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Seyed Ali Alavi, Saeed Esfandi, Amir Reza Khavarian-Garmsir, Safiyeh Tayebi, Aliakbar Shamsipour and Ayyoob Sharifi
This research aims to analyze the relationship between environmental justice and urban green space connectivity in Tehran, Iran. The evaluation of green space connectivity in this study is conducted through two distinct cost layers: one aimed at enhancin...
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Renata Vceláková, Marcela Prokopová, Vilém Pechanec, Lenka ?terbová, Ondrej Cudlín, Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed Alhuseen, Jan Purkyt and Pavel Cudlín
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Cordelia Onyinyechi Omodero and Philip Olasupo Alege
Local governments are the motors that drive the lives of their citizens. There is no human individual who does not live under a local government, regardless of where they are situated. This is why every local authority?s environment requires a wide range...
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Leila Mosleh, Masoud Negahban-Azar and Mitchell Pavao-Zuckerman
Urban areas are increasingly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Stormwater Green infrastructure (SWGI) is seen as an approach to increase the climate resilience of urban areas, because they can buffer precipitation changes brought on by climate...
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Qinqin Liu, Yichen Tian, Kai Yin, Feifei Zhang, Huiping Huang and Fangmiao Chen
Assessing the supply and demand of urban green space (UGS) ecosystem services (ESs) can provide relevant insights for urban planning. This study presents an analysis method for the spatial distribution of UGS ES supply and demand at administrative unit a...
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German Rivillas-Ospina, Mauro Antonio Maza-Chamorro, Sebastián Restrepo, Debora Lithgow, Rodolfo Silva, Augusto Sisa, Andrés Vargas, Juan Pablo Sarmiento, Juan Caes, Marianella Bolivar, Roberto Del Rio, Erick Campo, Diego Casas and Dennis Rudas
From a comprehensive diagnosis of the associated basins, islands, and wetlands of the coastal lagoon system of Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta, Colombia, this work describes feasible options for the recovery of its ecosystem?s health and ecological resilie...
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Alida Alves, Jose Patiño Gómez, Zoran Vojinovic, Arlex Sánchez and Sutat Weesakul
An important increase in flood risk levels is expected in future decades in many areas around the globe. In addition, the traditional approaches for flood management offer options with low sustainability. As a response, the use of non-traditional drainag...
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José G. Vargas-Hernández, Karina Pallagst, Justyna Zdunek-Wielgolaska
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This paper aims to the review the existing literature on some important features of urban green spaces such as the components, functions, services, community involvement, initiatives and actions from an ecosystem perspective. The analysis begins from the...
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Sara Barron, Stephen R.J. Sheppard and Patrick M. Condon
This paper describes a research project exploring future urban forests. This study uses a Delphi approach to develop a set of key indicators for healthy, resilient urban forests. Two groups of experts participated in the Delphi survey: International acad...
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Hélène Littke
Urban green spaces are essential elements of cities, contributing to the quality of life in numerous ways. However, densification strategies create a complex relationship between urban development and the quality, as well as the quantity, of urban green ...
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Andrea M. Bassi, Louise A. Gallagher and Hanna Helsingen
This review of the study ?Road to Dawei?, conducted by WWF Greater Mekong, seeks to assess economic, social and environmental impacts of road construction between Kanchanaburi, Thailand and Dawei, Myanmar. It also aims to identify relevant Green Economy ...
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Guglielmo Pristeri, Francesca Peroni, Salvatore Eugenio Pappalardo, Daniele Codato, Antonio Masi and Massimo De Marchi
The rising environmental issues on contemporary cities urgently calls for sustainable planning policies. Implementation of nature-based solutions, ecosystem services, and green infrastructures associated to green spaces management is at present of paramo...
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Yangang Xing, Phil Jones and Iain Donnison
Nature has provided humankind with food, fuel, and shelter throughout evolutionary history. However, in contemporary cities, many natural landscapes have become degraded and replaced with impermeable hard surfaces (e.g., roads, paving, car parks and buil...
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Ursula Loret de Mola, Brenton Ladd, Sandra Duarte, Nils Borchard, Ruy Anaya La Rosa and Brian Zutta
Latin American (LA) megacities are facing enormous challenges to provide welfare to millions of people who live in them. High rates of urbanization and limited administrative capacity of LA cities to plan and control urban growth have led to a critical d...
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Victor Ruiz-Aviles, Anthony Brazel, Jonathan M. Davis and David Pijawka
Extreme heat threatens desert city residents throughout the hot summer months and inhibits outdoor recreation and activity. Ecosystem services provide various benefits for urban environments. For desert cities, few are more critical than microclimate reg...
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Zoran Vojinovic, Weeraya Keerakamolchai, Sutat Weesakul, Ranko S. Pudar, Neiler Medina and Alida Alves
The present paper describes a methodological framework that combines ecosystem services (flood protection, education, art/culture, recreation and tourism) with economic analysis for selection of multifunctional measures for flood resilience. The framewor...
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Giulio Castelli, Cristiano Foderi, Boris Hinojosa Guzman, Lorenzo Ossoli, Yandery Kempff, Elena Bresci and Fabio Salbitano
The expansion of cities is an emerging and critical issue for the future of the planet. Water is one of the most important resources provided by urban and peri-urban landscapes, as it is directly or indirectly connected with the quality of the environmen...
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Manish Ramaiah, Ram Avtar and Pankaj Kumar
Rising land surface temperature (LST), urban heat island (UHI) effects, and stress on surface-, processed-, potable-, and ground-water resources are some undesirable ecological changes due to rapid urbanization. Treating and reusing city-generated wastew...
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W.K.D.D. Liyanage,N.S. Gamage,G.D.C Pushpa Kumara,L Xulong
Large scale clearing of natural forests for human settlements as well as in the form of tea, rubberand cinnamon plantations resulted forest fragmentation in most natural ecosystems in the wet zone of SriLanka which posed massive threats to both nature an...
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Hui Xu and May Wu
Green water is vital for the terrestrial ecosystem, but water resource assessment often focuses on blue water. In this study, we estimated green water availability for major crops (i.e., corn, soybean, and wheat) and all other users (e.g., forest, grassl...
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