WARMER URBAN CLIMATES FOR DEVELOPMENT OF GREEN SPACES IN NORTHERN SIBERIAN CITIES

• Main Authors: Igor Esau, Victoria Miles
• Other Authors: Belmont Forum, Norwegian Research Council grant HIARC, Centre for Climate Dynamics grant
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Russian Geographical Society 2016
• Subjects: Siberia; traditional ecological knowledge (TEK); urban green spaces; satellite data analysis; MODIS; NDVI; Nadym; Tazovsky; Arctic; Polar Geography; taiga; Tundra
• Online Access: https://ges.rgo.ru/jour/article/view/114; https://doi.org/10.24057/2071-9388-2016-9-4-17-23

Modern human societies have accumulated considerable power to modify their environment and the earth’s system climate as the whole. The most significant environmental changes are found in the urbanized areas. This study considers coherent changes in vegetation productivity and land surface temperatu...