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Combining land cover, animal behavior, and master plan regulations to assess landscape permeability for birds

open access: yes, 2021
Cities are new and expanding ecosystems that harbor a variety of habitats with different degrees of permeability to the local fauna. However, the assessment of urban landscape permeability usually considers biotic and abiotic conditions, with ...
Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet.   +1 more
core   +2 more sources

Visual aspects in urban woodland management and planning [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Urban woodland is an important component of people's everyday environment, both as an attractive environment to visit as well as being an intrinsic part of the surrounding landscape.
Ode, Åsa
core   +1 more source

Empirical Research on Regional Revitalization: A Case of Old Urban Railways

open access: yesEngineering Proceedings
Historically, railway facilities have been intertwined with daily life, communities, geography, and history, contributing to a rich cultural heritage and collective memory.
Wen-Bor Lu   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Cooling Effects of Landscape Configurations of Green–Blue Spaces in Urban Waterfront Community

open access: yesAtmosphere, 2023
Optimizing the configuration of green–blue spaces is crucial in mitigating the urban heat island effect. However, many existing studies neglect to consider the synergistic cooling effect of green–blue space and its spatial comparison, focusing instead on
Min Wang   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Terahertz Channel Modeling, Estimation and Localization in RIS‐Assisted Systems

open access: yesAdvanced Electronic Materials, EarlyView.
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces have become a recent intensive research focus. Based on practical applications, channel strategies for RIS‐assisted terahertz wireless communication systems are categorized into three different types: channel modeling, channel estimation, and channel localization.
Hongjing Wang   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainability and agenda 21: teaching sustainability ideology and landscape design practice

open access: yes, 2000
This paper reviews the 'Issues in Landscape Sustainability' subject/project that has been devised by Adelaide University's School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design.
David Jones   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Agronomic and Nutritional Perspectives on Vegetable Crops in Africa

open access: yesAgriFood: Journal of Agricultural Products for Food, EarlyView.
Vegetable production plays a key role in food security, nutrition, and livelihoods across Africa. Moreover, African indigenous vegetables emerge as underutilized yet highly valuable crops, rich in macro‐ and micronutrients, as well as bioactive compounds with an array of health benefits.
Đorđe Vojnović   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

An urban take on sustainable development policies and corresponding positioning strategies

open access: yesnpj Urban Sustainability, 2023
Cities have emerged as policy actors of global relevance in sustainable development, and their strengthened position challenges the primacy of national states in this area. To account for this shift and for potential emerging contestations between cities
Stefan Wittwer   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Regional Differences in U.S. Consumer Preferences for Native Woody Shrubs With Varying Aesthetic Characteristics

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Native plants offer a variety of aesthetic (e.g., fall colour, fruit, flowers) and functional benefits (e.g., pollinator friendly, wildlife friendly, water management). How these benefits influence consumer choice and perceived value of native versus introduced plants is not well understood.
Alicia Rihn   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Local habitat characteristics have a stronger effect than the surrounding urban landscape on beetle communities on green roofs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Green roofs are a promising tool to return nature to cities and mitigate biodiversity loss brought about by urbanization. Yet, we lack basic information on how green roofs contribute to biodiversity and how their placement in the urban landscape affects ...
Alexander Szallies   +20 more
core   +1 more source

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