Sentences with phrase «urban and rural areas build»

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«Up until this moment, it is not about the roofing materials alone which are unsuitable but also our buildings both in rural and urban areas have become a serious challenge.

Working with volunteers, the researchers identified 15 feral colonies, living in trees or buildings without human management, and 24 colonies managed by beekeepers in urban, suburban, and rural areas within an hour's drive of Raleigh, N.C..

Surfaces such as asphalt roads and concrete buildings absorb and then radiate a lot of solar energy, which can leave urban areas 6 to 8 degrees Celsius warmer than rural regions.

These cats live in groups called colonies and are found in both urban and rural areas, occupying alleys and buildings, or making their home in fields and wooded areas.

Her interest areas are the power of public art as mediator between ecology, economics and society; the prioritization of community - based strategies in sustainable urbanization; and building rural - urban linkages in response to economic, environmental and population pressures.

This means that less energy is used up evaporating water, that less of the Sun's energy is reflected and that more heat is stored by buildings and the ground in urban than in rural areas.

In built - up urban areas the concentration of heat storing materials in buildings, roads, etc. such as concrete, bitumen, bricks and so on, and heat sources such as heaters, air - conditioners, lighting, cars, etc. all combine to produce a local «heat island»: a region where temperatures tend to be warmer than the surrounding rural land.

geometry: affects radiative, convective evaporative, and conductive heat transfer; urban geometries tend to selectively block or intensify winds, tend to impact the extent of greenspace, increase exposed surface area, change the sky view factor, add overall heat capacity when compared to rural areas; example — «The canyon structure that tall buildings create enhances the warming.

Urban Heat Island profile Image from Lawrence Berkeley Labs From the UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON Spring comes sooner to urban heat islands, with potential consequences for wildlife Urban - dwelling plants around the globe typically get a head start on the growing season compared to their rural counterparts because of the urban heat island effect, the phenomenon in which cities tend to be warmer than nonurban areas due to their plethora of built surfaces — made of concrete, asphalt and more — and scarcity of vegetaUrban Heat Island profile Image from Lawrence Berkeley Labs From the UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON Spring comes sooner to urban heat islands, with potential consequences for wildlife Urban - dwelling plants around the globe typically get a head start on the growing season compared to their rural counterparts because of the urban heat island effect, the phenomenon in which cities tend to be warmer than nonurban areas due to their plethora of built surfaces — made of concrete, asphalt and more — and scarcity of vegetaurban heat islands, with potential consequences for wildlife Urban - dwelling plants around the globe typically get a head start on the growing season compared to their rural counterparts because of the urban heat island effect, the phenomenon in which cities tend to be warmer than nonurban areas due to their plethora of built surfaces — made of concrete, asphalt and more — and scarcity of vegetaUrban - dwelling plants around the globe typically get a head start on the growing season compared to their rural counterparts because of the urban heat island effect, the phenomenon in which cities tend to be warmer than nonurban areas due to their plethora of built surfaces — made of concrete, asphalt and more — and scarcity of vegetaurban heat island effect, the phenomenon in which cities tend to be warmer than nonurban areas due to their plethora of built surfaces — made of concrete, asphalt and more — and scarcity of vegetation.