Assessment of Climate Change Mainstreaming in Spatial Planning at the Central Level in Kosovo
SEEU Review, 2022 Spatial developments contribute to climate change through greenhouse gas emissions and disordered land use. At the same time, climate change impacts have spatial implications, influencing the land uses and settlements development, and damaging habitats ...
Caka Fjollë, Ismaili Murtezan
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Energy, Sustainability and Society, 2019 Background District heating is widely used for thermal energy supply and offers a broad range of benefits like the possibility to integrate decentral heat supply technologies or to foster the utilisation of renewable energy sources.
Peter Lichtenwoehrer +3 more
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A methodological framework for integrated planning in the protection and development of natural resource areas in Serbia - a case study of spatial plans for special purpose areas for protected natural areas [PDF]
Spatium, 2018 Spatial plans for special purpose areas for natural resources are one of the main instruments for their protection and development, and significant results have been achieved in spatial planning practice in Serbia in recent years.
Stefanović Nebojša +2 more
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Energy, Sustainability and Society, 2019 Background District heating systems have been gaining importance in the last years. However, local circumstances, e.g. regarding heat demand and available heat sources, are diverse and new technologies especially in the low-temperature sector arise ...
Franz Zach +2 more
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Interdisciplinary decision support model for grid-bound heat supply systems in urban areas
Energy, Sustainability and Society, 2019 Background In the past two centuries, energy consumption per capita has significantly increased. At the same time the fundamentals of energy provision have continuously developed towards fossil energy sources.
Susanna Erker +3 more
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Toward Sustainable Industrial Spatial Planning: Integrating Supply Chain Management and Environmental–Economic Assessment for the Proposed Al-Kuraymat Industrial Zone, Egypt [PDF]
SVU-International Journal of Engineering Sciences and ApplicationsIndustrial zones play a vital role in economic growth and regional development; however, they are increasingly challenged by inefficient resource utilization, environmental degradation, and fragmented industrial development.
Nada Saleh Mohamed +2 more
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, 2021 To promote the effective combination of photovoltaic (PV) utilization and urban development, this study proposes that solar PV generation should be taken as an important resource and environmental carrying capacity factor, which is defined as ...
Yukun Zhang, Siyuan Chen, Jie Zheng
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Enhancing Urban Resilience through Integrated Energy, Climate, and Spatial Planning: Introducing the IN-PLAN Practise [PDF]
Fragmented sectoral policies hinder spatial planning from driving sustainable development and diminish the impact of EU-funded investments, posing a significant challenge for urban development in Europe (ESPON, 2018).
Lindorfer, Anna +5 more
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An integrated framework to assess spatial and related implications of biomass delivery chains [PDF]
, 2011 The overall objective of the ME4 research project was to develop an integrated framework to assess and analyse the spatial implications and related opportunities and consequences of an increased implementation of biomass delivery chains for energy ...
Sanders, J.P.M. +3 more
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Frontiers of Urban and Rural PlanningThis study addresses the persistent gap between city-scale carbon–neutral targets and operational spatial planning by conceptualizing the Zero-Energy Campus (ZEC) as a meso-scale planning object.
Ting Yang +3 more
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