Urban sprawl poses significant challenges, including pollution, urban heat stress, and biodiversity loss, necessitating proactive solutions for climate adaptation and urban resilience. This study presents an integrated methodological approach to identify urban hotspots of combined environmental pressures in the Athens Metropolitan Area (AMA), a densely populated region experiencing heightened climate vulnerabilities. Utilizing...

The impact of climate change on the agricultural systems of three major islands in the Mediterranean basin, namely Sicily, Crete and Cyprus, was evaluated using a suite of specifically calibrated crop models and the outputs of a regional circulation model for Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) 4.5 and 8.5 downscaled to 12 km of resolution and tested for its effectiveness in reproducing the local meteorological data. Th...