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Spatial Analysis of Green Infrastructure Changes in Zanjan City [PDF]

open access: yesمطالعات مدیریت توسعه سبز
IntroductionUrban green networks, referred to as green infrastructure, constitute a significant component of urban ecology. They provide numerous key ecosystem services and enhance urban resilience to climate change.
Ahmad zanganeh   +2 more
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Urban and rural green infrastructure.Two projects for the metropolitan city of Rome [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Create synergies between green infrastructure, urban and rural ...
Blasi, Carlo   +6 more
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Green infrastructure in relation to informal urban settlements

open access: yesJournal of Architecture and Urbanism, 2017
Green infrastructure plays a critical role in environmentally sustainable urbanization in developing countries. Based on a review of academic outputs, this paper explores green infrastructure in the context of informal urban settlements.
Olumuyiwa Bayode Adegun
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Siting Green Infrastructure: Legal and Policy Solutions to Alleviate Urban Poverty and Promote Healthy Communities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Green infrastructure is an economically and environmentally viable approach for water management and natural resource protection in urban areas. This Article argues that green infrastructure has additional and exceptional benefits for the urban poor ...
Dunn, Alexandra Dapolito
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Green Infrastructure Network Planning in Urban Fringe Areas Based on the Characteristics of Agricultural and Forestry Landscape Ecological Network in a Metropolitan City

open access: yesLand
Small-scale, dispersed agroforestry spaces in the urban fringe constitute ecological land that serves dual public benefit functions: natural ecological conservation and rural-urban services.
Dongmeng Wang   +5 more
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Identifying Cultural Ecosystem Services of Urban Green Infrastructure Report about a pilot project undertaken in Lower Austria [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Access to adequate environmental amenities is fundamental for the sustainability and quality of human life, requiring a better understanding of ecological patterns and processes in the places most people call home. As more people will live in cities than
Cassidy, Tim, Rottenbacher, Christine
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Requirements for Achieving the Social Benefits of Urban Green Infrastructure (UGI) [PDF]

open access: yesJES: Journal of Engineering Sciences
The rapid transformation of urban neighborhoods, alongside changing lifestyles, has prompted cities to prioritize not only mitigating climate stress but also improving the well-being of their residents.
Rehab Mahmoud
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Urban Green Infrastructure: Does Species’ Origin Impair Ecosystem Services Provision?

open access: yesLand, 2023
The adverse effects of urbanized areas’ growth might be mitigated by the multiple ecosystem services that urban green infrastructure provides. However, the design and composition of such infrastructure is still a hotly debated issue, mainly considering ...
Mónica Andrade   +3 more
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Special Issue: landscape urbanism and green infrastructure [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
With the notion of landscape urbanism long neglected, interlinkages between ecology and architecture in the built environment are becoming visible. Yet, the diversity in understandings of the interconnections between cities and nature is the starting ...
Panagopoulos, Thomas
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Mapping urban green infrastructure : a novel landscape-based approach to incorporating land-use and land-cover in the mapping of human-dominated systems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Common approaches to mapping green infrastructure in urbanized landscapes invariably focus on measures of land-use or land-cover and associated functional or physical traits.
Barlow, D   +10 more
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