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Utilizing Geographic Information Systems to Zone Landslide-Prone Areas for Urban Development in the Kandy Municipal Region, Sri Lanka

open access: yesJournal of Asian Geography
This investigation aims to delineate areas susceptible to landslides based on the current state of development in the Kandy Municipal Council Areas. Unplanned urbanization is taking place in many areas of Kandy city including landslide-vulnerable areas ...
P. Nagamuthu   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Stakeholder Engagement as a Design Principle: Orchestrating a Digital Platform for the Safety and Sustainability of the Nanomaterials Sector

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The governance of chemicals and nanomaterials presents a critical challenge, as significant uncertainties regarding safety and sustainability match their innovation potential. This creates a “knowledge‐to‐action” gap, hindering the practical implementation of safety and sustainability by design (SSbD) principles.
Mario Miozza   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Characterizing Ecological Sensitivity of Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration in China

open access: yesJournal of geography and geology
Ecological sensitivity, as one of the most important indicators to evaluate regional environmental issues, holds significant implications for ecological governance and management in the related area.
Yan Chen   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Giscience in the Mountain Geography

open access: yes, 2010
Mountains have distinct geography and are dynamic in nature compared to the plains. 'Verticality' and 'variation' are two fundamental specificities of the mountain geography.
K. Poudel
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Productivity and Emissions in Italian Agriculture: A Farm‐Level Efficiency Analysis

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Achieving the European Union climate‐neutrality objectives requires metrics that jointly assess farm productivity and greenhouse gas emissions at a granular level. However, harmonized evidence for benchmarking the productivity–emissions nexus of Italian farms remains limited.
Giulio Fusco   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spatial dependence and heterogeneity in patterns of urban deprivation [PDF]

open access: yes
Developments in the provision and quality of digital data are creating possibilities for finer resolution spatial and temporal measurement of the properties of socio-economic systems. We suggest that the ?lifestyles?
Carolina Tobón, Paul Longley
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Socio-economic transformation of Poland’s largest cities over the years 1998–2008: A multivariate approach

open access: yesRozwój Regionalny i Polityka Regionalna, 2013
This article seeks to show changes in the socio-economic structure of the thirty largest Polish cities, in topological relations, and in the type of socio-economic differences among them.
Lidia Mierzejewska
doaj   +1 more source

Consumers' Intention to Use Circular Business Models: A Configurational Analysis

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Circular business models (CBMs) integrate ecological sustainability and resource efficiency into core business strategies, but their success depends on consumers' intention to use. Grounded in expectancy–value theory, this study investigates how product‐related factors (perceived usefulness, convenience, value for money, and performance risk ...
Christof Falkenberg   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Urban development and the socio-spatial transformation of retail areas : a case study of provincial towns in Thailand [PDF]

open access: yes
This research aims to address the impact of globalisation on urban development process in the context of global South, through the case study of the socio-spatial dimensions of retail areas in three provincial Thai towns over the last 50 years ...
Santad, Chulawadee
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The modifiable areal unit phenomenon: an investigation into the scale effect using UK census data [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The Modifiable Areal Unit Phenomenon (MAUP) has traditionally been regarded as a problem in the analysis of spatial data organised in areal units. However, the approach adopted here is that the MAUP provides an opportunity to gain information about the ...
Manley, D. J. (David John)
core   +2 more sources

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