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Powerful yet challenging: mechanistic niche models for predicting invasive species potential distribution under climate change

open access: yesEcography, EarlyView.
Risk assessments of invasive species present one of the most challenging applications of species distribution models (SDMs) due to the fundamental issues of distributional disequilibrium, niche changes, and truncation. Invasive species often occupy only a fraction of their potential environmental and geographic ranges, as their spatiotemporal dynamics ...
Erola Fenollosa   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Governance and City Regeneration – A New Methodological Approach for Design and Evaluation [PDF]

open access: yes
Governance has become a central topic among policymakers. There is an international consensus that policymaking is evolving from a traditional top-down government approach towards a system of governing that focuses on engaging the citizens within an area
Maria Manuel Serrano, Paulo Neto
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Over three‐quarters of earthworm species lack protection in China, a crisis exacerbated by climate change

open access: yesEcography, EarlyView.
Earthworms, as ‘ecosystem engineers', play a crucial role in regulating ecosystem functions and shaping community structures. Due to climate change, earthworms face severe survival pressures and extinction risks. However, whether conservation efforts targeting aboveground biodiversity can cover the long‐neglected earthworm diversity remains unknown. To
Yajie Zhou   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

What sort of justice for what sort of urban development? A systematic review and content analysis of urban regeneration programmes

open access: yesHungarian Geographical Bulletin
Urban regeneration interventions are known for attracting local and foreign investment in cities to improve neighbourhoods; however, the ongoing increase in these interventions has been associated with gentrification and the displacement of minority ...
Ntombifuthi P. Nzimande, Szabolcs Fabula
doaj   +1 more source

Real estate tax credits and other incentives for investing in historic property in the United States [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
This article reviews different incentives provided in the USA and makes comparisons to incentives offered in Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
Pickard, Rob, Pickerill, Tracey
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Hydrophobic eutectic solvent‐engineered membranes for highly permeable, selective, and antifouling pharmaceutical removal from municipal wastewater

open access: yesENERGY &ENVIRONMENTAL MATERIALS, EarlyView.
Single‐step incorporation of a hydrophobic deep eutectic solvent (HDES) into polyethersulfone ultrafiltration membranes via non‐solvent induced phase separation creates selective, antifouling membranes for pharmaceutical removal. The HDES nanodomains enhance permeability, electrostatic interactions, and adsorption affinity, enabling efficient and ...
Anjali Goyal   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rolul coaliţiilor de dezvoltare în regenerarea urbană. Cazul unui proiect de revitalizare a unei zone industriale din Bucureşti

open access: yesSociologie Românească, 2008
Urban Regeneration policies have been developed in Western countries in response to the negative effects cities were confronted with after undertaken processes of deindustrialization and suburban sprawl.
Ioana Petrescu
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URBAN REGENERATION THROUGH CULTURE [PDF]

open access: yesRevista Română de Geografie Politică, 2018
Cultural urban regeneration, is it myth or reality? The information below, aims to analyze the trend of urban regeneration through culture and if it can be used in the case of cities in Romania.First, the theoretical aspects with regard tourban ...
Miruna Cristina BOCA
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