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The factors influencing waste management for economic development—the perspective of Nelson Mandela bay municipality residents

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainability
The rapid increase in volume and variety of solid waste as a result of continuous economic growth, urbanization, and industrialization has become an intractable problem for the public and private sectors, making it difficult to ensure effective and ...
Sibongangani Mngomezulu   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Urban green infrastructure health assessment, based on landsat 8 remote sensing and entropy landscape metrics

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Remote Sensing, 2021
Environmental changes significantly affect urban ecological systems that are supported by green infrastructure. Therefore, assessment of the health of green infrastructure is virtually a quality assessment of the residential environment.
Mu-En Chang   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Splicing Method of Micro-Nano-Scale Pore Radius Distribution in Tight Sandstone Reservoir

open access: yesEnergies, 2022
Accurate characterization of the micro- and nano-pore radius values in a tight sandstone reservoir is the key work to reasonably evaluate reservoir properties.
Shiming Zhang   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Culture and Human Settlements

open access: yes, 2019
{"references": ["Belshek, Jalal Ali 2006, The influence of culture on the negotiation styles of British students, http://research.ncl.ac.uk/ARECLS/volume_3/jalalali.pdf", "http://www.cssforum.com.pk/css-optional-subjects/group-b/sociology/8613-various-definitions-culture.html", "http://www.theperfectworld.org/the%20climate.html", "Kroeber, AL & ...
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Pola Spasial Permukiman Kampoeng Batik Laweyan, Surakarta [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Settlement is an entity from culture and existence of human to live, grow and survive. Man creates house in an environment as they need. Forming process of the settlement affected by physical and non-physical thing, such as social culture system, economy,
Azizah, R. N. (Riska)   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

The non-human interest story: De-personalising the migrant [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
We argue that newspapers deliberately employ techniques to dehumanise and depersonalise news stories in order to cultivate distance between the reader and human subject in newspaper accounts.
Howarth, A, Ibrahim, Y
core  

Global Human Settlement Analysis for Disaster Risk Reduction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) is supported by the European Commission, Joint Research Center (JRC) in the frame of his institutional research activities.
CARNEIRO FREIRE SERGIO MANUEL   +9 more
core   +1 more source

Visions of a Martian Future [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
As we look beyond our terrestrial boundary to a multi-planetary future for humankind, it becomes paramount to anticipate the challenges of various human factors on the most likely scenario for this future: permanent human settlement ...
Abood, Steven   +10 more
core   +1 more source

Integrating historic preservation into a wider framework of urban development through comprehensive planning: an evaluation of local comprehensive plans in U.S. state capitals

open access: yesHeritage Science, 2022
Historic preservation should be integrated into the broader framework of urban development. This makes preservation through local comprehensive planning a good option. However, few local comprehensive plans have demonstrated the content or quality needed
Luchen Zhang, Yuexing Tang, Yang Chen
doaj   +1 more source

Implications of Human Settlements Evolution

open access: yesProcedia Economics and Finance, 2014
AbstractThe paper presents an analysis of major issues on human settlement sizes evolution in the XIX-th Century and particularly in the XX-th Century. The starting point is the presentation of population evolution by habitat types, it continues with an analysis of urbanization process costs and further on of de-ruralisation, while the final part ...
openaire   +2 more sources

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