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Sustainable landscape planning and design
, 2017 Alongside sustainable development, the concept of sustainability has begun to be utilized in various areas of life (such as life, planning, design, management, settlement, space, urban, etc.). Subsequently, along with the concept, the objectives of sustainable development have been moved to these areas.
DEMİROĞLU, DEMET +2 more
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Planning for Urban Heat Resilience
, 2022 Heat is the number one weather-related killer in the United States. As average global temperatures continue to rise, the threats of both extreme heat events and chronic heat are projected to increase.
Keith, Ladd, Meerow, Sara
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The 'Landscape Character Turn': An Examination of Experience in the UK and Taiwan [PDF]
, 2012 Landscape policy in the UK has a tradition of conserving natural beauty within designated areas. As a result of both the progressive development of landscape analysis techniques, of which the most recent is the use of Landscape Character Assessment (LCA),
CHENG, HSIAO-YUN
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Land, 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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Sweden does not meet agreed national and international forest biodiversity targets: A call for adaptive landscape planning [Elektronisk resurs] [PDF]
, 2020 Loss of forest naturalness challenges the maintenance of green infrastructure (GI) for biodiversity conservation and delivery of diverse ecosystem services.
Angelstam, Per, +3 more
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Long-term success of floodplain meadow restoration on species-poor grassland
Frontiers 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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Ecosystem 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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LANDSCAPE PLANNING IN UKRAINE: THE FIRST LANDSCAPE-PLANNING PROGRAM
GEOGRAPHY, ENVIRONMENT, SUSTAINABILITY, 2013 The paper presents the results of the first, in Ukraine; project on landscape planning widely accepted in European countries. Under the project implemented in 2010–2013, a landscape-planning program has been developed for the Cherkassy oblast. This is the first document of this kind in Ukraine.
Leonid Rudenko +5 more
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Distribution Characteristics of Soil Aggregates in Urban Relocation Sites of Shanghai City
Shuitu 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
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Global urban homogenization and the loss of emotions
Scientific 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
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