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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Forests and woodlands are important for biodiversity, climate change mitigation and the provision of services including recreation, timber and non‐timber forest products. Land use policies currently aim to increase forest cover while also maximising the benefits of forests for people and improving community engagement with the process of ...
Sarah Greenwood +6 more
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Visual aspects in urban woodland management and planning [PDF]
, 2003 Urban woodland is an important component of people's everyday environment, both as an attractive environment to visit as well as being an intrinsic part of the surrounding landscape.
Ode, Åsa
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Technical wildness: Modernity, romanticism, and the technocratic turn in Scottish rewilding
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Technical wildness is a new and increasingly influential culture of nature. This paper marks its emergence in Scotland in the early 2020s. Focusing on Scotland's rapidly evolving land management sector, the paper traces how private rewilding companies position science‐led land management and natural capital markets as the most effective ...
Theo Stanley
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Exploring the Duality of Urban Living Through the Aesthetics of the Nighttime City
Rivista di EsteticaResearch in the emerging area of the philosophy of the city has blossomed significantly in the last decade. One research strand is urban lighting, which offers several insights into how cities appear, focusing on a range of issues.
Shane Epting
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Kentsel Çevrenin Algısı: Muratpaşa İlçesi Örneği
Journal of Architectural Sciences and Applications, 2019 Geçmişten günümüze doğa içerisinde fiziksel çevreler, kentler oluşturulurken insanların tercihleri topoğrafik yapı, iklim özellikleri, erişim kolaylığı, doğal kaynaklar, doğa ve çevre ilişkisi gibi yer oluşturma ilkeleri etrafında temellenmektedir ...
Ayşe Gülnur Hammaloğlu, Murat Akten
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Heterogeneous preferences for use and non‐use values provided by insects
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Public support is essential for reversing insect declines, yet conservation efforts often focus on instrumental values, particularly pollination and pest regulation, while overlooking the many and varied cultural ecosystem services that may underpin broader public support for conservation.
Peter King +3 more
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Touching Urban Spaces With Our Life. How We Experience Cities Aesthetically
Rivista di EsteticaI explore one distinctive aspect of our relation to spaces which is particularly significant in our everyday aesthetic evaluations of cities (urban spaces): the frequent use of linguistic expressions referring to the sense of touch.
Abel B. Franco
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Urban nature provides essential ecosystem services, but their use and perception vary based on socio‐demographic factors, including settlement type, which reflects differences in socio‐economic and environmental conditions. This study compares how residents of new town developments (master‐planned areas) and unplanned settlements (organically ...
Shaikh Fairul Edros Ahmad Shaikh +4 more
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Aesthetics in urban space: architecture and art for sustainable cities [PDF]
, 2014 Addressing the problem of aesthetics in urban space nowadays implies dealing with new models of cities, in which sustainable development, regeneration, requalification and urban reuse become indispensable. The reuse of the city, in regions concerned with
VERDI, LAURA
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Attention in the Wake of Emerging Urban Technologies [PDF]
, 2021 Technology in one form or another has always been a part of urban life and the different types of environments where it takes place. What types of technologies have been taken into use and developed in the first place has traditionally been dictated by ...
Lehtinen, Sanna
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