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Soil SystemsUrbanization is a growing phenomenon affecting soils worldwide. Urban centers have been highlighted as hotspots for global change factors due to heightened anthropogenic activity.
Peter Meidl +6 more
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The association between green space and cause-specific mortality in urban New Zealand: an ecological analysis of green space utility [PDF]
, 2010 <b>Background:</b> There is mounting international evidence that exposure to green environments is associated with health benefits, including lower mortality rates.
A Comber +43 more
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Urban Deforestation and Urban Development [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011 This paper has developed a model of a single forest owner operating with perfect foresight in a dynamic open-city environment that allows for switching between alternative competing land uses (forest and urban use) at some point in the future. The model also incorporates external values of an even-aged standing forest in addition to the value of timber
Franco, Sofia +2 more
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CityScapeLab Berlin: A Research Platform for Untangling Urbanization Effects on Biodiversity [PDF]
, 2020 Urban biodiversity conservation requires an understanding of how urbanization modulates biodiversity patterns and the associated ecosystem services. While important advances have been made in the conceptual development of urban biodiversity research over
Buchholz, Sascha +4 more
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Urbanity mapping reveals the complexity, diffuseness, diversity, and connectivity of urbanized areas
Geography and SustainabilityThere are urgent calls for new approaches to map the global urban conditions of complexity, diffuseness, diversity, and connectivity. However, existing methods mostly focus on mapping urbanized areas as bio physical entities. Here, based on the continuum
Dawa Zhaxi +4 more
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Ambiances, 2017 In Downtown Kawasaki the presence of an industrial brownfield (ex-Toshiba factory) and the fact that commuters arriving from Tokyo just rushed towards their respective residential neighbourhoods combined in making the local characters of urbanity very ...
Denis Bocquet
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Odporność miast i nowe polityki miejskie
Politeja, 2021 Urban Resilience and New Urban Policies The article analyses new urban policies and the question of urban resilience. The author focus on two case studies: the examples of “superblocks” idea in Barcelona and the idea of “15-minute city” in Paris.
Paweł Kubicki
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American Journal of Public Health, 2001 Over the course of the 20th century, the United States became an urban nation: 80% of Americans now live in metropolitan areas. Supplying basic sanitary services—drinking water, sewers, and garbage removal—to these cities is a gargantuan task, yet most people have little understanding of urban infrastructure systems and their enormous regional ...
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Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.The cancer problem is increasing globally with projections up to the year 2050 showing unfavourable outcomes in terms of incidence and cancer‐related deaths. The main challenges are prevention, improved therapeutics resulting in increased cure rates and enhanced health‐related quality of life.
Ulrik Ringborg +43 more
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Worldwide, Many See Belief in God as Essential to Morality [PDF]
, 2014 This report examines whether people think it is necessary to believe in God in order to be a moral person. The results are based on surveys in 40 countries taken by the Pew Research Center in Spring 2011, Spring 2013, and Winter 2013 ...
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