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Woody species in the urban schoolyards in West Africa Sahel cities in Niger: diversity and benefits for green schools
Urban schoolyards are essential in biodiversity conservation; they provide numerous ecosystem services to students, school managers, and the city...
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Analysis of urban sprawl dynamics using machine learning, CA-Markov chain, and the Shannon entropy model: a case study in Mbombela City, South Africa
Over half of the world’s population resides in urban areas. We anticipate that this pattern will become more evident, notably in South Africa....
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Timber and Forestry in Papua New Guinea: Still no Publicly Available Forest Inventory Data or Growth-and-Yield Tables Despite Google Earth, Microsoft Cloud, NGOs, International Development Aid, REDD, Satellites and Drones Applied Last Decade for a Science-Based Forestry
The largest intact virgin rainforest blocks in the Pacific are located in Papua New Guinea (PNG). They are recognized as world-relevant carbon sinks...
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Exploring the Spatial Pattern of Urban Forest Ecosystem Services based on i-Tree Eco and Spatial Interpolation: A Case Study of Kyoto City, Japan
Urban forest, as an essential urban green infrastructure, is critical in providing ecosystem services to cities. To enhance the mainstreaming of...
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Current inequality and future potential of US urban tree cover for reducing heat-related health impacts
Excessive heat is a major and growing risk for urban residents. Here, we estimate the inequality in summertime heat-related mortality, morbidity, and...
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Urbanization and Sustainable Urban Planning
Urban sprawl, also known as urban encroachment, is a low-density, intermittent advancement model that includes complicated multiple interactions of...
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Harvesting of Agricultural Nutrient Runoff with Algae, to Produce New Soil Amendments for Urban and Peri-urban Olive Tree Agroforestry Systems in Southern Europe
Biomimicking has long been an interest of many scientific and engineering fields. When two ecosystems overlap, we have the famous edge effect. In...
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Effects of Street Tree Configuration on Urban Heat Island Mitigation
Urban Heat Island is increasingly affecting cities in develo** countries with rapid urbanization. Uncomfortable thermal environments are present in...
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Transformative low-carbon urban innovations: Operationalizing transformative capacity for urban planning
Cities can set in motion sustainability transitions through experimentation and innovation. To invest in and mainstream solutions that contribute to...
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Ecosystem services and impact of industrial pollution on urban health: evidence from Durgapur, West Bengal, India
Industrialization, urbanization, and rapid socioeconomic growth are the prime factors regarding development of an urban city. These activities...
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Network Models to Simulate Urban Metabolism
As noted in previous chapters, the metabolism of an organism or ecosystem operates through a network of connections between the organism’s or...
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Cooperative environmental governance in urban South Asia: implications for municipal waste management and waste-to-energy
This paper critically discusses the importance of cooperative environmental governance (CEG) for efficient waste management and waste-to-energy (WtE)...
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Evaluation of socio-economic-ecological environmental benefits of urban renewal projects based on the coupling coordination degree
The success of urban renewal projects is attributed to the synergistic development of economic, social, and environmental sustainability. However,...
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Accumulation analysis and overall measurement to represent airborne toxic metals with passive tree bark biomonitoring technique in urban areas
Authorities have long proved the utility of bioindicators in monitoring the state of environmental pollution. Some biological indicators can measure...
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Sustainable development of urban agglomeration based on material metabolism: a case study on Fujian Delta, China
As highly concentrated urbanized areas, urban agglomerations bear increasing resource depletion and environmental pressures, which threaten the...
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The Future of Urban Soils
Urban soils are a global resource which presents many challenges and opportunities for human populations in cities. This chapter addresses several of...
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The Urban Circularity Assessment Framework (UCAF): a Framework for Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning from CE Transitions in Cities
While several studies have been undertaken to understand the circular economy (CE) in cities, there needs to be a comprehensive framework...
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Urban Forest Planning and Policy in China
Urban forestsUrban forest, in various forms and sizes, have been recognized as an important component of urban landscapesUrban landscape for...
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Butea monosperma: a leguminous species for sustainable forestry programmes
Forestry and greening programs in urban area are faced due to lack of awareness about multiple roles/benefits of trees, especially their role in...
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Effects of tourism development on ecological network and function of sediment microbial communities in the urban wetland park
Tourism development influenced the ecological network of microbial communities.
Regulating mechanism of intra- and inter-domain networks was clarified.
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