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Integrating periurban agrarian ecosystem services into spatial planning to cope with urban pressure [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
According to Corine Land Cover databases, in Europe between 1990 and 2000,77% of new artificial surfaces were built on previous agrarian areas. Urban sprawl ¡s far from being under control, between 2000 and 2006 new artificial land has grown in larger ...
Simón Rojo, Marian
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Self-organization in urban development: towards a new perspective on spatial planning [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
To date, participatory spatial planning has produced disappointing results. We argue that one reason is that time and again participatory planning proposals remain controlled by public government, and that public government seems not to be very adaptive ...
Boelens, Luuk, Boonstra, Beitske
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Livestock Tango: U.S. and Latin America Dance Together, but Who Will Lead?

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the competitiveness between Latin American and U.S. livestock and meat sectors. We employ a computable general equilibrium modeling framework to evaluate two scenarios: coordinated improvements in Latin American productivity, transport efficiency, and market access (Scenario I), and the minimum productivity gains required ...
Taís C. Menezes   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prioritize spatial Urban Renaissance Localization Strategic Projects In Shahid Hasheminejad Range of Mashhad

open access: yesتحقيقات جغرافيايی, 2018
Introduction and Background: Failure to protect and rehabilitate inefficient urban areas often results from dissatisfaction and inactivity of people with regard to imitation and non-conformist versions of urban management practices for modernization. The
Morteza Asghari   +3 more
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Markets Mitigate Land‐Use Competition From Energy Crops and Increase Farm Revenues

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Meeting the US Sustainable Aviation Fuel Grand Challenge target of 35 billion gal annually by 2050 will require an estimated 380 million–700 million dry tons of agricultural biomass feedstock. This study evaluates the implications of large‐scale biomass production for land use, crop production, and market outcomes under mature market ...
Daniel G. De La Torre Ugarte   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enhancing urban analysis through lacunarity multiscale measurement [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Urban spatial configurations in most part of the developing countries showparticular urban forms associated with the more informal urban development ofthese areas.
Alves Junior, S, Barros Filho, M
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Of good plants and useless weeds: planning as a spatial technology of the gardening state [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The article deploys Bauman’s metaphor of the ‘gardening’ state to consider the imbrication of planning and the dark side of modernity. It interrogates the public production and defence of urban spaces suitable for people deemed to have value.
Kamete, Amin Y.
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Tax Policy and Farm Organization

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) introduced substantial changes to the tax code, affecting farms' organizational incentives. This study examines farms' responses to the TCJA along extensive and intensive margins, focusing on organizational and labor expense adjustments.
Tia M. McDonald, Katherine Lacy
wiley   +1 more source

Predicting building energy consumption in urban neighborhoods using machine learning algorithms

open access: yesFrontiers of Urban and Rural Planning
Assessing building energy consumption in urban neighborhoods at the early stages of urban planning assists decision-makers in developing detailed urban renewal plans and sustainable development strategies.
Qingrui Jiang   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

RISK, UNCERTAINTY, AND SPATIAL DISTINCTION: A STUDY OF URBAN PLANNING IN STOCKHOLM [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper examines urban planning in Stockholm, focusing on the proposal for a new comprehensive plan. It explores the problems urban planning has set out to solve and whether – and if so, how – the concepts of risk and uncertainty form part of the ...
Ylva UGGLA
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