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The Effects of Urban Policies on the Development of Urban Areas [PDF]

Sustainability, 2016
For more than a decade, the European Union recognizes soil as a common good and considers it as a finite resource of inestimable value. The European Union defines it as the “upper layer of earth’s crust, formed by mineral particles, organic matter, water, air and living organisms”.
Amato, F.a, Maimone, B.A.a, Martellozzo, F.b, Nolé, G.c, Murgante, B.a   +9 more
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Optimized Land–Water Management Expands Afforestation Potential Under Land and Human Water‐Use Constraints

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Human water demand constrains China's feasible afforestation potential more strongly than is commonly recognized, and future climate change further intensifies this limitation. Integrating land‐use optimization with water‐saving measures substantially expands feasible afforestation area and associated carbon sinks, revealing a practical pathway to ...
Binbin Huang, Fei Lu, Yuebo Su, Xuming Wang, Hua Zheng, Zhiyun Ouyang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Vine‐Inspired Soft Robotics: Materials, Actuations, and Emerging Applications

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Vine‐inspired robots grow from the tip, enabling navigation through confined spaces with minimal disturbance. This Review summarizes material and actuation strategies for vine‐inspired growth, key functions including steering, retraction, attachment, branching, and variable stiffness, and emerging applications spanning medical intervention, confined ...
Jiahao Wu, Xingyun Liu, Fangzhou Wang, Huili Ren, Chaojun Zhang, Ziyu Ren, Zunqi Liu, Jing Li   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Classifying bicycle sharing station roles using temporal imbalance profiles in Tokyo

Discover Cities
Bicycle Sharing Services (BSS) have become an important component of urban mobility, particularly in dense metropolitan areas where first- and last-mile connectivity is critical.
M Sana Ullah Khan, Fumiko Ito
doaj   +1 more source

The Usefulness of Freight Performance Measures in Urban Policy

, 2019
This dissertations investigates the usefulness of freight performance measurement (FPM) in urban policy. Currently, decision-makers determine policies with robust data on people movement but limited data for freight, especially for freight mobility as ...
Katsikides, Nicole
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Terahertz Channel Modeling, Estimation and Localization in RIS‐Assisted Systems

Advanced 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, Weipeng Wang, Xuan Cong, Shiyu Wang, Gao Li, Sen Gong, Lin Huang, Hongxin Zeng, Yaxin Zhang, Ziqiang Yang   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Housing Affordability Crisis: How Can We Address It?

Urban Planning
This thematic issue explores the dimensions of the housing affordability crisis from diverse perspectives. The six articles that comprise this issue differ in terms of their geographic context, challenges associated with housing unaffordability, range of
Ajay Garde, Qi Song
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Urban identity and planning: Conceptual study on identity of urban, identity in urban, and identity for urban [PDF]

Spatium
Urban identity is gaining increasing attention across different research disciplines. However, there is no consensus as to how this concept can be integrated into planning theory, because every discipline has diverse concepts of urban identity, which are
Umar Fitrawan, Winarso Haryo, Kustiwan Iwan   +2 more
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Influencing Urban Planning Policy: An Exploration from the Perspective of Public Health

, 2017
© 2017 Editorial Board, Urban Policy and Research. Human health requires the proper development and management of places through urban planning. This paper demonstrates how concerns for human health can become explicit matters for consideration in urban ...
Peter Sainsbury, Susan Thompson, Sainsbury, P, Harris, P, McCue, P, Thompson, S, Jennifer L. Kent, Patrick Harris, Fran Baum, Peter McCue, Kent, JL, Baum, F   +11 more
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Hemp Cultivation and Crop Diversification: Implications for Ecosystem Services in Kentucky

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the ecosystem benefits of expanding hemp cultivation by assessing its impact on crop diversity. Using scenario‐based simulations and fixed‐effect panel regressions with county‐level data in Kentucky, we find that increased hemp acreage tends to enhance crop diversity, improving water quality and bird diversity.
Yunsun Park, Seong D. Yun, Brandy E. Phipps, Tyler Mark, Craig Schluttenhofer   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source