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Wetlands Preservation in Urban Areas
Environmental ecosystems, particularly wetlands, have a bearing toward mitigation and adaptation of climate change processes. With regard to urban...
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Citizen-Led Environmental Governance: Regulating Urban Wetlands in South America
Wetlands provide ecosystem services such as flood protection, improved water quality, and wildlife habitat, but are under attack in urban land-use...
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Urban Wetlands: Opportunities and Challenges in Indian cities—A Case of Bhubaneswar City, Odisha
Urban wetlands function differently than those in natural areas. In natural wetland, the water level is not changing rapidly until and unless natural...
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Impact of Rapid Urbanization and Changing Face of Wetland: A Case Study of Berhampore Municipality, Murshidabad, West Bengal (India)
Wetlands act as the kidney of environment because they supply water, control urban floods, recharge groundwater level and purify water. Recently...
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Systemic Urban-Wetland Interdependencies
Current predictions highlight major climate-related impacts on coastal cities around the world. At the same time, wetlands provide important services...
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Modeling land use/land cover transformations in Mahanadi River basin in Chhattisgarh, India: trends and future projections
The prediction of land use and land cover (LULC) patterns is essential for land use planning, natural resources management, and climate change...
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Built-in Flood Risk: the Intertwinement of Flood Risk and Unregulated Urban Expansion in African Cities
Urban flood risk is significantly shaped by ground conditions and the built environment, which are constantly modified and transformed by human...
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Local Governance and Wetlands Management: A Tale of Harare City in Zimbabwe
For years, urban scholars have underscored the value of pristine and functioning ecosystems, including urban wetlands, to human life. However, less...
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Development Elites, Impacted Communities, and Environmental Governance in Latin America
This special issue examines environmental governance, conceptualized as environmental protections, support for sustainable development, and the...
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Blue-Green Infrastructure in Managing Urban Water Resources
Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI) is a planned network of natural and semi-natural areas that utilise natural processes to improve water quality and...
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A New Imagination for Waste and Water in India’s Peri-Urban Interface
Cities are often seen as incubators for enterprise and innovation. However, in this urbanisation era, we seem to suffer from a lack of imagination on...
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Towards Zero Waste and the Circular Economy: Green Governance Remakes Seoul
Since the 1990s, Seoul has transitioned from a massively polluted and prodigious producer of urban waste to become a global leader in circular...
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Urban Green Space, Green Exercise and Health Outcomes: Evidence from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Urban green spaces (UGS) are freely accessible private, communal or publicly owned areas in urban settings covered with vegetation and wetlands...
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Saving Ecosystems
Ecosystems are under tremendous pressure due to the expansion of human population and urbanization. This is clearly evidenced by the extinction of...
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Tracing the roots of wetland degradation in India: a systematic review of anthropogenic drivers, ecological consequences and conservation strategies
India's wetlands, estimated to cover 15.26 million hectares, have experienced significant degradation due to human activities. Urbanization,...
