To combat climate change, a country needs to take part in the development of energy sources and the renovation of its energy infrastructure. Since, green energy production is frequently costly and dangerous, especially in its early stages, capital is one
recalling that off-site electrical transmission grids are also vulnerable to other weather-related events than tropical cyclones, as occurred to devastating effect with the 1998 ice storm in Canada12. When considering all weather-related causes of NPP outages between 2004 and 2013 that were reported ...
Climate change, at different scales, is already recognized as an emergency. To achieve the 1.5 °C goal, cities, which in the next years will assist to a further expansion worldwide, are requested to progress towards a climate urbanism. Nature-based Solu
In Canada, Valiquette L’Heureux and Therrien (2013) aim at assessing the main tendencies of the different dimensions of resilience within three major CI networks, i.e. transportation, energy, and telecommunication through a survey among hundreds of CI managers from governmental, community, and pri...
A report from Ontario, Canada, showed that residential sector emits 56% of PM2.5 emissions. Hence, during the lockdown, 28% of PM2.5 resulted from outdoor cooking using barbeques. However, NO2 and NOX both were lowered because of the reduction of automobiles (Adams, 2020). In amidst of...
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Storm surges that occur along low-lying, densely populated coastlines can leave devastating societal, economical, and ecological impacts. To protect coastal communities from flooding, return periods of storm tides, defined as the combination of the surge
Oceanweather Inc. (OWI) developed a tropical cyclone reanalysis hindcast for Verde Island Passage which included significant typhoons within the 1951–2016 period. Modelled parameters include significant wave height, peak wave period, direction, free surface elevation, wind speed and direction, and dept...
turn leads to national programmes and plans to provide resilient and cost-effective infrastructure. The NIC is one such body which provides evidence to the UK government, but there are many other programmes and plans in place globally, and examples from Japan, Australia and Canada are given ...
In recent years, many scholars worldwide have carried out research related to the relationship between the construction of rural dwellings and the indoor thermal environment in response to the issue of building sustainability. China’s rural revitalizati