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Urban Transformations to Keep All the Same: The Power of Ivy Discourses. [PDF]

Antipode, 2022
Abstract The concept of urban transformations has gathered interest among scholars and policymakers calling for radical change towards sustainability. The discourse represents an entry point to address systemic causes of ecological degradation and social injustice, thereby providing solutions to intractable global challenges.
Westman L, Castán Broto V.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Urban Tree Growth and Drought Responses Show Evidence of Climate Resilience. [PDF]

Glob Chang Biol
Urban trees face increasing risks from climate change, including drought and heatwaves, which threaten their growth and survival. By studying 10 tree species across seven Australian cities, we found that local climate strongly influences tree growth, and that some species are well adapted to urban climates.
Esperon-Rodriguez M, Brookhouse M, Power SA, Avi D, Baer T, Rymer PD, Tjoelker MG.   +6 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Managing floods in Chennai City as part of situation understanding and improvement project

World Water Policy, Volume 9, Issue 3, Page 349-370, August 2023., 2023
Abstract Transdisciplinary approaches in water are important to ensure water security to everyone around the world. Recently, Young Water Professionals (YWPs) training was carried out to impart learning in transdisciplinary approaches. Besides online workshops and lectures, the training program included the Situation Understanding and Improvement ...
Sunil Shivakumar, Monisha Shanmuganathan, Ashantha Goonetilleke, Darryl Day, Archana Sarkar, Dharmappa Hagare, Basant Maheshwari, Ricky Spencer, Matadadoddi Nanjundegowda Thimmegowda, Damodhara Rao Mailapalli, Mihir Kumar Purkait, Sadashiva Murthy Boohalli Mahadevappa   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Experiencias incipientes de inventarios de emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero en el ámbito local en Costa Rica

Ciencias Ambientales, 2021
[Introducción]: En Costa Rica la principal fuente de emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero (GEI) en el ámbito nacional es el sector energía, donde predomina el transporte.
Daniela García Sánchez, Jessie Vega Méndez, Laura Mora Mora   +2 more
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Centring justice in conceptualizing and improving access to urban nature

People and Nature, Volume 5, Issue 3, Page 897-910, June 2023., 2023
Abstract As humanity has become increasingly urban, a growing number of people have been deprived of access to nature and the benefits it provides. This is especially true for marginalized groups, who often live in neighbourhoods where nature has been so diminished and degraded that it provides fewer types, and much lower levels of benefits.
Kelley E. Langhans, Alejandra Echeverri, S. Caroline Daws, Sydney N. Moss, Christopher B. Anderson, Rebecca Chaplin‐Kramer, J. Nicholas Hendershot, Lingling Liu, Lisa Mandle, Oliver Nguyen, Suzanne X. Ou, Roy P. Remme, Rafael J. P. Schmitt, Adrian Vogl, Gretchen C. Daily   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluación de la sostenibilidad urbana multidimensional de la Zona Metropolitana Puebla-Tlaxcala, México

Investigaciones Geográficas, 2023
El proceso de urbanización acelerado es un fenómeno sin precedentes que se traduce en nuevas configuraciones citadinas y diversas problemáticas ambientales, ya sea por un acelerado consumo de suelo o la demanda de recursos naturales.
Israel Vázquez Morán, Salvador Adame Martínez, Elda Margarita Hernández Rejón, Juan Roberto Calderón Maya   +3 more
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Pay to protect: Examining the factors of the use of market‐based instruments for local water sustainability

Review of Policy Research, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 207-229, March 2023., 2023
Abstract Given the myriad of policy instruments aimed at enhancing water quantity conservation available to municipalities, what drives them to opt for a market‐based instrument (MBI)? MBIs can be effective and efficient policy instruments to enhance water quantity conservation, but there is little known about why municipalities utilize them.
Daniel Benjamin Bailey, Sung‐Wook Kwon, Nathaniel Wright   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Medición y evaluación de seis criterios de sostenibilidad urbana (aspecto físico), en Bucaramanga, Colombia

Revista Ciudades, Estados y Política, 2021
La investigación propone una metodología para la medición y evaluación de seis criterios de sostenibilidad urbana y aspecto físico (morfología), como aproximación válida para la determinación de la calidad de desarrollo urbano, aplicada a una ciudad ...
Sandra Cecilia Mesa García
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The drive to sustainability: A way in which local initiatives diffuse internationally

Politics &Policy, Volume 50, Issue 5, Page 967-991, October 2022., 2022
Abstract This article examines how local initiatives can gain international visibility and recognition as well as how they can diffuse to other cities. It explores the leadership of the mayors of Bogotá, Stockholm, and Portland, but also how there were specific contexts that favored the transformations of these cities.
Xira Ruiz‐Campillo
wiley   +1 more source

Have we achieved a sustainable balance? Evaluating the effects of regulated guano extraction on an important penguin breeding colony (2008–2019)

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2023
Guano extraction in Peru has caused significant impacts on the endangered Humboldt penguin (HUPE, Spheniscus humboldti) colonies. These impacts include HUPE distress, breeding avoidance, and abandonment of nests.
Leonardo Doig-Alba, Alonso Bussalleu, Susana Cárdenas-Alayza, Marco Cardeña-Mormontoy, Armando Valdés-Velásquez   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source