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ESPESThis article examines the aesthetic dimensions of prolonged Russian aerial terror in Ukrainian rear cities. Moving beyond the dominant paradigm of terror as spectacle, it argues that contemporary Ukrainian experience is shaped by what Tina Polek terms ...
Yevheniia Butsykina
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International Journal of Health Geographics, 2021 Background Urban parks are critical environmental resources in which adolescents engage in physical activity (PA). Evidence on the associations between park environmental characteristics and park-based PA in adolescents is mixed, particularly for high ...
Ru Zhang +5 more
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Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Urban expansion can substantially reshape ecosystem structure and functioning, especially in ecologically fragile Karst landscapes. Clarifying how ecosystem health (EH) responds to urbanization and identifying the factors that drive spatial variation in EH are important for regional sustainability.
Jinlong Hu, Zhenhong Bin, Yingxue Wang
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Learning from cities with typical mobility: insights from cities with typical transport profiles in England and Germany [PDF]
Transport research often focuses on case studies of cities that are in some way exceptional in terms of their commitment to and investment in sustainable transport (public transport, walking and cycling) and the patterns of travel of their residents ...
Hicks, Charlie +6 more
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Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Understanding the relationships among land degradation, ecosystem functioning and human well‐being is essential for conserving tropical high‐mountain ecosystems. This study examined the relationships among land degradation, Cultural Ecosystem Services (CES), ecosystem disservices (EDS) and visitor perceptions at Laguna Colorados in the Sumapaz
Victor Fabian Forero Ausique +4 more
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Determination of Factors Influencing Users’ Satisfaction with Urban Green Open Spaces in a sub-Sahara African City – Evidence from Enugu, Nigeria [PDF]
African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and LeisureThis study determined the factors that influence urban green open space users’ satisfaction with open spaces in Enugu urban, south-east Nigeria. The data were derived from a questionnaire survey of 394 open space visitors and analyzed using descriptive ...
Obinna UBANI +3 more
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Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines how a local environmental NGO in southern China transformed Guantouling Hill, once a prominent poaching hotspot along the East Asian–Australasian Flyway, into a recognised model of community‐based biodiversity conservation.
Zheng Lin, Miao Chen
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Towards the Sustainability of Urban Development
Problemy Ekorozwoju, 2013 The paper concerns the social ecology of the city. It shows the different types of threats which metropolitan environment creates for citizens: lifestyle, social dissonance, security, management, enslavement, architectural weariness, identity ...
Wiesław Sztumski
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Mokslas: Lietuvos Ateitis, 2013 Recently wide process of urbanisation and migration of inhabitants from rural areas to large cities occurs in Latvia. The proportion of green areas in urban territories is decreasing with time, therefore it is important to maintain the existing greenery ...
Maija Jankevica
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