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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2023 The Yellow River Basin is an important energy base and economic belt in China, but its water resources are scarce, its ecology is fragile, and the task of achieving the goal of carbon peak and carbon neutrality is arduous.
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Climate Risk Management, 2021 As climate change increases flood risk, there is growing recognition that the multiple plans cities adopt often work at cross purposes and encourage development in areas at risk of current and future flooding. There have been calls for a more coordinated
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Identifying, Exploring and Verifying Resilient Grading System for Parks under the Disaster Context of Floods and Winds [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2021 In our living environment, we frequently encounter natural disasters such as typhoons, floods, earthquakes, drought, petrochemical plant safety accident, stripping accident and so on.
Pan Hao-Zhang, Ou Sheng-Jung
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Global urban homogenization and the loss of emotions
Scientific Reports, 2022 Urban expansion is generating unprecedented homogenization of landscapes across the world. This uniformization of urban forms brings along dramatic environmental, social, and health problems. Reverting such processes requires activating people’s sense of
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Settlement relationships and their morphological homogeneity across time and scale
Scientific Reports, 2023 Homogeneous settlement morphologies negatively impact urban vibrancy, the environment, and emotions. Mainly resulting from the separation of functions such as work and living, homogeneous settlements have often been found around large cities. However, it
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Proceedings 24th ISUF 2017 - City and Territory in the Globalization Age, 2017 URBAN LANDSCAPE ASSESSMENT Vicente Collado Capilla1 and Sonia Gómez-Pardo Gabaldón21Servicio de Infraestructura Verde y Paisaje. Generalitat Valenciana. Ciutat Administrativa 9 D'Octubre-Torre 1, C/ Castán Tobeñas 77, 46018 Valencia; 2Servicio Territorial de Urbanismo. Provincia de Valencia. Generalitat Valenciana. Prop I, C/ Gregorio Gea, nº 27, 46009
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Does land use and landscape contribute to self-harm? A sustainability cities framework [PDF]
, 2020 Self-harm has become one of the leading causes of mortality in developed countries. The overall rate for suicide in Canada is 11.3 per 100,000 according to Statistics Canada in 2015.
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Affordances of Historic Urban Landscapes: an Ecological Understanding of Human Interaction with the Past [PDF]
, 2014 Heritage has been defined differently in European contexts. Despite differences, a common challenge for historic urban landscape management is the integration of tangible and intangible heritage. Integration demands an active view of perception and human-
Alves, Susana
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Assessing livelihood vulnerability using a Bayesian network: a case study in northern Laos
Ecology and Society, 2020 Agricultural transitions from subsistence to export-oriented production make households more reliant on volatile agricultural commodity markets and can increase households' exposure to crop price and yield shocks.
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Archetypes of social-ecological-technological systems for managing ecological infrastructure
Environmental Research Letters, 2023 The concept of ecological infrastructure (EI) as a lens for landscape management has the potential to address environmental challenges, such as biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation, by instrumentalizing Nature’s Contributions to People (NCP). NCPs
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