Virtual city models for assessing environmental equity of access to sunlight: a case study of Kyoto, Japan

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-13

  Yasumoto, Shinya ^a   Jones, Andrew ^a   Yano, Keiji ^b   Nakaya, Tomoki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

environmental equity; Japan; solar radiation; virtual city

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; EQUITY; GIS; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; MODELING; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SOLAR RADIATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; URBAN DESIGN; URBAN PLANNING;

HONSHU; JAPAN; KINKI; KYOTO;

EID: 84857274843     PISSN: 13658816     EISSN: 13623087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2011.570268     Document Type: Article

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