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Identifying mindsets for urban sustainability transformation: insights from Urban Labs
Increasing calls for transformation to address climate change and related challenges underscore the societal imperative to shift from mindsets that...
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Characterization of urban agriculture and farmers’ climate change adaptation: the case of Urban Wa, Ghana
Urban agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa has the potential to significantly improve urban food security and feed the underprivileged when promoted. In...
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Urban land use, land cover change and urban microclimate dynamics in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Land surface temperature (LST) increases and urban heat island (UHI) variability are the major urban climatology problems arising in urban...
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Assessment of urban-to-urban interaction and its impact on urban development: a study on a backward district of Eastern India
Rapid population increment of big towns, creation of numerous small-towns, increasing demand for better urban-related facilities from the big towns...
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Urban trees’ potential for regulatory services in the urban environment: an exploration of carbon sequestration
Urbanisation has emerged as a formidable challenge for urban policymakers, reaching unparalleled heights and unsettling the ecological equilibrium of...
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From urban ecology to urban enquiry: How to build cumulative and context-sensitive understandings
This paper positions urban ecology as increasingly conversant with multiple perspectives and methods for understanding the functions and qualities of...
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Utilization of urban agriculture to enhance urban sustainability: investigating people’s heterogeneous preferences for proximity to urban agriculture through a choice experiment
The purpose of this study is to investigate people’s preferences for the geographical distance between residential locales and two types of urban...
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Carbon emission reduction from the cooling effect of urban greenspace in the three urban agglomerations in China
Urban greenspace has the ability to cool the surrounding environment, thereby reducing energy consumption caused by the urban heat island effect and...
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Urban Nature Indexes tool offers comprehensive and flexible approach to monitoring urban ecological performance
We present the Urban Nature Indexes (UNI), a comprehensive tool that measures urban ecological performance under one standard framework linked to...
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Spatiotemporal assessment of the nexus between urban sprawl and land surface temperature as microclimatic effect: implications for urban planning
Rapid urbanisation has led to significant environmental and climatic changes worldwide, especially in urban heat islands where increased land surface...
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Is it healthy urban agriculture? Human exposure to potentially toxic elements in urban gardens from Andalusia, Spain
Different vegetable species and topsoils were collected from different urban gardens of Seville, Cordoba, and Huelva (South Spain) and from two small...
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The relational shift in urban ecology: From place and structures to multiple modes of coproduction for positive urban futures
This perspective emerged from ongoing dialogue among ecologists initiated by a virtual workshop in 2021. A transdisciplinary group of researchers and...
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Quantitative assessment and driving factors analysis of surface urban heat island of urban agglomerations in China based on GEE
The urban heat island (UHI) effect generated by the development of high-speed urbanization has become one of the major problems affecting the urban...
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Integration of urban science and urban climate adaptation research: opportunities to advance climate action
There is a growing recognition that responding to climate change necessitates urban adaptation. We sketch a transdisciplinary research effort,...
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Urban Environments
Urbanization has dramatically changed Earth’s surface. This chapter starts with a qualitative look at the impact urban expansion has on the...
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Urban resilience in China’s eight urban agglomerations: evolution trends and driving factors
Improving urban resilience (UR) and enhancing urban anti-risk ability are important foundations for promoting the high-quality development of new...
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Impact of urban expansion on ecosystem services in different urban agglomerations in China
Urban expansion has greatly impacted ecosystem services (ESs), with each stage of urbanization having a specific role in altering them. Exploring how...
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Combined Coagulation-Electrocoagulation Treatment of Urban, Peri-urban, and Textile Wastewaters: Process Evaluation and Sludge Setting Characteristics
Water is a crucial component in the multifaceted fight against climate change, which is causing the environmental discharge standards to be much more...
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Assessment of urban flood susceptibility and role of urban green space (UGS) on flooding susceptibility using GIS-based probabilistic models
With rapid urbanization, the green space in urban areas is replaced with impervious built-up areas, which increases the frequency of urban floods....
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Ecological monitoring of urban thermal field variance index and determining the surface urban heat island effects in Lahore, Pakistan
Lahore is the second major metropolitan city in Pakistan in terms of urban population and built-up area, making the city a more ideal place to form...
