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Assessment on the Effectiveness of Urban Stormwater Management

, 2020
Stormwater management is a key issue in line with global problems of urbanization and climate change. Assessing the effectiveness in managing stormwater is crucial to maintain urban resilience to flooding risk.
Jianli Hao, Xiaonan Tang, Jun Zhai, Yixin Zhang, Changhyun Jun, Xue Chen, Weihan Zhao   +6 more
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Place‐based risk: Examining relationships between adolescent perceptions of community risk factors and adolescent substance use across geographic contexts

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Mixed evidence for the influence of structural and social factors on adolescent substance use behaviors exists across the rural–urban continuum. Therefore, this study explores how adolescent perceptions of structural and social community risk factors are associated with lifetime and past 30‐day use of alcohol, marijuana, cigarettes, and ...
Melissa Pearman Fenton, Sarah D. Lynne, Josie L. Bryan, Catherine Woodstock Striley, Larry F. Forthun   +4 more
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Seasonal habitat selection and ranging of domestic cats (Felis catus) in rural and urban environments

Animal Biotelemetry
Domestic cats (Felis catus) thrive at high densities alongside humans in urban and rural environments and are responsible for excessive wildlife predation worldwide.
Carolyn E. Dunford, Sophie Loca, Nikki J. Marks, Michael Scantlebury   +3 more
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Stormwater Management in Urban Coastal Areas—A Review [PDF]

Stormwater management in coastal urban cities, where drainage networks are influenced by marine dynamics and specific soil and altimetry conditions, has specific challenges that need to be addressed to ensure adequate management in such areas, which are ...
Francisco Piqueiro, António Geraldes, Cristina Santos, Cristina Matos   +3 more
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Artificial Intelligence and Access to Justice at the ‘Shop Front’: The Potential and Limitations of Meeting Legal Need Through Technology

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Australia, governments fund Community Legal Centres (CLCs) as part of the legal assistance sector (LAS) to meet the ‘legal needs’ of people experiencing disadvantage who cannot afford private legal services. Persistent unmet demand for CLCs is well‐documented. As artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in private legal practice to
Catherine Hastings, Art Cotterell, Farzana Bruce   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Conducting community-led research using trail cameras to develop baseline wandering domestic cat local abundance estimates

FACETS
Assessing cat local abundance provides information on where wandering cat numbers are highest and what habitats or factors are associated with wandering cats.
Elizabeth A. Gow, Ben Aubrey, Lydia Cossar, Carter Mazerolle, Edward Cheskey   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Roaming habits of pet cats on the suburban fringe in Perth, Western Australia: What size buffer zone is needed to protect wildlife in reserves? [PDF]

, 2008
We radiotracked 18 pet cats Felis catus from rural and urban areas within the City of Armadale, Western Australia, both at night and during the day between August 2003 and February 2005 to estimate the size of buffer zone required to reduce incursions by
Calver, M.C., Garkaklis, M.J., Lilith, M.   +2 more
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The Urban Sun Belt: An Overview

, 2020
This paper focuses on the 22 metropolitan statistical areas in the Sun Belt with a population of 1 million people or more. Together, they accounted for almost half of all population growth in the entire United States between 2010 and 2016.
Hazle, Shelly G., Choudary, Wendie, Fulton, William, Sherman, Stephen Averill   +3 more
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Heat Stress in Quail: Impacts on Health and Productivity, and Mitigation Strategies

Animal Research and One Health, EarlyView.
Heat stress disrupts physiological homeostasis in quail, inducing oxidative stress, immune dysregulation, and metabolic imbalance, which impair growth, reproduction, product quality, and welfare. Integrating nutritional, environmental, and genetic–epigenetic strategies enhances thermotolerance, sustains productivity, and supports climate‐smart quail ...
T. A. Eletu, I. A. Anjola, L. O. Fasasi, D. P. Fadipe, A. T. Afuye, F. O. Fasanya, O. E. Oke   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Defining urban open space governance and management

, 2020
This chapter introduces and defines central terms needed to understand and discuss contemporary urban open space (UOS) governance and management. It discusses how governance and management already are, and can increasingly become, related to each other ...
Fors, Hanna,, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet., Vogel, Nina,, Randrup, Thomas,, Jansson, Märit,   +4 more
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