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How urban green management is influencing passerine birds nesting in the Mediterranean: a case study in a Catalan city

open access: yes, 2019
The vegetation within the urban system provides sheltering and food provisions to birds, influencing their nesting options. This study analyses for the first time in the Mediterranean area how different socio-ecological factors related with public urban ...

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Modeling urban regions

open access: yes, 2021
Cellular automat​on (CA) are important tools that provide insight into urbanization dynamics and possible future patterns. The calibration process is the core theme of these models. This study compares the performance of two common machine-learning classifiers, random forest (RF), and support vector machines (SVM), to calibrate CA.
Rienow, Andreas (Jun.-Prof. Dr. rer. nat.)   +3 more
openaire   +1 more source

Agricultural Diversification at the Margin. Strategies and Determinants in Italian Mountain and Remote Areas

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the convergence in on‐farm diversification strategies of agricultural holdings, between remote areas and more central ones. Using Italian farm‐level data, we explore the determinants of diversification strategies across farms.
Gianluca Grilli   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
wiley   +1 more source

[Assessment of urban location factors from remote sensing] [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Highly-dynamic, explosively and unmanageably growing megacities arise throughout the world. This rapid alteration within the urban environment often results in a lack of reasonable information for city planning, risk management or site selection.
Taubenböck, Hannes, Roth, Achim
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Vendor Types, Attendance, Experience and Sales 2019–2021: Evidence From Five Rural Oregon Farmers Markets

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Farmers markets provide a direct‐to‐consumer marketing path for farmers and small businesses, facilitating customer discovery and product refinement. This paper explores farmers markets as a business incubator, with a focus on beginning vendors and resilience to a shock, namely, COVID‐19 market restrictions.
Mallory L. Rahe   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

ANALYSIS OF RENEWABLE ENERGY IN ROMANIA’S CENTER DEVELOPMENT REGION [PDF]

open access: yes
Nowadays various problems and requirements of the society and of the development of cities and regions may be solved by using environmental technologies that provide energy from different renewable sources.
Andreea Ileana ZAMFIR
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Assessment of three-dimensional distribution of thermal environment: A field study on outdoor spaces of academic building in severe cold region

open access: yesCase Studies in Thermal Engineering
In the context of rapid urbanization, challenges like the urban heat island effect have significantly reduced the efficiency and usability of outdoor spaces, especially in cold regions where maximizing summer usage of outdoor areas holds more value. This
Bo Wang   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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