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Measuring tourists’ visual perception of gardens around Taihu Lake Rim area based on multi-source data

Journal of Environmental Engineering and Landscape Management
Tourists’ visual preferences are of paramount importance for the local garden environment assessment. However, the diversity of garden elements presents challenges in achieving uniform assessments.
Wenjie Liu, Rouran Zhang, Huan Li
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On Microclimatic Islands. The Garden as a Place of Intensified Thermal Experience

Les Cahiers de la Recherche Architecturale, Urbaine et Paysagère, 2019
Gardens have always been appreciated as places of particular microclimatic qualities. Seen within the broader context of Enlightenment, gardens can be conceived as places of intensified thermal experience and as man-made concentrations of climate. In the
Sascha Roesler
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Planting for healthy air: Urban biodiversity enhances natural chemical environments

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Cities urgently need nature to improve public health, support biodiversity, and increase resilience to climate change. Yet not all green spaces offer the same benefits. In this study, we show that more diverse urban plantings create richer “chemical environments”; subtle, naturally scented atmospheres formed by plant emissions that can influence how ...
Aurora Ruggeri, Fethi Ben Fraj, Gaetan Glauser, Gregory Röder, Ola Söderström, Sergio Rasmann   +5 more
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Social‐ecological signatures in plant species composition across Swiss cities and urban green space types

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Cities can harbor greater plant diversity than other ecosystems, yet how city sociocultural factors may determine differences in plant composition across equivalent urban green space types remains understudied. Here, we compare plant communities in five main urban greenspace types across three Swiss cities representing the country's French (Geneva ...
Joan Casanelles‐Abella, Sebastian R. Ruile, Ariel Bergamini, Gala Mona Louise Dädlow, Vivien Grothe, Bertrand Fournier, Kilian Perrelet, Marco Moretti   +7 more
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Increased utilitarian value of invasive species in regions with long invasion history may limit public engagement for invasion control

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Positive perceptions of invasive species can hinder effective management, especially if management efforts that are rooted in scientific theories are misaligned with local ecological knowledge. We documented local ecological knowledge about land invasibility as predicted by invasion biology theories. Participants with greater local ecological knowledge
Laurel Mael Philpott, Orou G. Gaoue
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A Study of Everyday Aesthetics and (De)Alienation in Wim Wenders’ Alice in the Cities

Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry
This article is a study of Wim Wenders’ Alice in the Cities (1974) where it attempts to explore the aestheticization of everyday images that Wenders weaves into the cinematic narrative of the film.
Zakia Kalam
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The possibility to reconcile the conflict between the preservation of synanthropic vegetation and the development of cities

Acta Agrobotanica, 2012
The impoverishment of synanthropic vegetation has been observed in Polish cities for at least half a century. It relates to both the decrease in the area of its occurrence and reduction in species diversity.
Ewa Trzaskowska
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Fragmentation Across Scales, Geography, and Climate Challenges in European Urban Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Research: A Bibliometric and Systematic Review

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT European urban climate change research lacks integration across scales, geography, and climate challenges, despite Europe's coordinated policy frameworks. Through a hybrid bibliometric and systematic review of 1528 studies (2010–2025) using Cortext Manager and PRISMA 2020 guidelines, this study maps the conceptual patterns, knowledge gaps, and
Isabela Pichardo‐Velázquez, Richard Dean Morales, Antonino Marvuglia   +2 more
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Understanding the Role and Expectations of Local Government Planners in the Contemporary Political Environment: A South Australian perspective

, 2013
The State of Australian Cities (SOAC) national conferences have been held biennially since 2003 to support interdisciplinary policy-related urban research. This paper was presented at SOAC 6, held in Sydney from 26-29 November 2013.
Leditschke, Anna (R20607), Butland, Rowena (R20134), Anna Leditschke, Rowena Butland, Rofe, Matthew W., Matthew W. Rofe   +5 more
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Glocal Regenerative Viticulture: Exploring Sustainable Winemaking Strategies in Europe

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The global wine industry is transforming due to climate change challenges. Glocalization is increasingly relevant in winemaking, where geographical and cultural diversity requires context‐specific solutions in the existing sustainability spectrum in viticulture.
Aleksandra N. Volkova, Ekaterina A. Ivanova, Aleksandr K. Vorobev, Flavio P. Martins, Michael E. Akim   +4 more
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