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New Approaches in Urban Forestry to Minimize Invasive Species Impacts: The Case of Xiongan New Area in China [PDF]
Insects, 2020 China is implementing an extensive urban forestry plan in Xiongan New Area (XNA), a new city in Hebei province. The city has been designated to serve Beijing’s noncapital functions and promote the integration of the broader Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei city ...
Hui-Ping Li +5 more
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Opportunity cost estimates for spatial conservation prioritisation across terrestrial Europe [PDF]
Scientific DataOpportunity costs of conservation represent the foregone economic benefits from using land for nature conservation rather than alternative activities. Considering opportunity costs therefore helps in identifying cost-effective solutions in conservation ...
Douglas Spencer +10 more
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, 2023 The essay has been developed on the occasion of the X Forum ProArch, National Scientific Society of Architectural Design teachers, SSD ICAR 14-15-16, held in Genoa, on 16-17-18 November 2023. The result is a lemmary where the author focuses on “Urban Forestry” as an architectural response to the urgency of reversing the process of transformation of the
Nilsson, Kjell Svenne Bernhard +2 more
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Procedural Urban Forestry [PDF]
ACM Transactions on Graphics, 2022 The placement of vegetation plays a central role in the realism of virtual scenes. We introduce procedural placement models (PPMs) for vegetation in urban layouts. PPMs are environmentally sensitive to city geometry and allow identifying plausible plant positions based on structural and functional zones in an urban layout.
Niese, Till +4 more
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Tokyo Metropolitan Parks as urban forestry assemblagesreframing more-than-human commons in the city
Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, 2022 This study explores urban forestry as a maintenance practice capable of enhancing more-than-human commons in the city. Focusing on the places associated with tree care, the methodology takes as a case study the Tokyo Metropolitan Parks, conducting ...
Diego Martín Sánchez +2 more
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TOWARDS GREEN SMART CITIES: IMPORTANCE OF URBAN FORESTRY AND URBAN VEGETATION [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2020 More than half of the total world’s population lives in urban areas, and it is expected that 66% of all them will live in urban areas by 2050. The population growth and continuing urbanization in the world cause many social, economic, technical, and ...
Z. Uçar, A. E. Akay, E. Bilici
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Investigation on effects of urban forestry in respect to energy economy (Case study: Hamadan city) [PDF]
تحقیقات جنگل و صنوبر ایران, 2012 Population Increase and cities expansion caused increase in energy consumption and negative effects on climate temperature changes and on physical and mental health of cities residents as well.
Elham Malmir +2 more
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MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ALGORITHM DETECTS COASTAL WETLAND CHANGES IN TWO CONTRASTING COASTAL WETLANDS IN LOUISIANA [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2023 Louisiana coastal wetlands contain about 37 percent of the estuarine herbaceous marshes in the conterminous United States. However, the combined effect of sea level rise and other anthropogenic factors have altered land use land cover over the last few ...
T. H. Dauda +3 more
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ASSESSING LAND COVER CHANGE AROUND BAYOU PEROT-LITTLE LAKE, NEW ORLEANS USING SENTINEL 2 SATELLITE IMAGERY [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2022 Global climate change has affected the rate of rising sea level, the frequency, intensity, timing, and distribution of hurricanes and tropical storms which threatens coastal ecosystems such as Bayou Perot, Little Lake in New Orleans along the Gulf of ...
M. Anokye +8 more
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TRACKING THE GODZILLA DUST PLUME USING GOOGLE EARTH ENGINE PLATFORM [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2022 As part of Earth’s nutrient cycle, a layer of air travels every summer from Africa across the Atlantic Ocean. In June 2020, the thickest and densest dust plume traveled over 5000 miles along with the Saharan Air Layer (SAL) from Africa towards the USA ...
A. B. Asare-Ansah +10 more
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