Spatial Variation of Thermal Conditions in Athens Metropolitan Area, Greece by Katerina Pantavou, Vassiliki Kotroni, Kostas Lagouvardos

“…This study aims to examine the thermal conditions in Athens metropolitan area, Greece. Hourly data from 15 stations of the Automatic Weather Station Network of the National Observatory of Athens (2010–2021) were used to estimate the Net Effective Temperature (NET) and the Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI). …”
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Air pollution by automative source in urban centres, with reference to Athens metropolitan area / by 178274 Mukhopadhyay, Ahangjit

Urban Quality of Life: Spatial Modeling and Indexing in Athens Metropolitan Area, Greece by Antigoni Faka, Kleomenis Kalogeropoulos, Thomas Maloutas, Christos Chalkias

“…The proposed methodology, after its theoretical documentation, is implemented in Athens Metropolitan Area, Greece. For the evaluation of Urban Quality of Life, a complex index is constructed by using multicriteria analysis. …”
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Economic recession and emergence of an HIV-1 outbreak among drug injectors in Athens metropolitan area: a longitudinal study. by Dimitrios Paraskevis, Georgios Nikolopoulos, Anastasios Fotiou, Chrissa Tsiara, Dimitra Paraskeva, Vana Sypsa, Marios Lazanas, Panagiotis Gargalianos, Mina Psichogiou, Athanasios Skoutelis, Lucas Wiessing, Samuel R Friedman, Don C D E S Jarlais, Manina Terzidou, Jenny Kremastinou, Meni Malliori, Angelos Hatzakis

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Using a Spatio-Temporal GIS Database to Monitor the Spatial Evolution of Urban Flooding Phenomena. The Case of Athens Metropolitan Area in Greece by Michalis Diakakis, Aggelos Pallikarakis, Katerina Katsetsiadou

“…This work focuses on the spatial evolution of urban flooding phenomena in Athens metropolitan area, in Greece. The study examines the locations of flood-related damages and fatalities in Athens in 1880–2010, in comparison with the city’s evolution, to identify possible changes in their spatial distribution. …”
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Dispensing of antibiotics without prescription in the metropolitan area of Athens, Greece, in 2021—Can new legislation change old habits? by Ioannis Kopsidas, Lydia Kokkinidou, Dioni Pinelopi Petsiou, Eleni Kourkouni, Christos Triantafyllou, Grammatiki-Christina Tsopela, Theoklis Zaoutis

“…Setting: The study included 110 pharmacies in the greater Athens Metropolitan area. Methods: Volunteer collaborators visited 110 pharmacies in the greater Athens Metropolitan area in December 2021 and January 2022. …”
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Residential and school segregation as parameters of educational performance in Athens by Thomas Maloutas, Stavros Spyrellis, Andromachi Hadjiyanni, Antoinetta Capella, Despoina Valassi

“…The paper explores the relation of educational performance with social and urban inequalities in the Athens Metropolitan Area during the 2000s. It draws on discussions about education as a mechanism of social reproduction and on work about education inequalities in Greece, and in particular in Athens, where a socially stratified secondary education –compared to the rest of the country– leads to a rather open, but at the same time socially unequal higher education. …”
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Behavior and trends for Zn in Saronikos Gulf by Chalkiadakis O., Dassenakis M., Paraskevopoulou V., Lydakis-Simantiris N.

“…The Saronikos Gulf, is directly influenced by the Athens metropolitan area. The operation of the Wastewater Treatment Plant of Athens situated on the small island of Psitalia, in 1995, was considered to be the turning point in the efforts of de-pollution of the gulf. …”
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Living Collection of Flora Graeca Sibthorpiana by Sophia Rhizopoulou, Alexander Lykos, Pinelopi Delipetrou, Irene Vallianatou

“… The results of a survey of vascular plants illustrated in the 19th-century publication Flora Graeca Sibthorpiana (FGS) and grown in Diomedes Botanic Garden (DBG) in Athens metropolitan area in Greece reveal a total number of 274 taxa belonging to 67 families, using the Raunkiaer system of categorising plants by life form (Raunkiaer, 1934). …”
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Trends of Social Polarisation and Segregation in Athens (1991–2011) by Thomas Maloutas, Hugo Botton

