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Promoting ecosystem and human health in urban areas using green infrastructure: A literature review [PDF]

, 2007
Europe is a highly urbanised continent. The consequent loss and degradation of urban and peri-urban green space could adversely affect ecosystems as well as human health and well-being.
Aleksandra Kaźmierczak, Barrett, Bartley, Beier, Bengtsson, Bixler, Bodin, Bolund, Booth, Bratton, Brunner, Brussard, Butler, Cairns, Calow, Collins, Costanza, Costanza, Davey-Smith, Davey-Smith, de Groot, de Leo, de Vries, Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, Diez-Roux, Diez-Roux, Diez-Roux, Dunn, Ehrlich, Faber-Taylor, Flores, Grimm, Haddad, Haeuber, Haila, Hartig, Hartig, Henwood, Hobbs, Horwitz, Humpel, Humpel, Jari Niemela, Jongman, Kalevi Korpela, Kaplan, Kaplan, Kim, Kinzig, Konstantinos Tzoulas, Korpela, Korpela, Korpela, Korpela, Korpela, Korpela, Kuo, Kuo, Kuo, Kuo, Lackey, Levin, Li, Loreau, Lu, Macintyre, Macintyre, Mageau, Mayer, Millennium Assessment, Moss, Naeem, Newell, Noss, Odum, Opdam, O’Campo, Paton, Patz, Payne, Philip James, Pickett, Pickett, Pikora, Rapport, Rapport, Rapport, Rapport, Rioux, Ross, Rudlin, Sallis, Sandström, Schrijnen, Simberloff, St Leger, Stephen Venn, Stokols, Takano, Tanaka, Tilman, Troyer, Turner, Turner, Ulrich, Ulrich, Ulrich, van der Ryn, van Kamp, Vesa Yli-Pelkonen, Walmsley, Wells, Westphal, Whitford, Wicklum, Wilson, Yli-Pelkonen, Zielhuis, Zielinski-Gutierrez, Zipperer   +119 more
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Geographies of Skateboarding - Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead, UK [PDF]

, 2010
This map is the result of a year-long research project on the geographies of skateboarding in Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead, UK. Skateboarders are often seen as invaders of urban space, subverting it for their own purposes, contrary to the normative ...
Jeffries, Mike, Jenson, Adam, Swords, Jon, The skaters of Tyneside   +3 more
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Determination method of fatigue strength and precursors of fatigue failure of porous weakly cemented siltstone

Meitan xuebao, 2023
In order to study the fatigue behavior of porous weakly cemented siltstone, a quantitative calculation method of characteristic stress was established based on uniaxial step loading and unloading tests of siltstone.
Mingchun LIANG, Shengjun MIAO, Meifeng CAI, Zhengjun HUANG, Hui WANG   +4 more
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Mechanism of country rock damage and failure in deep shaft excavation under high pore pressure and asymmetric geostress

工程科学学报, 2020
With the development of the mining industry, a large number of accessible shallow mineral resources are being depleted, and some have now been completely exhausted.
Li-yuan LIU, Hong-guang JI, Tao WANG, Feng PEI, Dao-lu QUAN   +4 more
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The Role of the Body in Pandemic Geographies of Encounter: Anti-Restriction Protesters Between Collective Action and Political Violence

Urban Planning, 2023
This article looks at public anti-restriction protests by framing public space as a vital component of urban life. It argues that the body is rarely introduced as a scale of spatial analysis and usually plays a more prominent role in the subfields of ...
Sabine Knierbein, Richard Pfeifer
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Experimental study on disaster mechanism of completely weathered granite landslide induced by extreme rainfall

Geoenvironmental Disasters, 2023
Background With the increased frequency of extreme weather, landslides induced by extremely heavy rainfall pose a major threat to human lives and property safety. In July 2020, a landslide occurred in the strongly weathered Laoshan Scenic Spot in Qingdao,
Honghua Liu, Peng Yu, Haitao Lu, Yongjian Xie, Zhongsheng Wang, Shengyou Hao, Hongjun Liu, Yunxia Fu   +7 more
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Development of urban underground space in coastal cities in China: A review

Deep Underground Science and Engineering, 2023
The development of urban underground space is a critical way to alleviate the lack of urban resources, and improve environmental conditions as well as residents' quality of life, which has important practical significance.
Peng Yu, Honghua Liu, Zhongsheng Wang, Jiani Fu, Hui Zhang, Jia Wang, Qi Yang   +6 more
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Numerical Study on the Evolution of Mesoscopic Properties and Permeability in Sandstone Under Hydromechanical Coupling Conditions Involving Industrial Internet of Things

IEEE Access, 2018
In an attempt to study microcracks development, coordination number, volumetric strain, and permeability evolution of sandstone, the hydromechanical coupling mesoscopic simulation was carried out using Particle Flow Code 2D software based on experimental
Yanyan Cai, Xu Chen, Jin Yu, Jianfeng Zhou   +3 more
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Urban Spaces

, 2023
This entry offers some reflections on memory activism, with particular attention to ideological and structural transformation in cities, and changes in the way historical consciousness has been practically articulated in contemporary urban society. Studying urban memory activism offers a method to attain a more complex picture of the diverse agents in ...
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Ecosystem (dis)benefits arising from formal and informal land-use in Manchester (UK); a case study of urban soil characteristics associated with local green space management [PDF]

, 2020
Urban soils are subject to anthropogenic influences and, reciprocally, provide benefits and dis-benefits to human wellbeing; for example carbon storage, nutrient cycling and the regulation trace element and contaminant mobility. Collective stewardship of
Beesley, L, Dennis, M, Hardman, M, James, P   +3 more
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