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Peasants’ Land Rights Claims Over Plantation Companies’ Sites in Central Java, Indonesia (1998-2014)
Indonesia Law Review, 2016 This article reveals the opening of political and legal opportunities for the landless peasants of Central Java at the end of the 1990s to reclaim their lands that were confiscated during the end of the 1950s through a nationalization program to take ...
Siti Rakhma Mary Herwati +1 more
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Diverging perceptions by social groups on cultural ecosystem services provided by urban green
Landscape and Urban Planning, 2018 Global environmental and social changes will have great impact on the development of cities in the coming decades. Impacts of climate change, demographic shifts and conservation of biodiversity should be incorporated into urban green space planning to ...
Maraja Riechers +2 more
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Sustainability, 2018 Sustainable urban transport requires smart and environmentally-friendly technical solutions. It also needs to meet the demands of different user groups, including current and potential future users, in order to avoid opposition of the citizens and to ...
O. Ghorbanzadeh +3 more
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, 2021 In light of the rapid global urbanization, providing a better quality of life in cities is becoming an increasingly critical issue for urban planning.
Konstantinos Mouratidis
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Surface urban heat island effects intensify more rapidly in lower income countries
npj Urban SustainabilityAs urbanization proceeds globally in recent decades, a nuanced understanding of the differential impacts of the urban heat island (UHI) effect across income country groups is crucial.
Yuan Yuan +10 more
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Sustainability, 2018 This study estimates the factors affecting socially vulnerable groups’ demand for and accessibility levels to green public spaces in Dhaka City, Bangladesh. Dhaka is a high-density city with one of the lowest levels of green space per capita in the world.
K. Rahman, Dunfu Zhang
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Emergent groups and spontaneous volunteers in urban disaster response
, 2017 Spontaneous responses by self-organizing, “emergent” voluntary groups and individuals are a common feature of urban disasters. Their activities include search and rescue, transporting and distributing relief supplies, and providing food and drink to ...
J. Twigg, I. Mosel
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Linking public urban green spaces and human well-being: A systematic review
, 2021 Public urban green spaces provide people with many benefits. Understanding the relationship between public urban green spaces’ characteristics and human well-being components may assist in future planning and design of these spaces.
R. Reyes-Riveros +5 more
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Contrasting distributions of urban green infrastructure across social and ethno-racial groups
Landscape and Urban Planning, 2018 Links between urban green infrastructure (UGI) and public health benefits are becoming well established. Despite this, how UGI is distributed varies widely.
M. Ferguson +3 more
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Group Segregation and Urban Violence
American Journal of Political Science, 2013 How does segregation shape intergroup violence in contested urban spaces? Should nominal rivals be kept separate or instead more closely integrated? We develop an empirically grounded agent‐based model to understand the sources and patterns of violence in urban areas, employing Jerusalem as a demonstration case and seeding our model with microlevel ...
Ravi Bhavnani +4 more
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