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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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Scientific Reports, 2023 The damaged indoor nonstructural components in the earthquake often cause casualties. To improve the indoor earthquake safety capacity of occupants, a mixed reality (MR) drill method for indoor earthquake safety considering seismic damage of ...
Zhen Xu +3 more
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Global projections of future urban land expansion under shared socioeconomic pathways
Nature Communications, 2020 Shared socioeconomic pathways (SSPs) is a crucial scenario describing the potential of future socio-economic development. The authors here investigate long-term effects of various government policies suggested by different SSPs on urban land and reveal ...
Guangzhao Chen +10 more
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Defining urban and rural regions by multifractal spectrums of urbanization [PDF]
Fractals, 2016, 24(1): 1650004, 2015 The spatial pattern of urban-rural regional system is associated with the dynamic process of urbanization. How to characterize the urban-rural terrain using quantitative measurement is a difficult problem remaining to be solved. This paper is devoted to defining urban and rural regions using ideas from fractals.
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Urbanization Issues Affecting Food System Sustainability [PDF]
, 2019 This chapter identifies urbanization issues affecting food system sustainability. Since the nineteenth century and the onset of industrialization, cities have been both the product and motor of food systems, which are expanding worldwide despite the ...
Barles, Sabine +3 more
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Hydro-ecological controls on riverine organic carbon dynamics in the tropical monsoon region
Scientific Reports, 2019 Transport fluxes and properties of riverine organic carbon in the tropical monsoon region were the vital parameters in the global riverine organic carbon fluxes budget.
Qianzhu Zhang +8 more
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Urban commons and urban struggles [PDF]
Focaal, 2013 Ida Susser and Stéphane Tonnelat are right to view the question of the urban commons in global cities as a crucial issue. It has precipitated massive urban and often violent struggles. We know that the ideological basis of these fights is very similar from one continent to another.
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IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2022 Nonagriculturalization incidents are serious threats to local agricultural ecosystem and global food security. Remote sensing change detection (CD) can provide an effective approach for in-time detection and prevention of such incidents.
Mengxi Liu +3 more
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Urban Generative Intelligence (UGI): A Foundational Platform for Agents in Embodied City Environment [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Urban environments, characterized by their complex, multi-layered networks encompassing physical, social, economic, and environmental dimensions, face significant challenges in the face of rapid urbanization. These challenges, ranging from traffic congestion and pollution to social inequality, call for advanced technological interventions.
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Urbanization, Inequality, and Poverty in the People’s Republic of China [PDF]
, 2016 Relying on the present literature, official statistics, and household survey data in the People’s Republic of China, this paper summarizes research findings on the relationship between urbanization, urban–rural inequality, and poverty, and provides ...
Zhang, Yuan
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