Seeding the City: Land Use Policies to Promote Urban Agriculture [PDF]
, 2011 Outlines the health, environmental, and economic benefits of urban agriculture; considerations for developing relevant land use policy; legal tools for preserving plots, and other laws.
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Energy-efficient street lighting through embedded adaptive intelligence [PDF]
, 2013 Streetlights place a heavy demand on electricity usage, providing significant financial and environmental burdens. Consequently, initiatives to reduce energy consumption have been proposed, usually by turning off or dimming the streetlight. In this paper,
Lau, Sei Ping +2 more
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Advances in Meteorology, 2019 The thermal environment is closely related to human well-being. Diurnal and seasonal variations in surface urban heat islands (SUHIs) have been extensively studied. Nevertheless, interannual changes in SUHIs as well as in land surface temperatures (LSTs)
Yuanzheng Li +3 more
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Zoning of environmental conditions inside a wean-to-finish pig facility [PDF]
Engenharia Agrícola, 2016 Using geostatistics, this study aimed to analyze environmental conditions for wean-to-finish swines at 3 pm, during the most sensitive phases to thermal stress (growth/ finishing and finishing).
Juliana M. Massari +4 more
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Abolishing Exclusionary Zoning: A Natural Policy Alliance for Environmentalists and Affordable Housing Advocates [PDF]
, 2003 Exclusionary zoning limits residential development over large areas, and even entire cities or towns, to single-family housing on large lots. Exclusionary zoning is unfair to people and families of modest means (many of whom are members of racial or ...
Liberty, Robert L
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Environmental Impact Assessment Design for Integrated River Basin Planning Under “Three Lines and One Permit” Policy [PDF]
长江科学院院报[Objective] The "Three Lines and One Permit" (TLOP) eco-environmental zoning management system plays a crucial role in the development of ecological civilization in China.
BI Xue, YANG Meng-fei, YANG Yin-qun, LIN Guo-jun, TIAN Zhi-fu
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Impervious Surface Analysis for Durham Under Current and Build-Out Conditions In Support of Stormwater Management [PDF]
, 2007 An analysis was performed to determine current and projected impervious surface areas in the Town of Durham, New Hampshire with the purpose of generating data to guide the adoption of stormwater management practices in the Town.
Cedarholm, David +1 more
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Predictive Modeling of Surface Subsidence Considering Different Environmental Risk Zones
Advances in Civil EngineeringInsufficient knowledge and control of the surrounding environmental risks in the process of subway tunnel construction will lead to different degrees of surface settlement during construction, and it is of practical significance to grasp the impact of ...
Yunsong Li +4 more
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Shrinking for Survival: Integrating Degrowth Principles into Texas Zoning Regulations
Urban ScienceThe degrowth movement is gradually gaining recognition within North American urban planning, but its influence and application remain limited. Most degrowth-oriented initiatives have remained at a small scale, mostly pertaining to communities and ...
Alara Yücel, Pamela Durán-Díaz
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PHYTOSOCIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION OF IHLARA SPECIAL ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION ZONE
Applied Ecology and Environmental Research, 2016 The aim of this study was to detect the syntaxa in the Ihlara valley vegetation which have not been previously phytosociologically assessed. Ihlara Valley is geographically located in Central Anatolia and in the Irano-Turanian phytogeographical regions. The study area is located within the B5 square based on the Grid System (Davis et al.
Kaya, O. F., Cansaran, A.
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