Delivering innovation and choice in water supply in Kenya's informal settlements [PDF]
, 2012 Improved access to water and sanitation in the worlds slums were among the key targets in the Millennium Development Goals. In Kenya, water is generally accessed in slum areas by filling 20l jerrycans at standposts and water kiosks and carrying back to ...
O'Regan, Jack
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IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2023 Urbanization as a human activity alters the surface structure, modifying the urban ecological environment. In this study, the greenness, wetness, building index, and heatness of Dalian, a coastal city in northeast China, were extracted from the summer ...
Chunli Li, Jun Yang, Yuqing Zhang
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petrpajdla/settlements: settlements: at submission
, 2022 settlements This repository contains supplementary information, code and data for an article "Spatial analysis of Neolithic settlement patterns in central Europe".
Petr Pajdla
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Integrated Community Onsite Sanitation System for Close Loop Faecal Management [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2021 The achievement of safe sanitation access is about 7.42 % in 2018, that indicates high risk of faecal contamination from unmanaged onsite sanitation system and has not been fully supported by faecal sludge service.
Hastuti Elis +4 more
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Granularity Optimization for Efficient Energy Consumption Monitoring in Subway Stations for Enhanced Energy Management [PDF]
E3S Web of ConferencesEfficient energy data management forms a critical foundation for unlocking the carbon reduction potential of subway systems, holding significant importance in advancing urban processes towards lowcarbon and clean environments.
Guan Bowen +4 more
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A Study on Protective Reuse of Traditional Architecture in Lhasa [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2019 Traditional Tibetan architecture in Lhasa has a unique position in the world. Under the special social background of economic development demand and tourism, it has gradually become a pillar industry, and how to rationally protect and reuse this ...
Qin Qing, Chen Yang, Zhang Haiyue
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Making the case for the nexus between resilience and resource efficiency at the city scale
International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development, 2017 Global challenges such as climate change, resource scarcity and poverty must increasingly be tackled in cities. While cities can be significant contributors to climate change and resource scarcity, and face considerable risks as a consequence of these ...
David Dodman +2 more
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Feldspathic sandstone as an emerging soil stabilizer for aeolian sand in the Mu Us Sandy Land: insights into particle size distribution [PDF]
PeerJStabilization of aeolian sand is essential for achieving desertification control, soil and water conservation, and agricultural development in sandy lands. Feldspathic sandstone is a soft clay rock widely found in the Mu Us Sandy Land.
Lu Zhang +4 more
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Study on Barriers of Water Salt Transfers in Earthen Sites by Plastic-Coated Sand
Atmosphere, 2023 Under the action of unidirectional water migration, museum soil sites generally encounter erosion through dry cracking, salt enrichment, etc. In this paper, the earthen site of the Terra Cotta Warriors Museum of the First Emperor of Qin was used as the ...
Wen Xu +5 more
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Applicability Analysis of Inspection and Monitoring Technologies in Wind Turbine Towers
Shock and Vibration, 2021 Wind turbines are one of the key systems in wind energy development. The wind tower supporting the whole wind turbine is a towering structure, which has been affected by installation, transportation, environment, and other factors.
Yanchao Yue +6 more
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