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Characterisation and typology of urban wetlands in Ghana: Implications for the governance of urban commons in secondary cities in Africa

Urban Governance, 2021
Urban wetlands continue to provide essential ecosystem services to the urban populace and are largely seen as urban commons that need to be managed properly for continuous wise use of wetlands.
E.D. Kuusaana, A. Ahmed, B.B. Campion, A. Dongzagla   +3 more
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Conceptualizing local development practitioners: creators, coordinators or inside lobbyists?

Urban Governance, 2021
Local development practitioners in local government administration play a significant role in the governance of local development. This category of public officials – development officers, managers, strategists, secretaries, etc.
Albin Algotson, Petra Svensson
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Self-Governance for Sustainable Global Supply Chains: Can it deliver the impacts needed? [PDF]

, 2013
The world community convened in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012 for the third UN Conference on Sustainable Development. We are, however, increasingly facing major persistent threats, which despite being known for a few decades are still far from being ...
Walter J.V. Vermeulen, Environmental Governance, Vermeulen, W.J.V., Section Environmental Governance   +3 more
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Resilience, Fragility, and Robustness: Cities and COVID-19

Urban Governance, 2021
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on cities around the world. In this paper, we analyse city fragility and resilience through the lens of the social compact framework.
Michael Hunter
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Stakeholder networks and inclusive public participation mechanisms in the public budgeting process

Urban Governance, 2021
The local government budget process involves a variety of stakeholders. As part of this process, local governments may use public participation mechanisms, ranging from neighborhood meetings to citizen committees, to engage stakeholder groups and ...
Brad Johnson, Peter A. Jones, Vincent Reitano   +2 more
doaj   +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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Exploring Land Use Mapping with Multimodal Data Fusion and Convolutional Neural Network [PDF]

The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
Accurate and efficient land-use mapping provides intuitive spatial information, which helps to rationalize the planning and deployment of land resources, and provides a basis for urban planning, agricultural development, environmental protection and ...
J. Gu, J. Gu, Y. Wang, Y. Wang, Y. Gong, Y. Gong, T. Jin, T. Jin, J. Wu, J. Wu   +9 more
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Do smart cities perform better in governing the COVID-19 crisis? Empirical evidence from Indonesian cities

Urban Governance, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic has shocked the world due to its pronounced mortality rate, rapid worldwide spread, and profound socioeconomic effects across all societies.
Arif Budy Pratama, Hina Amber, Yauheniya Shershunovich, André Bueno Rezende de Castro   +3 more
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Environmental urban and socioeconomic risk factors for respiratory diseases a systematic review with quantitative weighting analysis

Discover Public Health
Background Rapid urbanization, environmental degradation, and socioeconomic inequalities are reshaping exposure patterns and vulnerability profiles for respiratory diseases worldwide.
Jihane Erraji, Adil Zabadi
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Spatio-temporal data fusion techniques for modeling digital twin City

Geo-spatial Information Science
The digital twin city technique maps the massive city environmental and social data on a three-dimensional virtual model. It presents the operational status of physical world and supports intelligent city governance.
Yuejin Li, Shengpeng Chen, Kai Hwang, Xiaoqiang Ji, Zhen Lei, Yi Zhu, Feng Ye, Mengjun Liu   +7 more
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