Special Issue on Urban Climate Environment Study

Special Issue on Indian Ocean Climate*

In the past, great advances in Indian Ocean research have emerged after expeditions by research vessels such as the Discovery in the 1930s or international cooperative observational programs such as the International Indian Ocean Expedition (1960–65) and ship surveys during the World Ocean Circulation Experiment in the mid-1990s. However, Saji et al. (1999) and Webster et al. (1999), in two let...

Introduction Special Issue on “ Sustainable Urban Design ”

Urbanization is one of the great challenges of our time and unchecked haphazard urbanization is a serious threat both to the environment and social and economic balance. In order to meet global sustainability targets, rapid urban growth must be channelled into environmentally friendly, sustainable and liveable urban environments. Thus, this special issue focuses on sustainable urban design whic...

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Editorial for the Special Issue on IT and Climate Change

A Selection of Papers from the Carbon-Centric Computing National Research Summit held at the University of Wollongong, November 24, 2008

Special issue on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design

This special issue celebrates five annual SimAUD (Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design) Symposia held as part of the SpringSim conferences. Nine original articles are included in this special issue, covering a broad spectrum of theory and case studies of simulation applied to the built environment. The authors, researchers and practitioners, as well as architects and engineers, were sel...