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Urban Sustainability: Integrating Socioeconomic and Environmental Data for Multi-Objective Assessment

open access: yesSustainability, 2022
The large concentration of the world’s population in cities, along with rapid urbanization, have brought numerous environmental and socioeconomic challenges to sustainable urban systems (SUS).
Yichun Xie   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Exploring Urban Sustainability Understanding and Behaviour: A Systematic Review towards a Conceptual Framework

open access: yesSustainability, 2021
Social, environmental, and economic problems related to urban living have surpassed the agenda of policy and decision-makers as well as general public opinion in recent decades.
H. Topal, D. Hunt, C. Rogers
semanticscholar   +1 more source

COVID-19 pandemic-related changes in wellness behavior among older Americans

open access: yesBMC 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
doaj   +1 more source

The Role of Cultural Heritage in Promoting Urban Sustainability: A Brief Review

open access: yesLand, 2022
Cities are hubs of social and cultural activity, and culture is key to what makes cities creative, and sustainable. The Post-2015 Development Agenda has prioritized culture and how it may help people and communities create the future they desire.
S. Naheed, S. Shooshtarian
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Urban Sustainability Performance Measurement of a Small Brazilian City

open access: yesSustainability, 2021
The population increase in cities implies the need to balance environmental, social, and economic demands in such a way that growth is guided by sustainable development.
Fernanda Caroline Caldatto   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Big Data-Driven Urban Management: Potential for Urban Sustainability

open access: yesLand, 2022
With the world’s rapidly growing urbanization, urban sustainability is now expected for urban life. Due to this rapid growth, meeting the emerging challenges for urban management and sustainability worldwide is challenging.
Min Wu   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Extraction of Urban Quality of Life Indicators Using Remote Sensing and Machine Learning: The Case of Al Ain City, United Arab Emirates (UAE)

open access: yesISPRS 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
doaj   +1 more source

The SDGs, Ecosystem Services and Cities: A Network Analysis of Current Research Innovation for Implementing Urban Sustainability

open access: yesSustainability, 2021
Ecosystem services are essential for cities and are key factors in achieving many of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Such services are best delivered through green infrastructure, which works in resourceful, multifunctional, synergistic, and ...
S. Hawken   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Multi-Objective Taguchi Optimization of Cement Concrete Incorporating Recycled Mixed Plastic Fine Aggregate Using Modified Fuller’s Equation

open access: yesBuildings, 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
doaj   +1 more source

An Examination of Consumers’ Opinions toward Adopting Electric Vehicles in the United Arab Emirates: On the Effects of Functional and Symbolic Values

open access: yesEnergies, 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
doaj   +1 more source

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