The potential for reducing urban air temperatures and energy consumption through vegetative cooling

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  1994

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  Unknown venue

• Publication date

  1994-05-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.2172/10180633
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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