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An Overview of Artificial Islands Growth Processes and Their Adaptation to Sea-Level Rise
The increase of artificial islands and land expansions in the water in the last years is significant. Approximately, 33,700 km2 of land has been...
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Artificial Intelligence: Definition and Background
If we want to embed AI in society, we need to understand what it is. What do we mean by artificial intelligence? How has the technology developed?...
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Coastal Tourist Destinations in Spain: Growth, Social Reaction and Answers – Practices for a Post-growth Scenario
In Spain, the coastline represents the most important tourist area, in terms of volume, market recognition, employment, businesses, territorial...
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Assessing the Current State of Science, Technology, and Innovation in Mauritius for Improving Economic Growth and Development
Science, technology, and innovation (STI) play a critical role in the socio-economic development of a country. Mauritius being a small island economy...
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Exploring the role of compactness in path-dependent land-taking processes in Italy
Land take, namely the conversion of natural land into impervious surfaces, is partly driven by path dependency, whereby dispersed settlements tend to...
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States’ Regulation of Artificial Intelligence
In this chapter, US states have been particularly aggressive in sharing responsibilities of governance with the federal government. In particular,...
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Islands and Sustainability
Concepts of sustainable development have become more subtle and complex, elaborated in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Definitions of...
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Analysing the fragile islandscape of Ritchie's Archipelago: understanding land use changes, biodiversity loss, and tourism impacts on both the ecosystem and islanders
This study aims to assess the spatio-temporal changes in land use and land cover within the Ritchie Archipelago islandscape by utilizing multi-date...
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The Integration of Traditional Knowledge and Local Wisdom in Mitigating and Adapting Climate Change: Different Perspectives of Indigenous Peoples from Java and Bali Island
Climate change has adversely affected the greenhouse warming, severely impacting different parts of the world. Indonesia is not an exception and is...
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Redefining Climate Policy and Economic Resilience in the Consuming World
Faced with the impacts of climate change and its resulting consequences on both societal liveabilityLiveability standards and economic drawbacks,...
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Metropolitan Dynamic in the Spanish Urban System. Two Decades of Cyclical Context and Crisis
This contribution provides conceptual and empirical references to understand of the growth and crises process of the Spanish metropolitan system. For...
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Urbicide or Suicide? Sha** Environmental Risk in an Urban Growth Context: The Example of Quito City (Ecuador)
The present article uses the literal definition of urbicideUrbicide, that is violenceViolence or destruction of a cityCities to evaluate the...
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Monitoring land use changes and its future prospects using cellular automata simulation and artificial neural network for Ahmedabad city, India
The urban sprawl is one of the potential threat for sustainable development. The present study has been carried out on Ahmedabad Municipal...
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Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and the Rise of Autonomous Smart Cities
The roles of technology in enhancing the performance and efficiency of cities are increasingly hailed as the Smart Cities’ model gains recognition...
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Islands and Sustainability
Concepts of sustainable development have become more subtle and complex, elaborated in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Definitions of...
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A Social Archaeometallurgy of Bronze Age Cyprus
As a major producer of copper throughout the Bronze Age (ca. 2400–1100 BC), the island of Cyprus assumed a key role in the social and economic...
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Development, Global Change and Food Security in Pacific Island Countries
While islands have been identified in numerous discourses as being highly vulnerable, food security was a cornerstone of many traditional Pacific...
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Emerging Trends in Cities of Tomorrow
The Fourth Industrial Revolution, which includes a range of technologies such as artificial intelligence, robotics, and biosensors, is already...
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Lessons from Rapa Nui (Easter Island, Chile) for Governance in Conditions of Environmental Uncertainty
The effectiveness of governance depends on the knowledge upon which decisions are based. Knowledge veracity is particularly significant when future...
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Aquaculture in the Ancient World: Ecosystem Engineering, Domesticated Landscapes, and the First Blue Revolution
Aquaculture is the world’s fastest growing food sector and accounts for more than 50% of the world’s fish food supply. The significant growth in...
