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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.
Haihong Song +4 more
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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
Sierra Woodruff +8 more
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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
Adrienne Grêt-Regamey +1 more
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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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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
Yves M. Räth +4 more
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Place Mapping – transect walks in Arctic urban landscapes
Spool, 2016 This article investigates how experimental forms of urban mapping can reveal the particularity of places in non-standard urban situations with the intention of moving beyond the reductivism of still-dominant modernist modes of mapping and associated ...
Peter Hemmersam, Andrew Morrison
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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
Sergio Wicki +3 more
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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.
Victoria Junquera +1 more
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Planting Design and Wayfinding for University Campus: Space Syntax as a Landscape Design Assessment Tool [PDF]
توسعه پایدار شهری, 2023 The spatial characteristics of outdoor places are significantly influenced by trees. Using space syntax theory, this study examines how the spatial arrangement created by the suggested trees planting design and wayfinding affects the visual fields of a ...
Masoomeh Charousaei +2 more
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Post-Fordist Production and Urban Industrial Land Use Patterns
Urban Planning, 2021 Economic restructuring of the 21st century is changing the production methods and location requirements of most industries. Mass production on the outskirts of cities, as was common in 20th century Fordism, is largely being replaced by an economic model ...
Frank Roost, Elisabeth Jeckel
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