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Towards developing sustainable design standards for waterfront open spaces

City, Territory and Architecture, 2022
Urban designers are interested while designing waterfront urban space with aesthetic standards and the process of visual perception, which depends only on Vision, while the rest of the human senses (H.S.) are overlooked, regardless of their importance ...
Shery William Salama
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Urban Waterfront Space in Macao: Distribution Characteristics, Existing Problems and Design Strategies [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences
As a new urban culture emerged, waterfront spaces underwent a historic transformation in terms of humanistic aspects, functionality, and spatiality by shifting their primary functions to include leisure tourism, landscape effects, ecological services ...
Li Xuefeng, Yue Qi, Sang Xinchun, Zhang Xiangguo   +3 more
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The impact of attributes of waterfront accessibility on human well-being: Alexandria Governorate as a case study

Ain Shams Engineering Journal, 2021
Waterfront accessibility is one of the major planning aspects of cities. However, tackling this issue from the Human Well-Being (HWB) perspective is relatively new.
Asma Othman, Khalid Al-Hagla, Asmaa E. Hasan   +2 more
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A Dynamic Business Modeling Approach to Port Sustainability: The Western Sicily Port Authority Case

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ports are critical nodes in global trade and economic development, yet they generate substantial environmental and social externalities—including greenhouse gas emissions, air, noise, and water pollution, and adverse impacts on host communities—that demand integrated and forward‐looking governance.
Martina Vivoli, Annalisa Tardino, Luca Lupi, Federico Cosenz   +3 more
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Unveiling spatial heterogeneity in urban underground space development patterns and mechanisms for differentiated planning: A points of interest‐based study of Shanghai

Deep Underground Science and Engineering, EarlyView.
This study investigated the spatial patterns and development mechanisms of urban underground space (UUS) in Shanghai using underground points of interest data. It revealed distinct development mechanisms between the main city and suburbs, highlighting the need for differentiated UUS planning and policies to optimize underground space resources ...
Chenxiao Ma, Fangle Peng, Yongkang Qiao, Yunhao Dong   +3 more
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Nested Carbon Governance in Southeast Asia: Towards Just Nature‐Based Solutions?

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nature‐based solutions (NbS) have gained prominence as an integrated approach to addressing climate change and biodiversity loss while supporting sustainable development. Yet, their implementation across Southeast Asia remains fragmented and often contested.
Helena Varkkey, Michelle Ann Miller, David Taylor   +2 more
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Residents Perceptions of Sustainable Urban Development: A Comparative Study Between Lima, Medellín, and San Salvador

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Urban sustainability assessments in Latin America have relied predominantly on institutional and technical indicators, leaving resident perceptions—a critical dimension of policy legitimacy—systematically underexplored. This study addresses that gap through a comparative analysis of how residents perceive sustainable urban development across ...
Juan Camilo Mesa‐Bedoya, Carlos M. Carcache Rivas, Fray L. Becerra‐Suarez, Mónica Díaz   +3 more
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Assessing Public Experience of Waterfronts and Its Coupling with Urban Vitality: Evidence from Shanghai, China

Land
Urban waterfronts are important components of urban blue-green infrastructure, supporting ecological functions and public activities. However, existing assessments often examine waterfronts from separate perspectives, limiting an integrated understanding
Xiangjun Lin, Lingge Zhai, Yaoyi Liu, Kgosietsile Velempini, Lingzhi Deng   +4 more
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Oxidative Stress Biomarkers in the Shrimp Macrobrachium amazonicum (Heller, 1862): Assessment in an Environmental Preservation Area in the Brazilian Amazon

Environmental Toxicology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Anthropogenic activities generate a significant amount of pollutants that are released into the environment, causing physiological and ecological disturbances. Among the xenobiotics present in aquatic ecosystems, numerous chemical and organic compounds have oxidative potential or are metabolized through oxidative processes, which may amplify ...
Natália Eduarda da Silva, Arllon José dos Santos Dias, Layane Vitoria dos Santos e Santos, Natalie de Matos Araujo, Darlan Coutinho dos Santos, Jefferson Romáryo Duarte da Luz, Gabriel Araujo‐Silva   +6 more
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Influence of urban waterfront appearance on public space functions

Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2012
Although the issue of urban waterfront is not entirely new, it still represents a very vivid topic. Urban waterfronts have for long been standing in the forefront of many architects and organizations, who are aware of their value and the potential a ...
Iva Hradilová
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