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This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact

Trade-off --- Ecosystem-based management --- Multiple stressors --- Future scenarios

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Science: general issues --- Oceanography (seas) --- Trade-off --- Ecosystem-based management --- Multiple stressors --- Future scenarios

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The papers included in this Special Issue tackle multiple aspects of how cities, districts, and buildings could evolve along with climate change and how this would impact our way of conceiving and applying design criteria, policies, and urban plans. Despite the multidisciplinary nature of the collection, some transversal take-home messages emerge: • Today’s energy-efficient paradigms may lose their virtuosity in the future unless accurate estimates of future scenarios are used to design modelling platforms and to inform legislative frameworks; • Acting at the local scale is key. Future climate change adaptation will be implemented at the local level. Overlooking regional and local specificities will contribute to inaccurate and inefficient action plans. As such, the smaller scale will become vital in predicting future urban metabolic rates and corresponding comfort-driven strategies; • Energy poverty, heat vulnerability, and social injustice are emerging as critical factors for planning and acting for future-proof cities on par of micro- and meso-climatological factors; • Given that the impacts of climate change will persist for many years, adaptation to this phenomenon should be prioritized by removing any prominent barrier and by enabling combinations of different mitigation technologies. These topics will receive a global reach in few decades, since also developing and underdeveloped countries are starting their fight against local climate change, with cities at the forefront.

Research & information: general --- outdoor space --- thermal environment --- radiation environment --- wind environment --- heat-related mortality --- built environment --- urban resilience --- extreme heat --- climate change --- urban heat island --- heat stress from outside --- indoor environments --- tropics --- multi-level office buildings --- coastal cities --- Mediterranean climate --- urban heat island intensity --- sample year --- climate change adaptation --- barriers --- focus group discussion --- Tehran --- structural equation modeling --- urban management --- near-zero energy buildings --- future scenarios --- energy efficiency --- adaptive comfort --- long-term performance --- urban heat --- Australia --- UHI effect --- mitigation --- bushfire smoke --- indoor air quality --- filtration --- building envelope --- energy --- future weather data --- building energy performance --- thermal comfort --- statistical downscaling of climate models --- dynamical downscaling of climate models --- urban modelling --- cities --- buildings --- decarbonization --- urbanisation --- climate --- densification --- population --- temperature --- outdoor space --- thermal environment --- radiation environment --- wind environment --- heat-related mortality --- built environment --- urban resilience --- extreme heat --- climate change --- urban heat island --- heat stress from outside --- indoor environments --- tropics --- multi-level office buildings --- coastal cities --- Mediterranean climate --- urban heat island intensity --- sample year --- climate change adaptation --- barriers --- focus group discussion --- Tehran --- structural equation modeling --- urban management --- near-zero energy buildings --- future scenarios --- energy efficiency --- adaptive comfort --- long-term performance --- urban heat --- Australia --- UHI effect --- mitigation --- bushfire smoke --- indoor air quality --- filtration --- building envelope --- energy --- future weather data --- building energy performance --- thermal comfort --- statistical downscaling of climate models --- dynamical downscaling of climate models --- urban modelling --- cities --- buildings --- decarbonization --- urbanisation --- climate --- densification --- population --- temperature

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The management of natural resources can be approached using different data sources and techniques, from images registered by sensors of onboard satellites to UAV platforms, using remote sensing techniques and geographic information systems, among others. The variability of problems and projects to be analyzed, studied, and solved is very wide. This book presents a collection of different experiences, ranging from the location of areas of interest to the simulation of future scenarios of a territory at local and regional scales, considering spatial resolutions ranging from centimeters to hundreds of meters. The common objective of all the works compiled in this book is to support decision-making in environmental management.

Research & information: general --- secondary succession monitoring --- Natura 2000 threats --- tree detection --- archival photographs --- spectro-textural classification --- granulometric analysis --- GLCM --- alpine grassland --- fractional vegetation cover --- ground survey --- precision evaluation --- multi-scale LAI product validation --- PROSAIL model --- EBK --- crop growth period --- adaptive K-means algorithm --- heavy industry heat sources --- NPP-VIIRS --- active fire data --- night-time light data --- spatial autocorrelation --- spatial pattern --- spatial relationship --- natural wetlands changes --- associated influencing factors --- mainland China --- farmland abandonment mapping --- textural segmentation --- aerial imagery --- land use --- Poznań --- agent based modeling --- disaster management --- resource allocation --- high severity level --- first come first serve --- geographical information system --- bearing capacity --- analytic hierarchy process --- geographical survey of national conditions --- hotspot analysis --- topsis algorithm --- automatic identification system data --- 21st Century Maritime Silk Road region --- oil flow analysis --- maritime oil chokepoint --- Middle East Respiratory Syndrome --- seismic parameters --- GIS --- seismicity --- spatial analysis --- b-value --- earthquake catalog --- future scenarios --- prelude --- dynamic of land use --- Spatial Decision Support System, CORINE Land Cover --- remote sensing --- geographic information system

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The management of natural resources can be approached using different data sources and techniques, from images registered by sensors of onboard satellites to UAV platforms, using remote sensing techniques and geographic information systems, among others. The variability of problems and projects to be analyzed, studied, and solved is very wide. This book presents a collection of different experiences, ranging from the location of areas of interest to the simulation of future scenarios of a territory at local and regional scales, considering spatial resolutions ranging from centimeters to hundreds of meters. The common objective of all the works compiled in this book is to support decision-making in environmental management.

secondary succession monitoring --- Natura 2000 threats --- tree detection --- archival photographs --- spectro-textural classification --- granulometric analysis --- GLCM --- alpine grassland --- fractional vegetation cover --- ground survey --- precision evaluation --- multi-scale LAI product validation --- PROSAIL model --- EBK --- crop growth period --- adaptive K-means algorithm --- heavy industry heat sources --- NPP-VIIRS --- active fire data --- night-time light data --- spatial autocorrelation --- spatial pattern --- spatial relationship --- natural wetlands changes --- associated influencing factors --- mainland China --- farmland abandonment mapping --- textural segmentation --- aerial imagery --- land use --- Poznań --- agent based modeling --- disaster management --- resource allocation --- high severity level --- first come first serve --- geographical information system --- bearing capacity --- analytic hierarchy process --- geographical survey of national conditions --- hotspot analysis --- topsis algorithm --- automatic identification system data --- 21st Century Maritime Silk Road region --- oil flow analysis --- maritime oil chokepoint --- Middle East Respiratory Syndrome --- seismic parameters --- GIS --- seismicity --- spatial analysis --- b-value --- earthquake catalog --- future scenarios --- prelude --- dynamic of land use --- Spatial Decision Support System, CORINE Land Cover --- remote sensing --- geographic information system