involved feasibility studies and strategies for appropriately altering planning rules and governance to tackle the problem of UHIs, and focused on the specific morphology of EU urban areas, which are often characterized by the presence of historical old towns. The first part of the book is devoted to evidence, measures and tools, including tools to facilitate UHI analysis and decision support systems. The second part explores measures for counteracting urban heat islands, including specific analysis of the case studies and offering solutions for European cities. The volume includes supplemental materials such as references, glossaries and keyword lists. The UHI management plans developed here can be integrated into national and regional sustainable development approaches for urban and land planning. They can also contribute to the application of innovative urban planning techniques that foster a new “climate proof” planning approach in European cities. UHI project has been implemented through the CENTRAL EUROPE Programme co-financed by the ERDF.

Environment. --- Climate change. --- Remote sensing. --- Physics. --- Climate Change. --- Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry. --- Energy Efficiency. --- Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts. --- Applied and Technical Physics. --- Natural philosophy --- Philosophy, Natural --- Remote-sensing imagery --- Remote sensing systems --- Remote terrain sensing --- Sensing, Remote --- Terrain sensing, Remote --- Changes, Climatic --- Climate change --- Climate changes --- Climate variations --- Climatic change --- Climatic changes --- Climatic fluctuations --- Climatic variations --- Global climate changes --- Global climatic changes --- Environmental aspects --- Physical sciences --- Dynamics --- Aerial photogrammetry --- Aerospace telemetry --- Detectors --- Space optics --- Climatology --- Climate change mitigation --- Teleconnections (Climatology) --- Climatic changes. --- Changes in climate --- Climate change science --- Energy efficiency. --- Consumption of energy --- Energy efficiency --- Fuel consumption --- Fuel efficiency --- Power resources --- Energy conservation --- Global environmental change --- Climate Change --- Energy Efficiency --- Remote Sensing --- Photogrammetry --- Physics

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Biomaterials are often designed to act as scaffolds, i.e., 3D porous templates that support and stimulate the growth of healthy tissue and then safely dissolve once they have performed their functions. This book provides a picture of the current state of the art in the field of scaffolds for tissue engineering, highlighting the potential associated to the latest scientific and technological advancements. The former part of the book focuses on the repair of ""hard"" tissues (primarily bone) by means of bioceramic/glass scaffolds, and the latter deals with the applications of polymeric scaffolds for regenerating ""soft"" tissues and structures including the peripheral nerve, heart, gastric mucosa and pancreas. Special emphasis is given to the challenges associated to scaffold manufacturing, biomimetic properties and cell-scaffold interactions.

Tissue engineering. --- Biomedical engineering --- Regenerative medicine --- Tissue culture --- Physical Sciences --- Engineering and Technology --- Materials Science --- Biomaterials --- Tissue Engineering

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Architecture --- Architecture, Interiors.

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Manzoni, Alessandro --- Gadda, Carlo Emilio --- Manzoni, Alessandro, --- Gadda, Carlo Emilio, --- Criticism and interpretation --- Manzoni, Alessandro, - 1785-1873 - Criticism and interpretation --- Gadda, Carlo Emilio, - 1893-1973 - Criticism and interpretation --- Manzoni, Alessandro, - 1785-1873 --- Gadda, Carlo Emilio, - 1893-1973