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Tugce Yanar, Sultan Kocaman and Candan Gokceoglu
Urban areas may be affected by multiple hazards, and integrated hazard susceptibility maps are needed for suitable site selection and planning. Furthermore, geological?geotechnical parameters, construction costs, and the spatial distribution of existing ...
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Anubhav Goyal,Joana Pereira
Pág. 79 - 98
Increase in water induced risks are realized with marginal settlements being more vulnerable due to limited adaptive capacity. The challenge put forward by climate change, in absence of adequate formal strategies, has forced the dwellers of marginal sett...
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D. Kirilova,N. Maslov,A. Reyn
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Recently, there has been a rapid development of information and communication technologies, in this regard, inequality between residents of urban and rural areas is increasingly felt. Bridging the digital divide is an important and time-consuming task. T...
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Satej Soman, Anni Beukes, Cooper Nederhood, Nicholas Marchio and Luís M. A. Bettencourt
The recent growth of high-resolution spatial data, especially in developing urban environments, is enabling new approaches to civic activism, urban planning and the provision of services necessary for sustainable development. A special area of great pote...
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Ellen Banzhaf, Henry N. Bulley, Justice Nana Inkoom and Sebastian Elze
This perspective paper highlights the potentials, limitations, and combinations of openly available Earth observation (EO) data and big data in the context of environmental research in urban areas. The aim is to build the resilience of informal settlemen...
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Torgrim Log, Vigdis Vandvik, Liv Guri Velle and Maria-Monika Metallinou
In recent years, severe and deadly wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires have resulted in an increased focus on this particular risk to humans and property, especially in Canada, USA, Australia, and countries in the Mediterranean area. Also, in areas not ...
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Manish Ramaiah and Ram Avtar
Urbanization offers several opportunities for the growth of economic, social, and technology sectors, offering benefits to society in terms of better living and healthcare facilities, as well as employment opportunities. However, some major downsides of ...
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The research presented in the work is linked to important production of data over 10 years of activity that allowed us to trace the configuration of Italian urban settlements in the 1950s. Starting from this information, the paper puts forward a uchronia...
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Isabella Aboderin, Megumi Kano and Hilda Akinyi Owii
A majority of urban residents in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and other developing regions live in informal settlements, or slums. Much of the discourse on slum health centres on younger generations, while an intensifying agenda on healthy ageing as yet lack...
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René Véron
Development and environmental issues of small cities in developing countries have largely been overlooked although these settlements are of global demographic importance and often face a ?triple challenge?; that is, they have limited financial and human ...
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Bardo Hörl, Heinz Dörr, Monika Wanjek, Andreas Romstorfer
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In most European congested urban areas the rail tracks of the 19th and 20th century serving locations of industry and goods stations were removed, transformed for public passenger transport, closed down or used for other purposes. The main reasons might ...
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