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Noise pollution and the functional design of urban environments
(Institute of Noise Control Engineering, 2017)
Urban environment interventions linked to the promotion of physical activity: a mixed methods study applied to the urban context of Latin America
(Elsevier, 2015)
This study summarizes the evidence from quantitative systematic reviews that assessed the association between urban environment attributes and physical activity. It also documents sociopolitical barriers and facilitators ...
Emotional Perception of Urban Environments
(David Publishing Company, 2014-03)
In the frame of a study aiming at identifying the potential of emotion as the affective component of perception, a questionnaire was developed for assessing the involvement of this dimension in the perception of urban ...
Urbanization has opposite effects on the territory size of two passerine birds
(2020-04-28)
Background: Urban expansion has been identified as one of the leading drivers of biodiversity change or loss. For birds, urbanization is specifically related to survival, breeding success, and territory size. Understanding ...
Acoustic environment and Urban sustainable development in the city of Cáceres
(International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration, IIAV, 2017)
Overcoming urban sustainability: A route for Latin America [Superar la sostenibilidad urbana: Una ruta para América Latina1]
(UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA, 2017-04-01)
The present work of reflection is a theoretical analysis on urban sustainability and urban political ecology. The development of the article explores how urban sustainability and urban political ecology assume the dialectic ...
Mental well-being and the influence of place: conceptual approaches for the built environment for planning healthy and walkable cities
(MDPI, 2021)
Promotion of healthy cities has prompted urban planners and designers to build new conceptual frameworks to improve the design of public spaces, in which mental well-being emerges as a fundamental concept. Mental well-being ...
Urban exploiters have broader dietary niches than urban avoiders
(Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc, 2019-04)
Urbanization is currently one of the most pervasive threats to biodiversity worldwide, yet traits permitting birds to exploit urban environments are not fully understood. I used bird traits related to diet (dietary item ...
Urbanicity and nutrition: evidence from rural–urban migrants in China
(Emerald Group Publishing, 2021)