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URBAN DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES IN THE CONTEXT OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND URBAN POLICY

, 2005
During the last decade, in many European countries and cities, area-based Urban Development Programmes have been initiated, in response to major problems of poverty and social exclusion.
Tosics, Ivan, Dukes, Thea, IVÁN TOSICS, Dukes, M.J.M., THEA DUKES, Tosics, I.   +5 more
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Calculating population density for MOLAND in the Dublin urban area [PDF]

, 2008
The EPA-funded Urban Environment Project seeks to apply MOLAND, a cellular automata based model, to predict a range of urban impacts in the Greater Dublin Region from 2006 onwards.
Foley, Ronan, Critchley, Martin, Convery, Sheila   +2 more
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How urban green management is influencing passerine birds nesting in the Mediterranean: a case study in a Catalan city

, 2019
The vegetation within the urban system provides sheltering and food provisions to birds, influencing their nesting options. This study analyses for the first time in the Mediterranean area how different socio-ecological factors related with public urban ...

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“Local Food” Consumption: Does Locality Matter?

Journal of ASEAN Studies, 2023
The research examined the possibility of food being socialized as local food to replace local food’s role in food tourism. Food was one of the major attractions during a vacancy in ASEAN.
Agustina Multi Purnomo, Gumilar Rusliwa Somantri, Ricardi S. Adnan   +2 more
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Rural, urban and suburban differences in the prevalence of metabolic syndrome in individuals aged ≥50 years in Northwest China

Frontiers in Public Health
BackgroundMetabolic syndrome (MetS) is a significant risk factor for type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. The aim of this study was to identify the characteristics of MetS in northwest China.MethodsThree thousand and one adults were included (1 ...
Yang Jiao, Chunhong Zhang, Jie Ming, Shaoyong Xu, Yangwei Wang, Xiaoli Yao, Aihua Jia, Hui Li, Jing Sui, Jianjun Qin, Wenjie Li, Haixiong Zhang, Xin Zhao, Xuan Xie, Qiuhe Ji   +14 more
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Urban land grabs in Africa?

, 2019
Africa is rapidly urbanising. New dynamics of investments and mobilities ensue the expansive urbanisation, generating transformative effects on the continents urban land and built environment.
Otsuki, K., van Noorloos, F., Social Urban Transitions, Steel, G.   +3 more
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A Review on Eurasian Otters in Urban Areas: Principles for the Enhancement of Biodiversity

Diversity
Eurasian otters, as apex predators in freshwater ecosystems, are crucial to maintaining nutrient cycling and habitat stability. Although Eurasian otters prefer unaltered natural habitats, their adaptive and opportunistic behavior allows them to occupy ...
Connor Lee, Xiaofeng Luan
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Urban ‘tourism exploration space’: the example of Łódź [PDF]

, 2009
The author refers to the concept of ‘tourism space’ published earlier, and confronts this notion with a definition of ‘urban space’, bearing in mind that both these ‘spaces’ are subspaces of general ‘geographical space’.
Stanisław Liszewski, Liszewski, Stanisław   +1 more
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Digital world meets urban planet – new prospects for evidence-based urban studies arising from joint exploitation of big earth data, information technology and shared knowledge

International Journal of Digital Earth, 2020
The digital transformation taking place in all areas of life has led to a massive increase in digital data – in particular, related to the places where and the ways how we live.
Thomas Esch, Hubert Asamer, Felix Bachofer, Jakub Balhar, Martin Boettcher, Enguerran Boissier, Pablo d' Angelo, Caroline M. Gevaert, Andreas Hirner, Katerina Jupova, Franz Kurz, Andy Yaw Kwarteng, Emmanuel Mathot, Mattia Marconcini, Alessandro Marin, Annekatrin Metz-Marconcini, Fabrizio Pacini, Marc Paganini, Hans Permana, Tomas Soukup, Soner Uereyen, Christopher Small, Vaclav Svaton, Julian Nils Zeidler   +23 more
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Beyond passive consumption: Dis/ordering water supply and sanitation at Hanoi’s urban edge [PDF]

, 2017
In Hanoi people access, expand and create water and sanitation infrastructures in multiple ways that include, but are not restricted to, external provision of networked services.
Section Economic Urban Transitions, Lucía Wright-Contreras, Schramm, S., Sophie Schramm, Economic Urban Transitions, Wright-Contreras, Lucía   +5 more
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