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Restoring Areas of Concern
This chapter reviews the development of the “areas of concern program” for the restoration of the Great Lakes Basin. For the purpose of illustrating...
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Some Other Important Areas of Concern and Their Analyses
The four AOCs examined here (Presque Isle in Erie, the Buffalo River, the Niagara River, and Toronto) provide lessons for the AOC methodological...
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Spatio-temporal analysis of land use/land cover dynamics in Abeokuta and environs, Southwestern Nigeria
Towards the drive for environmental sustainability and sustainable urban development, geospatial technology has been deployed to study land use/land...
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Between Greens and Grays: Urbanization and Territorial Destruction in the Sabana de Bogotá
This text discusses the concept of urbicideUrbicide, understanding it as a contradictory process in which the production of the modern cityModern...
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Population grid and location quotient of land cover to capture the urban-rural nature of labour market areas in Italy
Urban-rural classifications are relevant tools for the implementation of economic and social policies that put emphasis on urbanisation patterns....
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The ‘Wild’ Among ‘Us’ or the Non-human Other
The sanitised anthropocentric urban environments like the special economic zones are paradigmatic of contemporary sovereign designs that are...
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Spatial Cognition of Large-Scale Cultural Heritage Sites in China
In recent years, with a deepening understanding of heritage, a series of large-scale linear heritage sites like Cultural Routes, Heritage Canal,...
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Beyond Extreme: Heat Emergency and Water Insecurity for People Experiencing Houselessness in Phoenix, Arizona, USA During and After the Heatwave of 2023
The U.S. National Weather Service issues extreme heat warnings at 105 °F. The desert city of Phoenix, AZ, in the Southwest USA, regularly exceeds...
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Understanding the Urban Planning-Green Space Depletion Nexus: Insights from the Kwabre East Municipality, Ghana
Urban green spaces have multiple benefits but face intense pressure, particularly in rapidly develo** cities of sub-Saharan Africa. Efforts to...
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Wetlands in Depth: The Waterscapes of Bedfordshire, North Lincolnshire and Somerset
This chapter begins to interrogate the themes outlined in Chap. 1 by making use of data drawn from the...
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Concluding Chapter: Unravelling Entanglements in Ecology
This work and the vignettes on entangled ecologies throw thoughts on the evolving orders, represented contemporaneously by neoliberal state...
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Natural Heritage
Singapore's remarkable evolution into a garden city can be attributed to years of unwavering commitment and continuous efforts to embrace greenery....
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Emerging Approaches for Sustainable Urban Metabolism
Extensive urbanization with rapidly increasing human population leads to changes in urban environment specially land use pattern, energy budget,...
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Surface Water: The Fading Everyday Resource
Surface water is the water in the nation’s rivers, streams, creeks, lakes, wetlandsWetland loss, ponds, reservoirs, and all other collections of...
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Decentralized Water and Wastewater Systems for Resilient Societies: A Shift Towards a Green Infrastructure-Based Alternate Economy
Water sector reform is one of the cornerstone requirements of resilient cities in the face of global climate change and in meeting the commitments of...
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Ecotourism Attractions
In ecotourism, we learned in Chaps. 7 and 8 , that...
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Singapore Becoming a Blue-Green City Through Blue-Green Infrastructure
Singapore receives around 2,400 mm of rainfall per annum. Traditionally, the city-state mitigates flooding by channelling water into the reservoirs...
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Forschen durch postduales Entwerfen: Postduales Entwerfen. Gestalten sozio-natürlicher Verknüpfungen im Anthropozän
Ein Großteil der landschaftsarchitektonischen Praxis arbeitet immer noch mit dualistischen Leitbildern wie Stadt und Land oder Natur und Kultur. Das...
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Acquisition of disability after age 50 following extreme urban coastal flooding events in India
Extreme climate events are infrequently considered for older individuals’ health and wellbeing in low and middle income countries. The world’s first...
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Ohio’s Areas of Concern and Citizen Involvement
The four Ohio AOCs are managed by a centralized authority—the “Ohio Lake Erie Commission” headed by a single overall “AOC Administrator,” plus an...