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REMOTE SENSING AND GIS FOR FOOD BANKS [PDF]
ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2022 Food banks play an important role in sustainability (saving food-reducing waste), economy, and social cohesion. Investment in food banks supports compassion, generosity, solidarity, and hospitality.
M. M. Yagoub +4 more
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Exploring the impact of environmental factors on soundscape perception for sustainable and resilient urban environments [PDF]
BIO Web of Conferences, 2023 The impacts of global climate change are becoming increasingly alarming, highlighting the need for sustainable urbanism practices. The soundscape has been identified as crucial for achieving sustainable development goals.
Abdul Hamid Nor Hamizah +7 more
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Promoting Social Equity and Building Resilience through Value-Inclusive Design
Buildings, 2023 Urban design and architecture have inadvertently contributed to the bifurcation of societies divided into haves and have-nots, thus undermining social equity, restricting opportunity, and resulting in poverty next to overabundance and waste.
Eric Harris, Anna Franz, Sabine O’Hara
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COVID-19 pandemic-related changes in wellness behavior among older Americans
BMC Public Health, 2021 Background COVID-19 has taken its toll on citizens in all 50 states of the United States. The United States (U.S.) leads the world with 30,291,863 confirmed reported cases and 549,664 deaths as of March 29, 2021 compared to globally confirmed cases at ...
Elgloria Harrison +8 more
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Externalities in urban sustainability [PDF]
Ecological Economics, 2002 This paper studies urban sustainability from the perspective ofexternalities. We develop a general spatialequilibrium model of a monocentric city, in which two types ofexternalities occur. On the one hand, pollution inthe industrial centre leads to a spatially differentiateddeterioration of the environmental quality in the residentialarea. On the other
Erik T. Verhoef, Peter Nijkamp
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GIS for Sustainable Urban Transport [PDF]
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2015 The world is urbanizing at a very fast pace. Modern geography, particularly geo-information systems (GIS) and global positioning systems (GPS) are reshaping the way urban and transport planners are collecting, exploring, synthesizing, analyzing, evaluating and presenting their data. [...]
Zuidgeest, M.H.P. +2 more
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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2022 Urban quality of life (UQoL) study is very important for many applications such as services distribution, urban planning, and socioeconomic analysis.
Mohamed. M. Yagoub +3 more
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Buildings, 2023 Motivated by the multiple benefits of recycling plastic ingredients in cementitious materials, the present study focuses on the design of sustainable cement concrete incorporating recycled mixed plastic fine aggregate (MPFA) as a partial replacement of ...
Kevin Jia Le Lee, Sook Fun Wong
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Energies, 2022 The aim of this study was to examine consumers’ opinions toward adopting electric vehicles (EVs) for light-duty transport in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from the functional value (i.e., the utility or benefit attained by consumers from the functions ...
Robert M. Bridi +2 more
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Nature Communications, 2021 The effectiveness of large historical efforts for decarbonizing steel production is unclear. Here, the authors show that such efficiency gains were offset by a booming steel demand increase. This has led to a stagnating decarbonization progress over past
Peng Wang +6 more
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