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An Exploratory Case-Study Approach to Understand Multifunctionality in Urban Green Infrastructure Planning in a South African Context

Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2021
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) intend to encourage liveable urban environments by 2030 with a main focus on strategies to achieve environmental and human well-being.
Burne Van Zyl, Louis G. Lategan, Elizelle J. Cilliers, Elizelle J. Cilliers, Sarel S. Cilliers   +4 more
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A Decision Support Tool for Green Infrastructure Planning in the Face of Rapid Urbanization

Land, 2023
Multifunctional green infrastructure, a key component of compact sustainable cities, is challenged by the pressures associated with rapid urbanization. In this paper, we present a method that uses remote sensing, GIS modeling and stakeholder engagement ...
Peta Brom, Kristine Engemann, C. Breed, M. Pasgaard, Titilope F. Onaolapo, J. Svenning   +5 more
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Changes and Characteristics of Green Infrastructure Network Based on Spatio-Temporal Priority

Land, 2022
With advancements in urbanization, natural lands are constantly being encroached upon by artificial impervious surfaces, leading to serious ecosystem damage.
Xifan Chen, Lihua Xu, Rusong Zhu, Qiwei Ma, Yijun Shi, Zhangwei Lu   +5 more
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Ecosystem service delivery by urban agriculture and green infrastructure – a systematic review

Ecosystem Services, 2022
The ability for urban ecosystems to deliver provisioning, regulating, cultural, and supporting services is vital for the health, sustainability, and resilience of urban environments.
D. Evans, N. Falagán, C. Hardman, S. Kourmpetli, L. Liu, B. Mead, J. Davies   +6 more
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A comprehensive study of the city's green infrastructure. The case of Yekaterinburg

Архитектон, 2023
The subject of the study is green city infrastructure. The content of the concept ‘green infrastructure’ is expounded, and the reasons why the term ‘green infrastructure’ is now mostly used.
Gushchin Alexander N., Divakova Marina N., Musaev Timur I.   +2 more
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Green Infrastructure as an Effective Tool for Urban Adaptation—Solutions from a Big City in a Postindustrial Region

Sustainability, 2023
Adaptation to climate change is becoming one of the main paradigms for how cities function and develop. The significant role of green infrastructure (GI) as a tool for cities to adapt to climate change is increasingly emphasized among practitioners of ...
M. Janiszek, R. Krzysztofik
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Influence of joint load-bearing behavior on the system-level response of reinforced-concrete truss-like beams: topology optimization basis

Frontiers in Built Environment
Structural optimization can reduce material use and embodied carbon in reinforced concrete (RC) beams, but the removal of concrete creates truss-like load paths in which local joint behavior may strongly influence stiffness, force redistribution, and ...
Iyad Ahmed, Thomas Mader, Peter Gappmaier, Mathias Hammerl, Sara Reichenbach, Matthias Neuner, Benjamin Kromoser   +6 more
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Green Innovation through Green and Blue Infrastructure Development: Investigation of Pollution Reduction and Green Technology in Emerging Economy

Energies, 2023
Green and blue infrastructure has gained importance for energy firms around the globe due to increased focus on addressing emerging challenges raised in the achievement of green innovation (GI) and the protection of the environment.
Abdelmohsen A. Nassani, Zahid Yousaf, Magdalena Radulescu, Daniel Balsalobre-Lorente, Hadi Hussain, Mohamed Haffar   +5 more
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Green infrastructure and its influence on urban heat island, heat risk, and air pollution: A case study of Porto (Portugal).

Journal of Environmental Management
Green infrastructure plays a fundamental role in mitigating the effects of urban heat island. Vegetation may trap particulates and absorb pollutants like ozone, thus improving air quality.
Hélder Silva Lopes, Diogo Guedes Vidal, Nadhima Cherif, L. Silva, P. Remoaldo   +4 more
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Revealing the relationship between storm surge risks and coastal urbanization characteristics under sea level rise

Ecological Indicators
Under the pressures of climate change and sea level rise (SLR), coastal cities like Shenzhen face escalating threats from storm surges. A critical research gap remains in the mechanistic understanding of how anthropogenic urbanization processes interact ...
Bo Luan, Xiulin Ye, Jianing Luo, Shiqi Xie, Chenxi Xia, Yangtongci Ning, Mingjian Zhu   +6 more
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