“…This article investigates social and spatial changes in the Athens metropolitan area between 1991 and 2011. The main question is whether social polarisation—and the contraction of intermediate occupational categories—unevenly developed across the city is related to the changing of segregation patterns during the examined period. …”
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On lifestyle trends, health and mosquitoes: Formulating welfare levels for control of the Asian tiger mosquito in Greece. by Antonios Kolimenakis, Kostas Bithas, Dionysis Latinopoulos, Clive Richardson

“…In the case of the Athens metropolitan area, an invasive mosquito species-the Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus)-has spread widely in the last decade. …”
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Evaluation of a Commercial Aerosol Lidar Scanner for Urban Pollution Monitoring by Vassilis Kostopoulos, Ourania Soupiona, Georgios Georgoussis, Thanasis Georgiou, Anna Kampouri, Eleni Drakaki, Vasilis Amiridis

“…Potential synergistic use with inversion modeling techniques and dispersion models to support an advanced warning system for the population and local authorities of the Athens metropolitan area is also discussed.…”
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An Index-Based Method to Assess the Resilience of Urban Areas to Coastal Flooding: The Case of Attica, Greece by Charalampos Nikolaos Roukounis, Vasiliki K. Tsoukala, Vassilios A. Tsihrintzis

“…The framework is tested in the southwest waterfront of the Athens Metropolitan Area in Greece. The study identified that around 25% of the coastal area could be at risk of coastal flooding in the upcoming years, including areas in both the metropolitan and suburban environments. …”
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Mapping of Coastline Changes in Athens Riviera over the Past 76 Year’s Measurements by Hariklia D. Skilodimou, Vasileios Antoniou, George D. Bathrellos, Eleni Tsami

“…The adjacent coastal regions to Athens metropolitan area illustrate the highest modifications in the coastline. …”
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The geographical dimension of income and consumption inequality by Yannis Psycharis, Thomas Georgiadis, Panagiotis Nikolopoulos

“…Furthermore, the economic crisis increased income inequality in Athens and in the rest of the country, while consumption expenditure inequality increased in the Athens metropolitan area only. Finally, the distance between socio-economic groups, which stands as a measure of the degree of social polarization, increased during the economic crisis. …”
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Perceptions of urban green infrastructure in two contrasting municipalities of the metropolitan area of Athens, Greece by Paraskevi Karanikola, Thomas Panagopoulos, Stilianos Tampakis, Georgia Simoglou, Antigoni Tzelepi

“…The primary goal of urban parks and green spaces is to provide ecosystem services, not only for the visitors that use them but also for the entire urban population. Athens metropolitan area has a limited number of green spaces. …”
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Reconsidering Sustainable Mobility Patterns in Cultural Route Planning: Andreas Syngrou Avenue, Greece by Efthimios Bakogiannis, Charalampos Kyriakidis, Maria Siti, Eleni Floropoulou

“…Andreas Syngrou Avenue, initially designed as a six/eight-lane freeway located at the heart of the Athens metropolitan area, is one distinguished example. By focusing on this axis as a cultural route/cluster, the goal of this article is to elaborate on smart and sustainable mobility patterns for strengthening its cultural/recreational identity and increasing its attractiveness. …”
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A Cloud-Based Mapping Approach Using Deep Learning and Very-High Spatial Resolution Earth Observation Data to Facilitate the SDG 11.7.1 Indicator Computation by Natalia Verde, Petros Patias, Giorgos Mallinis

“…The research workflow was developed over the Athens metropolitan area in Greece using deep learning classification models for processing PlanetScope and Sentinel-1 imagery, employing freely-available cloud environments offered by Google. …”
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Socio-Spatial Inequalities, and Local Struggles for the Right to the City and to Nature—Cases of Urban Green Parks in Athens by Giannis Sotiriou, Chryssanthi (Christy) Petropoulou

“…The second park was “Antonis Tritsis”, which is the largest park in Athens Metropolitan Area and one of the few high green spaces in the western suburbs. …”
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Integrated Ecological Assessment of Heavily Polluted Sedimentary Basin within the Broader Industrialized Area of Thriassion Plain (Western Attica, Greece) by Panayota Makri, Demetrios Hermides, George Kontakiotis, Stergios D. Zarkogiannis, Evangelia Besiou, Hammad Tariq Janjuhah, Assimina Antonarakou

“…The Thriassion Plain, the Saronikos Gulf and Eleusis Bay, Western Attica in Greece, receive pressures from the enormous industrial activity, as well as the Athens metropolitan area and the Piraeus port. Therefore, it is considered as brownfield in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. …”
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