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LoRaWAN and Urban Waste Management—A Trial [PDF]
Sensors, 2021 The city of Lisbon, as any other capital of a European country, has a large number of issues regarding managing waste and recycling containers spread throughout the city. This document presents the results of a study promoted by the Lisbon City Council for trialing LPWAN (Low-Power Wide-Area Network) technology for the waste management vertical under ...
Cruz, Nuno +2 more
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Stormwater Management in Urban and Rural Areas
, 2022 In past decades, traditional stormwater management in urban and rural areas was associated with a rapid transfer of water to sewage systems or ditches, which resulted in pollutants and large volumes of water being carried to rivers and streams [...
Jan K. Kazak +2 more
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Re-thinking urban flood management – time for a regime shift [PDF]
, 2016 Urban flooding is of growing concern due to increasing densification of urban areas, changes in land use, and climate change. The traditional engineering approach to flooding is designing single-purpose drainage systems, dams, and levees.
Nilsson, Jerry +40 more
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Rainwater Management in Urban Areas
, 2021 Rising levels of impervious surfaces in densely populated cities and climate change-related weather extremes such as heavy rain events or long dry weather periods provide us with new challenges for sustainable stormwater management in urban areas.
Brigitte Helmreich
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A Monitoring and Control System for Stormwater Management of Urban Green Infrastructure
, 2021 Urban green infrastructure (UGI) can be used as a sustainable stormwater management approach. UGI can bring numerous ecological benefits to cities, including increased urban resilience, increased availability of water resources, and optimization of ...
Jing Yang +3 more
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Urban management, urban poverty and urban governance: planning and land management in Maputo [PDF]
Environment and Urbanization, 2000 This paper reviews the approach to urban land management widely supported by international agencies, and its application in Maputo, the capital of Mozambique. It describes the scale of poverty in Maputo, where more than half the population is poor, including 30 percent who are destitute.
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Urban resilience – An urban management perspective
Journal of Urban Management, 2020 This paper seeks to contribute to the increasingly pressing debate on urban resilience. It does so from an urban manager's perspective. It reviews three conceptual approaches to the subject. These are then set against current urban development programmes in Kenya. It suggests a three-stage set of interventions.
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Geospatial big data for urban planning and urban management [PDF]
Geo-spatial Information Science, 2020 The recent ten years witnessed the great achievements on rich applications of Geospatial Big Data across a variety of disciplines.
Huayi Wu, Zhipeng Gui, Zelong Yang 0001
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, 2021 In recent years, many urban areas in Ethiopia have experienced frequent flood events as a result of climate change and urban sprawl. Unplanned and unsustainable poor urban storm water management strategies will aggravate the impact and frequency of flood
Assefa M. Melesse, Mengistu A. Jemberie
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Assessment of Effective Cultural Factorson Sustainable Management of Tehran [PDF]
مدیریت دولتی, 2013 In this research the effective cultural elements on sustainable development in city of Tehran has been studied. So, at first, the key issues of research has been defined and studied from different dimensions.
Mojtaba Amiri +2 more
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