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Legacy effects of redlining on the distribution of greenspaces in US cities

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, EarlyView.
We investigated how a discriminatory housing policy—redlining—has shaped the spatial patterns and configurations of greenspaces throughout 177 cities in the contiguous US. Housing segregation has been a long‐term development practice that has sequestered communities of color to areas with elevated environmental and public health risks.
Travis Gallo, Mason Fidino, Christopher J Schell, Marccus D Hendricks, Seth B Magle   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Development of High-Precision Urban Flood-Monitoring Technology for Sustainable Smart Cities. [PDF]

Sensors (Basel), 2023
Jang BJ, Jung I.
europepmc   +1 more source

Senegal Urban Floods

, 2014
Senegal is located in the Sahel region of West Africa. Between 1970 and 2000, the country suffered prolonged droughts that contributed to rural exodus. Communities in these peri-urban areas, already among the poorest in the country, are the most vulnerable to episodes of heavy rainfall and subsequent flooding.
openaire   +2 more sources

“Thinking Out Loud” and “Pivoting on the Fly”—An Empirical Review and Critical Incident Study of How Physicians Engage in Incidental Learning Amidst Complexity

Human Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores incidental learning among physicians navigating uncertainty during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Using a constructivist research design, we conducted a literature review of 13 empirical studies on incidental learning in complexity and analyzed critical incident interviews with 12 emergency medicine and intensive care physicians ...
Henriette Lundgren, Karen E. Watkins, Victoria J. Marsick, Dimitrios Papanagnou, Urvashi Vaid   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

IUFRI: an Urban Flood Resilience Index improved by flood adaptation strategy

Applied Water Science
Assessing urban flood risk is crucial for resilience analysis, particularly in cities like Karaj, which face significant flooding challenges. This study advances the Urban Flood Resilience Index (UFRI) by introducing the Improved UFRI (IUFRI), which ...
Kousha Khatooni, Farhad Hooshyaripor, Bahram MalekMohammadi, Roohollah Noori   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Green swans and blue skies: Climate change and insolvency risk for financial institutions

International Insolvency Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This lecture in honour of the late Gabriel Moss QC and Ian Fletcher QC examines the challenge of climate‐related financial risk. Prudential regulators and central banks recognize that the systemic nature of climate‐related financial risk makes it an emerging vulnerability relevant to cross‐border insolvency resolution.
Janis Sarra
wiley   +1 more source

How Does Vulnerability Framing by Microfinance Institutions Leverage Funding Success in Crowdfunding?

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study draws on framing theory to investigate how microfinance institutions (MFIs) strategically construct a vulnerability‐oriented organisational identity and how this framing influences their funding decisions during the pre‐campaign phase of prosocial crowdfunding.
Ana Paula Matias Gama, Ricardo Emanuel‐Correia, Fábio Duarte, Mário Augusto   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Monitoring and simulation of Chennai floods through a high-resolution topographic datasets

Discover Cities
This study focuses on the catastrophic flood events in the Chennai region in 2005 and 2015, which resulted in significant loss of life and property. To simulate flood extent and inundation depths, the study uses a three-way coupled MIKE FLOOD approach ...
Ajith Kumar .K, Sankar .C.P, Venkatramanan .S, Pradeep .C, Arun Bharathi .V, Prabha .K, Vidyasakar .A   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Urban flood risk differentiation under land use scenario simulation. [PDF]

iScience, 2023
Zhao H, Gu T, Tang J, Gong Z, Zhao P.
europepmc   +1 more source

Transforming Agricultural Water Management Through the Water–Energy–Food Nexus: Trends, Opportunities, Barriers and Solutions

Irrigation and Drainage, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Agricultural water management (AWM) is increasingly transitioning towards transformative thinking, where interconnected sectors, including water, energy and food, are managed holistically. Trends point towards cross‐sectoral and harmonised strategies to optimise water use efficiency and productivity, integrate renewable energy, promote ...
Luxon Nhamo, Cuthbert Taguta, Sylvester Mpandeli, Tinashe Dirwai, Stanley Liphadzi, Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source