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Nature-Based Disaster Risk Reduction of Floods in Urban Areas
Floods in urban areas have become more frequent globally, with catastrophic impacts. The cause is not only a natural event of extensive rain but is...
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Ensuring Ecosystem Service Provision of Urban Water Nature-Based Solutions in Infill Areas: Comparing Green Factor for Districts and SWMM Modeling in Scenario Assessment
AbstractThis study aims to explore the measurement of potential synergies between water management objectives and other ecosystem services generated...
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Nature-based solutions to enhance urban flood resiliency: case study of a Thailand Smart District
A Research through Designing approach was used to explore nature-based solutions (NbS) for flood management at the fluvial (regional) and pluvial...
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Scientific Map** of Research on Nature-based Solutions for Sustainable Water Management
Nature-based solutions (NBS), including the protection and restoration of ecosystems, can provide a major contribution to global sustainable water...
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Urban Design and Disasters
We can define urban designUrban design as the purposeful decisions and actionsActions which aim at establishing functionalFunctional and formal...
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Nature-based Solutions in Serbia: Implementation of Rain Gardens in the Suburban Community Kać
In recent years, the concept of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) is emerging in Serbia, in particular in the direction of overcoming the challenges in...
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Urban Design at Macro-Scale: Urban Design in a Seismic-Prone City
Here, in this chapter, urban designUrban design recommendations will be made for a region and cityCity which are prone to seismicSeismic riskRisk....
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Enhancing Urban Drainage Infrastructure Through Implementation of Low Impact Development Techniques
The global phenomenon of urban flooding has become a pressing issue for cities worldwide. Conventional strategies to alleviate flooding, such as...
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Sensitivity of urban heat island intensity to different urban surface descriptions over Warsaw
This study explores how urban land cover affects the formation of an urban heat island (UHI) over Warsaw, Poland. A high-resolution version of the...
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A framework for assessing social structure in community governance of sustainable urban drainage systems: insights from a literature review
The utilization of Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS) as Nature-based Solutions (NBS) holds significant promise for enhancing resilience...
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The Role of the Spatial Network in Urban Disaster Risk Variations: Reimagining the Notion of Spatial Vulnerability at the Urban Scale
The notion of “spatial vulnerability” is present in most disaster studies with a strong geographical connotation and accordingly is adopted at all...
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Disentangling Governance for Nature-Based Restoration Projects
After Typhoon Haiyan in 2013, the city of Tacloban in the Philippines was left decimated. Recovery funding streamed in from across the globe, but...
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Nature-Based Solutions for River Restoration in Japan
This chapter describes the range of nature-based solutions being implemented in Japan, with a focus on river restoration. In Japan, modern...
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Identification of Urban Growth Typology and its Association with Thermal Environment: A Study of Siliguri Urban Agglomeration, West Bengal, India
Rapid urbanization and consequent disappearance of vegetation cover and increase in impervious surface have accelerated the increase in land surface...
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Urban water system theory and its model development and application
The urban water system theory is an extension of the basin water system science on an urban scale, providing a new systematic solution for the...
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GIS-based spatial approaches to refining urban catchment delineation that integrate stormwater network infrastructure
Rapid urbanization and escalating climate change impacts have heightened stormwater-related concerns (e.g., pluvial flooding) in cities....
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Quantitative study on color characteristics of urban park landscapes based on K-means clustering and SD. method
The landscape color of an urban park is the carrier of urban culture and the embodiment of urban style since it is an advanced form resulting from...
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Groundwater Vulnerability Map** and Ancestral Systems of Water Galleries (Porto Urban Area, NW Portugal): A Design on Nature-Based Solutions
Groundwater resources are crucial to the settlement of populations, and their quantity and quality are essential to the development of urban areas....
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DRASTIC-Fm-URBAN index: an updated and reliable GIS vulnerability map** for the assessment of fractured rock media in urban areas
Fractured media hydrosystems sources are valuable worldwide for irrigation, water supply, and industrial purposes. Map** and evaluating intrinsic...
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Urban Solar Plexuses
In the city, there are anti-stress places that can restore a person's vitality—the places of the so-called urban solar plexuses. Each such point in...