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Financing Green Urban Infrastructure [PDF]

open access: yesOECD Regional Development Working Papers, 2012
This paper presents an overview of practices and challenges related to financing green sustainable cities. Cities are essential actors in stimulating green infrastructure; and urban finance is one of the promising ways in which this can be achieved. Cities are key investors in infrastructure with green potential, such as buildings, transport, water and
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Handbook on green infrastructure: Planning, design and implementation

open access: yes, 2015
© Danielle Sinnett, Nick Smith and Sarah Burgess 2015. All rights reserved. Green infrastructure is widely recognised as a valuable resource in our towns and cities and it is therefore crucial to understand, create, protect and manage this resource. This
Burgess, Sarah   +3 more
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Feasibility and Tolerability of Performing Portable MRI for Neurological Disorders in an Outpatient Neurology Clinic: A Prospective Cohort

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Accessing brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can be challenging, especially for underserved patients, which may lead to disparities in neurological diagnosis. Method This mixed‐methods study enrolled adults with one of four neurological disorders: mild cognitive impairment or dementia of the Alzheimer type, multiple sclerosis ...
Maya L. Mastick   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

Green Apartheid: Urban green infrastructure remains unequally distributed across income and race geographies in South Africa

open access: yes, 2020
Urban green infrastructure provides ecosystem services that are essential to human wellbeing. A dearth of national-scale assessments in the Global South has precluded the ability to explore how political regimes, such as the forced racial segregation in ...
Van Staden, Francini   +7 more
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Cumulative Social Disadvantage and Disease Activity in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: A Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance Registry Study

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Social determinants of health (SDOH) contribute to juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) disparities, but most studies have assessed SDOH independently rather than cumulatively across individual, family, and neighborhood levels. Using a socioecological framework, we investigated the relationship among cumulative social disadvantage ...
William Daniel Soulsby   +448 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
wiley   +1 more source

Multifunctionality in Urban Green Infrastructure: An integrated assessment and exploring the interactions between children and nature [PDF]

open access: yes
PhD thesis in City and regional planningUrban green infrastructure is critical for providing a wide range of ecosystem goods and services that benefit the urban population.
Korkou, Maria
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Study on the Value Model of Urban Green Infrastructure Development—A Case Study of the Central District of Taichung City

open access: yes, 2021
Urban green infrastructure has become an important concept for sustainable urban development. Regarding the joining up of green spaces into green networks, it can have major positive impacts on the environment, societies and economies, and ecology.
Jen-Chih Chao, Kuo-Wei Hsu
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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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Conceptual Model for Integrating the Green-Blue Infrastructure in Planning Using Geospatial Tools: Case Study of Bucharest, Romania Metropolitan Area

open access: yesLand, 2023
A green-blue infrastructure is essential for achieving the European Green Deal objectives and can be used to protect large cities and their metropolitan areas against urban sprawl.
Antonio-Valentin Tache   +2 more
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