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Predicting Event-Based Sediment and Heavy Metal Loads in Untreated Urban Runoff from Impermeable Surfaces [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Understanding the amount of pollutants contributed by impermeable urban surfaces during rain events is necessary for developing effective stormwater management.
O'Sullivan, Aisling D.   +5 more
core   +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

Systemic Inequity in Urban Flood Exposure and Damage Compensation

open access: yes, 2020
Urban flooding is a growing concern in Northern Europe. While all countries in this region invest substantial resources into urban flood risk management, all property owners have unequal opportunity to have their flood risk managed.
Larsson, Rolf   +12 more
core   +1 more source

Notas sobre el proceso de implementación de la agenda para la reforma urbana en Brasil

open access: yesEURE (Santiago) - Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Urbano Regionales, 2010
Este artículo describe el proceso de reforma urbana en Brasil desde la perspectiva de las innovaciones legales e institucionales verificadas en el país a partir de la promulgación de la Constitución Federal de 1988, las cuales incluyen el Estatuto de la ...
Edésio Fernandes
doaj  

Intelligent Sky Guardians (InSkyGuard): An Aerial Robotic Swarm for Autonomous Detection and Entrapment of Rogue Multirotors

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Intelligent Sky Guardians (InSkyGuard) is introduced as a four‐drone swarm that autonomously detects, tracks, and safely captures rogue drones using a coordinated net system. Computer vision and leader–follower control architecture enable synchronized enclosure, while integrated failsafes enhance system reliability. Validated through closed‐environment
Joshua Hastings   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

URBAN MANAGEMENT– CURRENT STRATEGIC APPROACHES [PDF]

open access: yes
In recent years urban management conceptual evolutions are more and more connected to the chances in public administration practice, in particular to ways of raising efficiency and effectiveness.
Ruxandra-Irina POPESCU   +1 more
core  

Transformative Approaches for Sustainable Water Management in the Urban Century

open access: yes, 2019
Sustainable Urban Water Management (SUWM) approaches highlighted in this special issue have the potential to contribute to the transformation of urban water systems.
Magnus Moglia, Stephen Cook
core   +1 more source

A Global Methane Observation System to Reduce Uncertainty for Anthropogenic and Natural Sources and Sinks for Detecting and Attributing Climate Feedbacks

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Conceptual illustration of a Global Ecosystem Methane Observing System (GEM‐OS) integrating satellites, aircraft, atmospheric networks, and ecosystem measurements to quantify methane emissions from anthropogenic and natural sources. The multi‐scale observing framework improves source attribution, reduces uncertainty in regional methane budgets, and ...
P. Ciais   +32 more
wiley   +1 more source

Action Research’s Potential to Foster Institutional Change for Urban Water Management

open access: yes, 2013
The paper discusses the potential of action research to meet the challenges entailed in institutional design for urban water management. Our overall aim is to briefly present action research and discuss its methodological merits with regard to the ...
Dimitrios Zikos, Andreas Thiel
core   +1 more source

Global Paradigm Shifts in Urban Stormwater Management Optimization: A Bibliometric Analysis

open access: yes, 2023
Amidst the growing urgency to mitigate the impacts of anthropogenic climate change, urban flooding stands out as a critical concern, necessitating effective stormwater management strategies.
Rana Muhammad Adnan Ikram   +5 more
core   +1 more source

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