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Effects of urbanization on host-pathogen interactions, using Yersinia in house sparrows as a model [PDF]
, 2017 Urbanization strongly affects biodiversity, altering natural communities and often leading to a reduced species richness. Yet, despite its increasingly recognized importance, how urbanization impacts on the health of individual animals, wildlife ...
Cox, Ivo +11 more
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cultural geographies, 2017 What is an urban atmosphere? How can we differentiate an ‘atmosphere’ from other facets of urban consciousness and experience? This essay explores some of the wider cultural, political, and philosophical connotations of atmospheres as a focal point for critical reflections on space and subjectivity.
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Improvement of the Environmental Permit and License Application Process in Turkey
International Journal of Environment and Geoinformatics, 2021 Improvement on the environmental permit application that has been put into force since 2014 by the By Law on Environmental Permit and License (BLEPL) in Turkey has been achieved through a project realized by the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization ...
Asude HANEDAR +18 more
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International Journal of Digital Earth, 2022 The dynamic population distributions by activity type (e.g. working, shopping or in-home) are vital for resource allocation, urban planning and epidemic containment.
Qingli Shi +3 more
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Dense Temperature Mapping and Heat Wave Risk Analysis Based on Multisource Remote Sensing Data
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2023 As high temperature and heat wave have become great threats to human survival, social stability, and ecological safety, it is of great significance to master the spatial and temporal dynamic changes of temperature to prevent high temperature and heat ...
Mengxi Liu +5 more
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Injected Urbanism? Exploring India’s Urbanizing Periphery
Economic Geography, 2022 Engaging with different literatures in economic geography, postcolonial urbanism, and planetary urbanization, this article seeks to develop a theoretical understanding of remote urban formations taking shape in India’s countryside. The analysis draws on extensive primary data collected at two study sites in Bihar and West Bengal, which rendered an ...
Robbin Jan van Duijne +2 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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Urban Sustainability and the SDGs: A Nordic Perspective and Opportunity for Integration
Urban Science, 2019 Urban sustainability has been used to cover multiple aspects of urban development. Terms related to sustainability have been generously used to advance ubiquitous and hard-to-measure targets not least in response to global and national sustainable ...
Emma Terama +3 more
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Beyond the artisanal mining site: migration, housing capital accumulation and indirect urbanization in East Africa [PDF]
, 2017 During the past 30 years, Tanzania has experienced successive precious mineral rushes led by artisanal miners. Their settlement, livelihood and housing strategies have evolved amidst high mobility in pursuit of mineral wealth.
Bryceson, Deborah Faye +1 more
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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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