Nina Schwarz

TL;DR: The results indicate that most UES studies have been undertaken in Europe, North America, and China, at city scale, but few study findings have been implemented as land use policy.

TL;DR: The ODD + D protocol may prove helpful for describing ABMs in general when human decisions are included and incorporates a section on 'Theoretical and Empirical Background' to encourage model designs and model assumptions that are more closely related to theory.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed urban form with respect to landscape metrics and population-related indicators for 231 European cities and found that four out of five European citizens live in urban areas, and urban form influences daily life and is an important factor for both quality of life and environmental impact.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared eleven different indicators for quantifying surface urban heat islands that were most frequently used in recent publications on remote sensing-based urban heat island assessments and found that the indicators individually reveal diurnal and seasonal patterns but show rather low correlations over time, and for single points in time, the different indicators show only weak correlations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a framework, MoHuB (Modelling Human Behavior), to facilitate a broader inclusion of theories on human decision-making in formal natural resource management models.