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Environmental Fragility Zoning Using GIS and AHP Modeling: Perspectives for the Conservation of Natural Ecosystems in Brazil

Conservation, 2022
The degradation of natural ecosystems triggers global environmental, economic, and social problems. To prevent this, it is necessary to identify the aptitude of priority areas for conservation or use by considering land fragility from multiple ...
Luciano Cavalcante de Jesus França, Luis Filipe Lopes, Marcelino Santos de Morais, Gerson dos Santos Lisboa, Samuel José Silva Soares da Rocha, Vicente Toledo Machado de Morais Junior, Reynaldo Campos Santana, Danielle Piuzana Mucida   +7 more
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Conceptual Model for Integrating the Green-Blue Infrastructure in Planning Using Geospatial Tools: Case Study of Bucharest, Romania Metropolitan Area

Land, 2023
A green-blue infrastructure is essential for achieving the European Green Deal objectives and can be used to protect large cities and their metropolitan areas against urban sprawl.
Antonio-Valentin Tache, Oana-Cătălina Popescu, Alexandru-Ionuț Petrișor   +2 more
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Citizen involvement in flood risk governance: flood groups and networks

E3S Web of Conferences, 2016
Over the past decade has been a policy shift withinUK flood risk management towards localism with an emphasis on communities taking ownership of flood risk. There is also an increased focus on resilience and, more specifically, on community resilience to
Twigger-Ross Clare, Orr Paula, Brooks Katya, Saduaskis Rolands   +3 more
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Litter origins, accumulation rates, and hierarchical composition on urban roadsides of the Inland Empire, California

Environmental Research Letters, 2022
Urban areas are the primary source of human-made litter globally, and roadsides are a primary accumulation location. This study aimed to investigate how litter arrives at roadsides and determine the accumulation rate and composition of roadside litter ...
Win Cowger, Andrew Gray, Hannah Hapich, Jasmine Osei-Enin, Salvador Olguin Jr, Britney Huynh, Hinako Nogi, Samiksha Singh, Stanley Brownlee, Jonathan Fong, Trevor Lok, Gideon Singer, Hoori Ajami   +12 more
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Who Is Planning for Environmental Justice—and How?

Journal of the American Planning Association. American Planning Association, 2022
Problem, research strategy, and findings Environmental justice (EJ) seeks to correct legacies of disproportionately burdening low-income and Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) communities with environmental hazards that contribute to health ...
C. Brinkley, Jenny Wagner
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Multi-Variable Simulation Decomposition in Environmental Planning: An Application to Carbon Capture and Storage

Journal of Environmental Informatics Letters, 2019
Environmental decision-making commonly involves multifaceted problems that demonstrate considerable uncertainty. Monte Carlo simulation approaches have been employed in a variety of environmental planning venues to address these uncertain aspects ...
M. Kozlova, J. Yeomans
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Environmental justice implications of siting criteria in urban green infrastructure planning

Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, 2021
Green infrastructure (GI) has become a panacea for cities working to enhance sustainability and resilience. While the rationale for GI primarily focuses on its multifunctionality (e.g.
F. Hoover, Sara Meerow, Z. Grabowski, T. McPhearson   +3 more
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Evaluating the Vulnerability of the City of Jiroft Against Flood and Providing Protective Solutions [PDF]

جغرافیای اجتماعی شهری, 2016
According to UN reports, floods and storms have caused more damages to human settlements than any other natural disasters. Reducing the damages caused by flood became one of the major goals of urban development planning.
Aboozar Paidar, Amir Arsalan Sanjari
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Modeling, evaluation, and zoning of Marivan county ecotourism potential using fuzzy logic, FAHP, and TOPSIS [PDF]

Geographica Pannonica, 2019
Among all the diverse regions of Iran, Marivan is considered one of the touring poles in the country thanks to its unique views which play an important role in providing ecotourism potential.
Balist Jahanbakhsh, Heydarzadeh Hamideh, Salehi Esmail   +2 more
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Key Issues for Implementation of Environmental Planning Policy: Construction Management Practice

Sustainability, 2018
A plethora of regulatory environmental planning policies constrain on-site construction operations, to theoretically minimise negative environmental impact and create sustainable practice.
K. Maund, T. Gajendran, G. Brewer
semanticscholar   +1 more source