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Adaptation to the climate change and management of natural risks: searching for synthesis in urban planning
(PONTIFICA UNIV CATOLICA CHILE, INST GEOGRAFIA, 2016)
Since the late 1980s, a new vocabulary associated with concerns about climate change has emerged. Nevertheless, this article argues that the concepts used to describe urban adaptation are a part of the history of urban ...
The biodiversity of urban and peri-urban forests and the diverse ecosystem services they provide as socio-ecological systems
(2016)
Urban and peri-urban forests provide a variety of ecosystem service benefits for urban society. Recognising and understanding the many human-tree interactions that urban forests provide may be more complex but probably ...
Urban form datasets of 194 cities delineated based on the contiguous urban fabric for 1990 and 2015
(Elsevier Inc., 2020-12)
The present research datasets were processed for the article “The global homogenization of urban form. An assessment of 194 cities across time” [1]. They consist of land cover spatial layers, longitude and latitude point ...
Urbanization and urban growth in the Caribbean
(Cambridge University Press, 2011-09-06)
Urbanization and urban growth in the Caribbean
(Cambridge University Press, 2011-09-06)
The global homogenization of urban form. An assessment of 194 cities across time
(Elsevier B.V., 2020-12)
The spatial structure of cities, i.e. their composition, shape and degree of fragmentation or compactness, is a physical expression reflecting development efficiency. Identifying the evolution of urban systems in time and ...
Urban agriculture in Portugal: from spontaneity to the institutionalization of urban gardens
(Revues Org, 2019-01-01)
Urban agriculture came to stand out in the world scenario in the last years of the twentieth century and beginning of the XXI, due to the greater concern of the population with food security and the aggravation of social, ...
An ecosystemic approach for assessing the urban water self-sufficiency potential: lessons from the Mediterranean
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)
Frequent water stress episodes affecting urban hubs have caused a shift in urban water management towards integrated approaches and motivated a search for alternative water resources. Large-scale rainwater harvesting on ...