Essays about: "microclimate"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 76 essays containing the word microclimate.
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11. The assessment of ecosystem services provided by forest edge effects on fields in a fragmented Swedish agricultural landscape : a methodological framework
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Crop Production EcologyAbstract : Agricultural expansion, prompted by increasing global food demand, has fragmented, simplified, and homogenized the landscape in the last decades. The resilience and sustainability of croplands are at stake, resulting in a hight vulnerability to climate change, and having major impacts on environmental protection, biodiversity preservation and food security. READ MORE
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12. Vegetation cover change on Tindfjöll mountains, Iceland, assessed by aerial photographs, topography, and climate
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskapAbstract : Guðrún Guðjónsdóttir Climate change is having a great impact on the fragile High Latitude environment where warming is occurring at a rate at least double the global average. It is urgent to understand the relationship between climate and vegetation cover, which is playing an important role, as a carbon sink, for biodiversity, and for protecting against natural hazards. READ MORE
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13. Mitigating the Urban Heat Island Effect in a Local Context : how wind and vegetation regulate temperatures during summer, with an example from the grounds of Karlstad Central Hospital, Sweden
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)Abstract : Climate change is the cause of more weather extremes. Cities' dense configuration, heat absorbing surfaces and low amount of vegetation leads to higher temperatures within cities known as the urban heat island effect (UHI). READ MORE
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14. MICRO-CLIMATE CHARACTERIZATION OF COMFORT MATERIALS : A CLIMATE ANALYSIS OF HIGH RESILIENCE FOAM IN MICRO-CLIMATE CONDITIONS
University essay from Mälardalens universitet/Framtidens energiAbstract : Currently, it is widely recognised that the operational energy consumption of most building types currently outweighs their embodied energy by some margin. However, as we make dramatic increases in energy efficiency the embodied energy of the materials and components that we use will become proportionally larger and may account for a substantial proportion of the energy associated with buildings in the future. READ MORE
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15. MICROCLIMATE FRAMES FOR PAINTINGS ON CANVAS A literature review with a case study from Nationalmuseum
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvårdAbstract : The use of microclimate frames for paintings has become more common in the past decades, and it is a good way of protecting climate sensitive paintings during transport, loans, and exhibitions. This study is a literature review that aims to describe the overall practice of mounting canvas paintings in microclimate frames, as well as describe practices at Nationalmuseum, Sweden’s largest art gallery, in more detail. READ MORE
