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Who Holds the Strings? Hybrid Governance in Small States

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how governance in Caribbean small island developing states (SIDS) is reshaped by enduring postcolonial legacies, recurrent crises, and deepening global interdependence. It highlights turbulence, understood as a structural, generative condition of fragmented and recombining authority, as its central analytical contribution ...
Dana‐Marie Ramjit
wiley   +1 more source

Urban typology

open access: yes
Report on the development, application and value of the city typology (UNIMAN, TNO).
openaire   +1 more source

Bridging ecological restoration and social legitimacy: A systematic review of cultural ecosystem services in inland aquatic ecosystems

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract The long‐term success of inland aquatic ecosystem restoration depends not only on ecological outcomes but on whether people value and engage with the restored ecosystems. Cultural ecosystem services (CES) is the dimension where this engagement takes shape, yet they remain systematically excluded from the decisions that determine how these ...
Francesc Comalada   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Which biodiversity futures? Towards coherent design choices for scenarios exploring policy‐relevant questions

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Decision‐makers are under pressure to take transformative action to address the biodiversity crisis. Scenarios can inform these decisions by exploring alternative future states of the world influencing biodiversity loss and the outcomes of actions to address it.
Anita Lazurko   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Central Europe: urban typology based on airport location and accessibility

open access: yes, 2008
Air transport in Central Europe has been undergoing a dynamic development after 1990. The main causes are the changing organisational framework in connection with deregulations as well as changing political, economic and social context of Central ...
Seidenglanz, Daniel
core  

The typology of courtyard space in Najdi Architecture, Saudi Arabia: a response to human needs, culture, and the environment

open access: yesJournal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering
This study seeks to identify the significant characteristics of the traditional Najdi courtyard in Saudi Arabia in order to comprehend the typology and applicability of courtyard patterns in Najdi dense urban neighborhoods.
Mohammed Mashary Alnaim
doaj   +1 more source

Water security from Indigenous knowledge perspective: A scoping review

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Water security is a growing field of research in water resources management and has been increasingly examined from the perspectives of Indigenous knowledge. This study presents a scoping review that explores how Indigenous knowledge perspectives on water security are represented in the scientific literature.
Cueva‐Orjuela Juan   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Modeling Water Quality and Urban Typology in iUTAH GAMUT Watersheds

open access: yes, 2016
The intersection of human activity and water quality is a major focus of aquatic research, as we try to understand and then minimize the impacts of land-use change on this precious resource.
Aanderud, Zachary, Jones, Erin
core  

The geography of structural vulnerability: intersections of climate exposure, ecological insulation, and economic capacity

open access: yesnpj Urban Sustainability
Urban vulnerability to climate change is shaped not only by environmental exposure but also by structural inequalities embedded in the spatial distribution of ecological resources and economic capacity.
Yookyung Lee, Seungwoo Han
doaj   +1 more source

Tracing change in the public perception of plants: insights from archives and social media in China

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
As urbanization accelerates, historic gardens serve as vital cultural treasures that offer spiritual and cultural support to the public. This study proposes an innovative approach that merges historical records from the Qing Dynasty with contemporary social media data to explore changes in public perceptions of these gardens.
Dong Xu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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