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Limit Land Take. A Matter of Thresholds?
Soil is a key element for achieving national and international sustainability objectives. However, the legislation in this field is still far from...
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Advanced Technological Approach for Risk Mitigation and Land Protection: The SICURA Project
The SICURA project: Smart House of Security Technology, aims to catalyze new business models driven by 5G technology, focusing on enhancing the...
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Map** Relations Transformation of Urban and Natural Landscape in Adriatic Cities Fostering Landscape Sustainability and Promoting Landscape Quality as Spatial Planning Objectives
The understanding of urban and natural landscape relation as a multidimensional process integrates spatial, functional, and perceptive dimensions,...
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Natural Cities and New Italian Urban Regions. The Role of Medium-Sized Urban Areas in Italy
The contribution intends to examine the concept of natural city, starting from the hypothesis that the administrative boundaries of cities and...
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Steering Net Zero Land Take Urban Growth. A Decision Support Method Applied to the City of Castelfranco Emilia, Italy
The primary aim of the research is to provide a flexible and easy-to-apply method which makes it possible to identify the most suitable areas to be...
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Green Infrastructure and Grey Infrastructure. Rehabilitation of Disused Infrastructure Assets as an Opportunity for Green Development for Cities
With climate change and extreme weather events resulting from it, a strong demand for urbanization due to a steadily increasing population, cities...
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SEEA and Ecosystem Services Accounting: A Promising Framework for Territorial Governance Innovation
ES rapidly was adopted by quantitative geographers and urban planners as an effective tool to deliver reliable spatial analysis on natural capital...
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Promoting Engagement and Inclusion: A Case Study on an Energy Community in Cagliari, Italy
In Italy, Energy Communities struggle to spread as they should, very few are active. Such communities can assume a central role in the development of...
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The Engagement of Small European Municipalities in Achieving the Climate Neutrality
Over the past two decades, European municipalities have been including in their local strategies energy and climate consideration, thereby develo**...
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Territorial Imbalances in the Post-pandemic Context: A Focus on Digital Divide in Italy’s Inner Areas
At EU level, geographical differences in terms of economic and social development can influence the quality of life (QoL). It is overly simplified to...
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Landscape Planning and Fragmentation: A Method for Classifying Rural Landscapes
In the last decades, safeguard and management of environment and landscape have been acknowledged as priority to recover degraded habitats and reduce...
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Group Model Building to Assess Local Knowledge of Nature Based Solution Implementation
Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) are increasingly adopted as measures for enabling climate change mitigation and adaptation, for reducing flood risks and...
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Nonlinear Programming Problems
When discussing optimization problems in economics, most cases, whether static or dynamic analysis, are attributed to nonlinear programming theory....
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Application to Economics
Eigenvalues and nonlinear programming, which are the title of this book, are both important tools or analysis in many fields. This chapter describes...
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Microclimate Characterization and Climate Risk Assessment of Agroforestry-Based Arabica Coffee Production
The shade plants regulate the microclimate of the coffee plants when integrated with or under pine, alnus, mango, and chayote. Significant reduction...
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Application of Satellite Remote Sensing Techniques to Identify Renewable Energy Sources for Agricultural Production and Energy Security in Lahendong, North Sulawesi, Indonesia: An Approach to Reduce Global Warming
Addressing the energy problem and the environmental damage caused by global warming requires a new, sustainable, and eco-friendly energy source. The...
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Physio-Climatic and Socio-Economic Suitability Assessment of Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD) Irrigation Water Management in Bangladesh
Alternate wetting and drying (AWD) irrigation system is a water-saving, methane emission-reducing, and cost-effective technique for rice cultivation...
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Remote Sensing Applications II: Climate Change Perspectives in Agriculture
This chapter concludes the book covering remote sensing applications with different analytical approaches for assessing the vulnerability and impacts...
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Assessment of Land Use Land Cover Changes and Prediction of Vulnerable Agricultural Land in River Basins of Bangladesh Using Remote Sensing and a Fuzzy Expert System
Land use land cover (LULC) assessment is a key process for the successful planning and proper management of land resources in riverine countries....
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An Assessment of Drought Stress in Tea Plantation Areas in Bangladesh Using Optical and Thermal Remote Sensing: A Climate Change Perspective
Drought is one of the deleterious climatic events that affects the productivity and quality of tea by limiting the growth and development of the...