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Plastic Waste Trade A New Colonialist Means of Pollution Transfer
This contributed volume takes a holistic view of the international waste trade and in doing so argues that the transfer of plastic waste from mainly...
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The Social Impacts of Climate Change in China over the Past 2000 Years
This book aims to illustrate how climate change had impacted the socio-economic development in the history of China, under the framework of food...
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Cyprus War, 1974 and Waqf Lands
Cyprus was transferred from the Ottomans to the British in 1878, under dubious conditions, right after the opening of the Suez Canal, primarily as a...
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Sustainability: A Behavioral Perspective
Human behavior plays a significant role in the deterioration of the environment, contributing to issues such as climate change and biodiversity loss....
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About the Garden: Which Figures and Which Reinterpretations Provide Answers to Contemporary Questions Without Betraying Its Meaning
The chapter questions the possible role of the garden – a place built with predominantly natural elements – in the contemporary era characterised by...
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Green Roofs as a Mainstreamed Nature-Based Solution Tackling the Challenge of Biodiversity Loss
Green roofs (GRs) belong to the third type of NbS, namely, the creation of new ecosystems synthetically defined as surfaces detached from the ground,...
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The Notion of Green Heritage and Integrated Programs of Sustainable Urban Regeneration: The Interplay Between General/Public and Individual Interests
This chapter aims to make a preliminary conceptual cleaning up of the elusive notion of “green heritage” as scattered throughout normative texts...
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Nature-based Wastewater Treatment Systems: An Overview of the Challenges of Small Capacity Plants in an Urban Environment
With the growing population and rapid industrialization, water shortage is a serious problem for mankind. Every solution that provides usable and...
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Complex Micro-meteorological Effects of Urban Greenery in an Urban Canyon: A Case Study of Prague-Dejvice, Czech Republic
This contribution explains and summarizes the latest findings on the positive and negative effects of greenery at the street level. The LES-based...
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Palestinians, a Nation of Refugees
Land is at the heart of the Palestinian conflict. Although the conflict has deep historical, emotional roots, dispossession and displacement of...
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Plantations and Chartered Companies: Land for Exploitation or God’s Gift?
In the age of European colonialism, land was the central focus of imperial penetration. For colonizers, land and natural resources in the tropics...
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Land in Economic Theory
Land, capital (including human and physical) and labor are factors of production, essential inputs enabling producers to organize production. Land,...
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Promoting Social Interaction in Urban Public Spaces: A Proposed Classification of Indicating Factors
Understanding social interactions plays an integral role in designing open public spaces in urban areas. The social exchanges made in open spaces...
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Walking Between Walls, Transformation of Dead Streets’ Design_Case Study Elsheikh Zayed City
Streets are more than just passageways for cars, they are valuable and vital public spaces that have a great impact on the livability and quality of...
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Preservation and Exchange the Saudi Cultural Identity Through the Interior Design of Arts and Crafts Centers
Arts are surrounded humans—whether they realize this or not—where they used to be involved in this creative process of building things into...
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Introducing “Future Cities: The Path to Sustainable and Creative Transformations”
Places are the face of the future. They represent the attraction pole for humanity, for communities ho** for a better life. They are catalysts for...
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The Adaptive Reuse of Old Buildings
This paper discusses the adaptive reuse of old buildings and the dilemma between absolute abidance to conservation and restoration principles and the...
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Study and Analysis of Hotels Established in Desert Natural Reserves
The Corona pandemic has significantly impacted tourism, prompting travelers to embrace eco-tourism and prioritize environmental preservation....
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The Adoption of Rapid Urban Development Approaches to Enhance the City’s Open Spaces
Due to rapid urbanization and the fast pace of urban development, several open spaces experience a lack of fulfilling the physical and social needs...
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Transformation of Residential Spaces Design After the Pandemic in Sultanate of Oman
In great crises, there are always opportunities. The pandemic COVID-19 led to many changes in buildings. In the Sultanate of Oman, users’ perceptions...