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Urban resilience and sustainability through and beyond crisis – evidence-based analysis and lessons learned from selected European cities [PDF]

open access: yes
Purpose Despite striving for resilience and a sustainable urban future, European cities face a multitude of crisis caused by both natural and human-induced risks.
MacLean, Laura   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

Trends and Current Situation of China's Meat Sector

open access: yesAnimal Research and One Health, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As the world's largest meat producer, consumer, and importer, China's meat sector has undergone profound transformation over the past decade, driven by biological crises (e.g., African Swine Fever), environmental policies, and global market integration. This study analyzes the sector's production restructuring, consumption diversification, and
Zengyong Zhu
wiley   +1 more source

Multi-Scale Simulation of Urban Underpass Inundation During Extreme Rainfalls: A 2.8 km Long Tunnel in Shanghai

open access: yesBuildings
Urban underpasses are critical flood-prone hotspots during extreme rainfall, posing significant threats to urban resilience and infrastructure safety.
Li Teng   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Heat Stress in Quail: Impacts on Health and Productivity, and Mitigation Strategies

open access: yesAnimal Research and One Health, EarlyView.
Heat stress disrupts physiological homeostasis in quail, inducing oxidative stress, immune dysregulation, and metabolic imbalance, which impair growth, reproduction, product quality, and welfare. Integrating nutritional, environmental, and genetic–epigenetic strategies enhances thermotolerance, sustains productivity, and supports climate‐smart quail ...
T. A. Eletu   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prioritizing heat adaptation measures across Indian cities: a benefit-cost analysis

open access: yesnpj Urban Sustainability
Although deaths and economic losses from heat are rising globally, heat stress remains a “hidden hazard” due to measurement and valuation challenges. In India, cities are implementing Heat Action Plans, combining cooling measures like urban greening and ...
Sacha Takacs   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Building Stronger Suburbs: Adaptability and Resilience Best Practices From Suburban Houston

open access: yes, 2016
This report highlights best practices for creating resilient and adaptable development in diverse suburban communities, looking at several case studies around the Houston area.
Shelton, Kyle
core   +1 more source

Leveraging Big Multitemporal Multisource Satellite Data and Artificial Intelligence for the Detection of Complex and Invisible Features: The Case of Extensive Irrigation Mapping

open access: yesArchaeological Prospection, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The detection of buried or obscured archaeological features remains a central challenge in landscape archaeology, particularly in the irrigated floodplains of Mesopotamia where levees and canals formed the basis of complex agrarian systems. This study presents a deep learning–based approach for the large‐scale, automated detection of ancient ...
Nazarij Buławka   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Urban Resilience and City Infrastructure Urban resilience of Baghdad

open access: yesThe Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning, 2019
Sanaa Abbas, Sura Ameen
openaire   +1 more source

Resilient urban water services

open access: yes, 2019
The sustainable development of cities is threatened by a worldwide water crisis, which puts urban water services (including drinking water, sanitation, and drainage) at increasing risk.
Wamsler, Christine,   +3 more
core  

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