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Integrating Disaster Risk Reduction in Urban Planning—Southern Urban Area of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
The Southern Urban Area of Ho Chi Minh City is one of the fastest-growing urban areas in Vietnam, with a rapidly increasing population. On the other...
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A Multi-Scalar Green Infrastructure Project for the Landscape Enhancement and Regional Regeneration of Media and Alta Valtellina
In the process of updating the Lombardy Region’s territorial and landscape planningLandscape planning tools, the Green InfrastructureGreen...
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Coupling coordinated development of the food-energy-water nexus and its relationship with landscape ecological security in China from a regional perspective
AbstractClosely related to each other, food, energy, and water (FEW) restrict regional sustainable development as three basic needs for human...
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Urban Regeneration and Green Spaces System: São Paulo Metropolitan Area
This paper aims to reflect about urban green spaces role as an important regeneration element to restore urban landscapes in a decline process. The...
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Modelling Urban Microclimates
A microclimateMicroclimate refers to a distinctive climate of a small-scale area, such as a garden, park, valley, or part of a city. Urban...
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Biotic Homogenization and Rewilding of Urban Greening
Cities have become the main abodes for humans, and landscape plant species with their notable influence on the quality of life, are important...
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Urban Thermal Environment Under Urban Expansion and Climate Change: A Regional Perspective from Southeast Asian Big Cities
Southeast Asia (SEA) is a hotspot of rapid urbanisation and climate change, which is supposed to influence millions of people. They altogether...
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Balancing wind power deployment and sustainability objectives in Swedish planning and permitting
BackgroundWind power is a critical renewable energy technology in efforts to achieve the global climate targets. However, local impacts do occur,...
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Urban Flood Resilience
FloodsFlood threaten citiesCity in various forms whose magnitude and frequency are likely exacerbated by climate changeClimate change and increasing...
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The Urban Riverfront Greenway: A Linear Attractor for Sustainable Urban Development
The strategy for sustainable mobility of December 2020 by the European Commission defines the alignment of the transport sector with the European...
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Urban Green Spaces for Environmental Sustainability and Climate Resilience
Urban green spaces (UGSs) act as a comprehensive tool for environmental sustainability, regulating the urban ecosystem services and microclimatic...
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Urban Green Infrastructure
Urban greeningUrban greening is on rise worldwide due to its wide-ranging direct and indirect benefits. These direct benefits can span from working...
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Predictive Modelling in Urban Environments
Urban problems (e.g. turbulent flows, chemical reactions, radiation, heat exchange and interaction between the physical processes) typically have...
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Global Cities’ Plans to Mitigate Urban Heat Islands Effect Exploiting Urban Green Coverage
This chapter presents the urban green coverage (UGC) plans of six global cities: Chicago (the USA), Curitiba (Brazil), Stuttgart (Germany), Tokyo...
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Inclusive Sustainable Urban Design Using the Owerri Urban Village, Imo State Nigeria
Urban settings many a time seem to disadvantage the indigenous and vulnerable people. Owerri is not left out in this problem. Owerri ‘Nchi-Ise’ is an...
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Unfolding the Aniene River in Peri-Urban Rome. From Conflicts to Opportunities for a Sustainable Strategy
Over the last decade, spatial planning toolsPlanning tools have been embedding Green InfrastructureGreen infrastructure with the aim to preserve...
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Greening the Urban Environment: An Integrated Approach to Planning Sustainable Cities—The Case of Greater Cairo
This chapter investigates the concept of greening the urban environment as an integrated approach to realizing sustainable urban development,...
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Green Infrastructure Development as a Basis for Climate-Resilient Planning
As climate change accelerates, so the need grows for green infrastructure that will contribute to the resilience and habitability of urban spaces....
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Urban Heat Adaptation and a Smart Decision Support Framework
Many cities are significantly threatened by urban heat challenges, which are the combined result of heatwaves and urban heat island (UHI)....
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The Determinants of Sustainability of Urban Regeneration. An Empirical Analysis in the Apulian Context
In recent years, the integration of sustainability principles in urban planning has become increasingly important. The growing attention to economic,...