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Small mammal assemblages in fragmented shrublands of urban areas of Central Chile
(2013)
Mediterranean-type ecosystems are one of the most affected environments by habitat loss and fragmentation due to urban development, however only few studies have evaluated the effects of urbanization on the biodiversity ...
Gestión ambiental de tránsito: cómo la ingeniería de transporte puede contribuir a la mejoría del ambiente urbano
(PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE, 2004-05)
This paper introduces the concept of Environmental Traffic Management. The relevance of this paper Lies in the fact that this concept is almost unknown in Latin America. However, the Environmental Traffic Management has ...
Embedding urban sustainability through research, teaching and strategic planning
(Association of Architectural Educators (AAE), 2018-03)
In a world fundamentally changed by global warming and mass urbanization the question of urban sustainability is a central challenge for the professions of the built environment and the education of their professionals. ...
Building safer public spaces: Exploring gender difference in the perception of safety in public space through urban design interventions
(Elsevier, 2021)
Concern around personal safety is a significant factor in constraining women’s access to and use of public space. One strategy presented to address this involves altering the design of built environments. However, tension ...
Entropy as a measure of attractiveness and socioeconomic complexity in Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Area
(MDPI, 2020)
Defining and measuring spatial inequalities across the urban environment remains a complex and elusive task which has been facilitated by the increasing availability of large geolocated databases. In this study, we rely ...
Ecosystem services in urban ecological infrastructure of Latin America and the Caribbean: How do they contribute to urban planning?
(2020)
We developed a conceptual framework that describes the key role of ecosystem services in urban ecological infrastructure. From this framework we analyze how research on ecosystem services has been addressed in cities of ...
Magnetic and elemental characterization of the particulate matter deposited on leaves of urban trees in Santiago, Chile
(Springer, 2023)
Airborne particulate matter is a serious threat to human health, especially in fast-growing cities. In this study, we carried out a magnetic and elemental study on tree leaves used as passive captors and urban dust from ...
Effects of urban configuration on the wind energy distribution over a building
(Amer Inst Physics, 2015)
A numerical study to investigate the wind energy potential for various building configurations is
presented. Steady-state incompressible flow simulations were performed using the finite volume
method of ANSYS Fluent with ...
Climate change accelerates growth of urban trees in metropolises worldwide
(Nature Publishing Group, 2018)