Environmental and Sustainability Indicators, 2023 As a vital component of urban green infrastructures, urban green space (UGS) provides essential ecological, recreational, and social-cultural services to urban residents.
Weiwei Lu +6 more
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Spatial accessibility and social inclusion: The impact of Portugal's last health reform [PDF]
, 2019 Health policies seek to promote access to health care and should provide appropriate geographical accessibility to each demographical functional group.
Ben‐Akiva M. E. +12 more
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Assessing Distributional and Perceived Equity of Urban Green Spaces in Qingdao’s Historic Urban Area
Buildings, 2023 Urban green spaces (UGSs) satisfy citizens’ physical and psychological demands and are considered an integral part of sustainable urban development. However, the distribution of UGS is often uneven, especially in historic urban areas with high building ...
Naibin Jiang +4 more
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A systematic approach for modelling quantitative lake ecosystem data to facilitate proactive urban lake management [PDF]
, 2013 Background: The management of the health of urban lake systems is often reactive and is instigated in response to poor aesthetic quality or physicochemical measurements, rather than from an overall assessment of ecosystem health.
Aaron N Wiegand +4 more
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Assessment of primary healthcare accessibility and inequality in north-eastern Kazakhstan [PDF]
, 2022 Out of the many aspects of health care, the concept of physical accessibility is a priority that not only encompasses availability of health care resources, but also requires that they are easily accessible for all.
Jamedinova, Ulzhan +3 more
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On the uncertainty of stream networks derived from elevation data: the error propagation approach [PDF]
, 2010 DEM error propagation methodology is extended to the derivation of vector-based objects (stream networks) using geostatistical simulations. First, point sampled elevations are used to fit a variogram model.
Hengl, T. +2 more
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Exploring high-end climate change scenarios for flood protection of the Netherlands [PDF]
, 2009 This international scientific assessment has been carried out at the request of the Dutch Delta Committee. The "Deltacommissie" requested that the assessment explore the high-end climate change scenarios for flood protection of the Netherlands.
Beersma, J.J. +19 more
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The Spine of the Cosmic Web [PDF]
, 2010 We present the SpineWeb framework for the topological analysis of the Cosmic Web and the identification of its walls, filaments and cluster nodes. Based on the watershed segmentation of the cosmic density field, the SpineWeb method invokes the local ...
Alexander S. Szalay +40 more
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Measuring Primary Health Care Accessibility in Mississippi State Using an Extended Kernel Density 2SFCA Method [PDF]
, 2015 The accessibility of primary health care is fundamentally important to people’s life quality and wellbeing. Based on the block group level 2010 census data from the U.S.
Zhang, Lijie
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An automated approach to enrich OpenStreetMap data on footways [PDF]
, 2022 Urbanization and the rising global life expectancy are shaping the 21st century, and an increasing number of the older and disabled population is expected, emphasizing the need of developing age-friendly and accessible cities for all.
Pude, Yannik
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