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Strategic green infrastructure planning and urban forestry

, 2017
The green infrastructure (GI) approach, which takes an integrative perspective on a city's or city region's green spaces, has rapidly become accepted as a policy and planning tool.
Hansen, Rieke, Davies, Clive, Lafortezza, Raffaele, Pauleit, Stephan, Sanesi, Giovanni   +4 more
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Lidar‐Based Object Tracking of Traffic Participants with Sensor Nodes in Existing Urban Infrastructure

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This paper presents a lidar‐based sensor node design and a rule‐based state observer for edge‐based traffic participant tracking. Unlike other state‐of‐the‐art methods, this state observer enables real‐time, CPU‐only edge processing without relying on machine learning approaches.
Simon Schäfer, Bassam Alrifaee, Ehsan Hashemi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Gate‐Align‐SED: Semi‐Supervised Sound Event Detection via Adaptive Feature Gating and Cross‐Task Alignment in Situation Awareness

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Overview of the proposed Gate‐Align‐SED, including two stages of training: (1) Mean‐Teacher SSL Training; and (2) Enhancer Model Training. In complex real‐world environments such as disaster monitoring, effective sound event detection (SED) is often hindered by the presence of noise and limited labeled data.
Jieli Chen, Li‐Minn Ang, Chee Shen Lim, Kah Phooi Seng, Jeremy Smith   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing the effect of urban digital infrastructure on green innovation: mechanism identification and spatial-temporal characteristics

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Under the background of digitization and greening in China, digital infrastructure offers new opportunities for developing green innovation. This paper investigates the effect of digital infrastructure on urban green innovation using panel data from 285 ...
Chengming Li, Meiyu Wen, Shaoxiang Jiang, Huaxing Wang   +3 more
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Prediction of Urban Trees Planting Base on Guided Cellular Automata to Enhance the Connection of Green Infrastructure

, 2023
Urbanization and climate change pose significant challenges to urban ecosystems, underscoring the necessity for innovative strategies to enhance urban green infrastructure.
Sheng-Yang Huang, Yi Le
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Uncovering renewable energy policy impact channels on land values, the local farm structure, and farmland heterogeneity

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Germany's Renewable Energy Sources Act (REA), enacted in 2000 and subsequently amended, subsidized national renewable energy production with fixed feed‐in tariffs for renewable energy sources (RE) from wind, solar, and biogas. Empirical studies suggest that the policy was creating windfall effects for landowners and attribute farmland use ...
Lars Isenhardt, Stefan Seifert, Saskia Wolff, Tobia Lakes, Marten Graubner, Axel Werwatz, Silke Hüttel   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multifunctional and Multiscale Aspects of Green Infrastructure in Contemporary Research

Problemy Ekorozwoju, 2014
This paper provides information on the definition and benefits of green infrastructure, outlines the green infrastructure solutions and technics and their influence on multifunctionalty and multiscale of current research.
Anna Zaręba
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The concept of green infrastructure and urban landscape planning: a challenge for urban forestry planning in Belgrade, Serbia

iForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry, 2018
The beginning of the 21st century has witnessed a growth in our understanding of the importance of planning urban landscapes in the context of urban population growth and unpredictable climatic conditions.
Vasiljević N, Radić B, Gavrilović S, Šljukić B, Medarević M, Ristić R   +5 more
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Negotiating contested spaces and places: Narratives of social suffering and resistance in racialized Cape Town communities

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This study employs a schizocartographic approach to explore community narratives of space, memory, and violence in Kraaifontein, Cape Town. Through participants' accounts, ordinary places—gardens, shops, blocks, sports grounds, and streets—emerge as ambivalent geographies where trauma, resilience, and belonging intersect.
Guido Veronese, Chiara Fiscone, Ashraf Kagee   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding and Assessing Climate Change Risk to Green Infrastructure: Experiences from Greater Manchester (UK)

Land
The existing body of research into the environmental and socio-economic benefits of green infrastructure supports the case for it to be positioned as a form of critical infrastructure, particularly in urban settings. It is broadly recognized that extreme
Jeremy Carter, S.M. Labib, Ian Mell
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