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Geomorphology, land use, and environmental impacts in a densely populated urban catchment of Costa Rica
(2021)
The Torres River is one of the most urbanized catchments in Costa Rica, with only 46.67 km2 and approximately 50% of its area have urban land uses comprising nearly 13% of the national population. The quick rural-urban ...
Glyphosate in Urban Rivers: Environmental and Health Impacts
(External Scientific Advisory Committe (ESAC), 2012)
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 ...
Evaluation of neighborhood impacts caused by companies of the high-tech industrial cluster of São Carlos, SP, Brazil
(2008-12-01)
The purpose of this study was to develop a methodology for evaluating neighborhood impacts using a Geographic Information System (GIS) and to apply the procedures to the companies of the High-Technology Industrial Cluster ...
Urbanicity and nutrition: evidence from rural–urban migrants in China
(Emerald Group Publishing, 2021)
Unplanned urban growth and its potential impacts on bird species in a south american city
(2020-01-01)
South American cities have been expanding extremely fast and with reduced urban planning, which can lead to significant biodiversity loss. In this study, it was assessed the potential consequences of unplanned urban growth ...
Regulation and informal settlements in Brazil: a quasi-experiment approach
(2008)
This paper discusses the relation between urban norms and informality and presents some evidence for Brazil using a quasi-experimental approach. Using a theoretical framework that relates the supply of house elasticity ...
Urban climate in the South American coastal cities of Guayaquil, Lima, Antofagasta, and Valparaíso, and its impacts on the energy efficiency of buildings
(Springer International Publishing, 2019)