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Right tree, right place, right reason: Using knowledge exchange and research co‐design to explore current challenges and opportunities for sustainable urban forest management

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
The urban forest provides important environmental and health and well‐being benefits to people living in cities. However, sustainable management of urban trees is challenging as they face interrelated pressures from the urban environment, pests and diseases and climate change.
Jill Edmondson, Eleanor Absalom, Raoul Blackman, Paul Brindley, Stuart Campbell, Alan Carter, Abigail Catterrall, Miriam Dobson, Kieron Doick, Mathew Dumelow, Sophia Cunningham, Fran Halsall, Liam Healy, Jamie Howe, Jonathan R. Leake, Nicola McHugh, Anthony Turner, Hannah Walker, Katie Pruszynski, Ian MacDermott, Jerry Gunton, Matthew North, Catherine Nuttgens, Toby Pillat, Holly Croft   +24 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ecological paradigm of cities in post-Brundtland era: challenges of conserving historic urban landscapes as living cities

Časopis Socìalʹno-Ekonomìčnoï Geografìï. Часопис соціально-економічної географії, 2018
Sustainability has been a pressing, complex, and challenging agenda for urbanists. Its focus turns on wider issues of envi-ronment and societies thus broadening the concept defined in the Brundtland report.
Harsha Munasinghe
doaj   +1 more source

Evolution of mobility governance in Flanders: opening up for bottom-up initiatives or suffering from lock-in? [PDF]

, 2015
Mobility policy in Flanders lacks a clear discourse on implementing the policy objectives for 2020 and beyond. Though mobility planning can show success stories, mobility problems seem to aggravate.
Boelens, Luuk, Lauwers, Dirk, Van Brussel, Suzanne   +2 more
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Data privacy model using blockchain reinforcement federated learning approach for scalable internet of medical things

CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) has typical advancements in the healthcare sector with rapid potential proof for decentralised communication systems that have been applied for collecting and monitoring COVID‐19 patient data. Machine Learning algorithms typically use the risk score of each patient based on risk factors, which could help ...
Chandramohan Dhasaratha, Mohammad Kamrul Hasan, Shayla Islam, Shailesh Khapre, Salwani Abdullah, Taher M. Ghazal, Ahmed Ibrahim Alzahrani, Nasser Alalwan, Nguyen Vo, Md Akhtaruzzaman   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Agent Based Model for the Simulation of Transport Demand and Land Use [PDF]

, 2015
Agent based modelling has emerged as a promising tool to provide planners with insights on social behaviour and the interdependencies characterising urban system, particularly with respect to transport and infrastructure planning.
Barthelemy, J., Berryman, M., Cao, V.L., Huynh, N., Perez, P., Wickramasuriya, R.   +5 more
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Putting the Femme in Feminist: Trans Feminism and the ‘Male Lesbian’ in the American Second Wave

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A slur, a joke or a post‐structuralist case of mistaken identity. To the extent that the male lesbian has been discussed, she has figured dismissively. Yet throughout the period historicised as American feminism's second wave, potentially thousands of trans femmes organised under this identity. Despite being entirely overlooked in scholarship,
Aino Pihlak, Emily Cousens
wiley   +1 more source

A framework for evaluating ecohydrological-based liveability in a rapidly urbanising region of Indonesia

International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development, 2018
We surveyed households within Cirebon Metropolitan Region (CMR) in Indonesia to assess ecohydrological changes and their impacts on urban and peri-urban liveability.
Titih Titisari Danielaini, Basant Maheshwari, Dharmappa Hagare   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Communities of Co-presence and Surveillance: how public open space shapes awareness and behaviour in residential developments [PDF]

, 2007
12-15 June ...
Hanson, J, Zako, R
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HYPERSCALING HOUSING: Venture Capital, Real Estate Start‐Ups and the Race to Build a Global Residential Brand

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract What happens when venture capitalists try to reinvent housing in their own image? Synonymous with the rise of Big Tech, venture capitalists (VCs) are asset managers that invest in early‐stage companies, pursuing aggressive growth and market domination. Since the 2008 financial crisis, VCs have poured huge sums into real estate start‐ups.
Tim White
wiley   +1 more source

Multidimensional disparities in urban liveability across Chinese non-core cities: a typological exploration based on carbon emissions differences

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Decarbonisation has increasingly become a major policy direction globally, deeply intertwined with urban socio-economic development. However, the connection between such a process and urban liveability remains underexplored.
Yizhao Du
doaj   +1 more source