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Optimization of Microclimate Conditions Considering Urban Morphology and Trees Using ENVI-Met: A Case Study of Cairo City

open access: yesLand, 2023
This research aims to optimize the use of trees to enhance microclimate conditions, which has become necessary because of climate change and its impacts, especially for cities suffering from extreme heat stress, such as Cairo.
Ahmed Yasser Abdelmejeed   +1 more
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Long-term success of floodplain meadow restoration on species-poor grassland

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023
Restoration of floodplain meadows remains a challenge, as many degraded sites suffer from seed limitation. The transfer of seed-containing plant material from species-rich donor sites is a widely used method to restore semi-natural grasslands.
Leonhard Sommer   +4 more
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A conceptual framework for ex ante valuation of ecosystem services of brownfield greening from a systematic perspective

open access: yesEcosystem Health and Sustainability, 2020
Introduction: Although Brownfield greening (BG) can be a crucial solution to green space deficiency in dense urban areas, the potential benefits of different BG initiatives have rarely been quantitatively pre-evaluated.
Qicheng Zhong   +6 more
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Distribution Characteristics of Soil Aggregates in Urban Relocation Sites of Shanghai City

open access: yesShuitu baochi tongbao, 2022
[Objective] The distribution characteristics of soil aggregates in typical relocation sites of Shanghai City were analyzed in order to provide technical support for soil afforestation in relocation sites.
Liang Jing, Wu Haibing, Zhang Lang
doaj   +1 more source

Global urban homogenization and the loss of emotions

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2022
Urban expansion is generating unprecedented homogenization of landscapes across the world. This uniformization of urban forms brings along dramatic environmental, social, and health problems. Reverting such processes requires activating people’s sense of
Adrienne Grêt-Regamey   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Spatiotemporal Pattern of Carbon Compensation Potential and Network Association in Urban Agglomerations in the Yellow River Basin

open access: yesISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2023
The Yellow River Basin is an important energy base and economic belt in China, but its water resources are scarce, its ecology is fragile, and the task of achieving the goal of carbon peak and carbon neutrality is arduous.
Haihong Song   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Is flood resilience planning improving? A longitudinal analysis of networks of plans in Boston and Fort Lauderdale

open access: yesClimate Risk Management, 2021
As climate change increases flood risk, there is growing recognition that the multiple plans cities adopt often work at cross purposes and encourage development in areas at risk of current and future flooding. There have been calls for a more coordinated
Sierra Woodruff   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Landscape function analysis as a base of landscape visions

open access: yesActa Universitatis Sapientiae: Agriculture and Environment, 2015
An essential condition for the success of rural areas is the harmonious enforcement of ecologic, economic, and other educational, cultural, aesthetic goods/services of landscape, diversity of landscape functions.
Filepné Kovács Krisztina   +5 more
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The Influence of Green Infrastructure on the Acoustic Environment: A Conceptual and Methodological Basis for Quiet Area Assessment in Urban Regions

open access: yesConservation
Urban regions represent complex acoustic environments with few respites from noise other than small or remote patches of green infrastructure (GI).
Bryce T. Lawrence   +2 more
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Functional regionalization of land resources considering eco-efficiency in Nanjing Metropolitan Area, China

open access: yesEcological Indicators, 2023
The rapid urbanization in the region has caused a shift in land-use structure and, as a result, the degrading of ecosystems. Elucidating the spatial–temporal evolution of ecosystem services (ESs) and ecological function zoning, it was beneficial to ...
Shiqi Song   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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