Impacts of green-blue-grey infrastructures on high-density urban thermal environment at multiple spatial scales: A case study in Wuhan

Urban Climate, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 52, С. 101714 - 101714

Опубликована: Окт. 26, 2023

Язык: Английский

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Inferring building height from footprint morphology data

Scientific Reports, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 14(1)

Опубликована: Авг. 12, 2024

Abstract As cities continue to grow globally, characterizing the built environment is essential understanding human populations, projecting energy usage, monitoring urban heat island impacts, preventing environmental degradation, and planning for development. Buildings are a key component of there currently lack data on building height at global level. Current methodologies developing models that utilize remote sensing limited in scale due high cost acquisition. Other approaches leverage 2D features restricted based volume ancillary necessary infer height. Here, we find, through series experiments covering 74.55 million buildings from United States, France, Germany, it possible, with 95% accuracy, within 3 m true using footprint morphology data. Our results show leveraging individual footprints can lead accurate predictions while not requiring data, thus making this method applicable wherever available. The finding possible alone provides researchers new relation various applications.

Язык: Английский

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Frontiers in Social–Ecological Urbanism

Land, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 11(6), С. 929 - 929

Опубликована: Июнь 17, 2022

This paper describes a new approach in urban ecological design, referred to as social–ecological urbanism (SEU). It draws from research resilience thinking and space syntax the analysis of relationships between processes form at microlevel cities, where social services are directly experienced by dwellers. The elaborates on three types media for designers intervene systems, including form, institutions, discourse, that together function significant enabler change. ends presenting four future frontiers with potential advance field urbanism: (1) density critical biodiversity thresholds, (2) human non-human movement space, (3) retrofitting (4) reversing trend illiteracy through affordance designs connect people nature each other.

Язык: Английский

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The role of infrastructure in societal transformations

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 57, С. 101207 - 101207

Опубликована: Авг. 1, 2022

Язык: Английский

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Overview of the (Smart) Stormwater Management around the Baltic Sea

Water, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 15(8), С. 1623 - 1623

Опубликована: Апрель 21, 2023

In this review paper, we investigate the management of quality stormwater in Baltic Sea region. Current practices, standards, and legislation do not accurately depict quality, resulting an underestimation its environmental impact. The digitalization harmonization through implementation e-monitoring (online or continuous monitoring) allow for collection data. This data can be used to improve quantity management, thereby reducing harm induced by anthropogenic activities. Based on literature review, supporting tables matrices are proposed assist decision-makers other interested parties developing implementing “smart” solutions. article, demonstrate that such systems enhance system performance leveraging data-driven operation maintenance. Another advantage approach is it contributes a healthier urban environment ecosystem well-being.

Язык: Английский

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Urban human settlements’ resilience measurement and characteristics and their mechanism model in China

PLoS ONE, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 18(8), С. e0289754 - e0289754

Опубликована: Авг. 7, 2023

This study introduces the principle of resilience into human settlements. In this study, a comprehensive evaluation model urban settlements’ based on provincial region China was constructed using Driver–Pressure–State–Impact–Response framework. The spatio-temporal evolution characteristics explored. influencing factors were analysed by geographical detectors, and driving mechanism constructed. Results show that following. (1) level settlements in continued to increase, each province city changed significantly. overall clustering effect showed tendency fluctuate weaken. distribution cold spot areas became less less, hot spots moving from northeast southeast China. (2) Significant differences existed intensity impact different indicators system. value factor an upward trend, number key increased. (3) Improving ability scientific technological innovation, accelerating transformation upgrading regional economy, increasing training talents making financial inclination development industrial pollution control all important ways for developing maintaining not only new perspective but also explores indices mechanisms, which provides ideas studying

Язык: Английский

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Hybridity and Multiscale Compatibility in Landscape Infrastructure for Mountain River Restoration: A Pathway Toward Environmental and Socio-Ecological Sustainability

The Journal of Environment & Development, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 32(4), С. 343 - 369

Опубликована: Сен. 20, 2023

River rehabilitation has traditionally focused on hard-engineering projects, which often fail to address environmental protection concerns and social-ecological services in a larger territorial context. In particular, mountain rivers pose unique challenges due their diverse hydrological morphological conditions, are overlooked by traditional restoration methods. Consequently, water quality deteriorates imbalances arise. To these challenges, we propose holistic solution that integrates landscape infrastructure (LI), soft-engineered biophysical structure process. Our approach combines analysis, ecological sensitivity assessment, design solutions develop an LI framework for the Xiaojiahe basin Chongqing Mountain range southwest China. This emphasizes integration across spatial scale of networks corridors. study reveals existence fragmented river systems limited connectivity among green spaces research area. The adoption comprehensive Landscape Infrastructure (LI) facilitates execution culturally sensitive practical Urban Restoration (MURR) at different levels. reinstates multifaceted socio-ecological benefits basin. We believe our can be applied other cases with similar contexts challenges.

Язык: Английский

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Climate Proofing Cities by Navigating Nature-Based Solutions in a Multi-Scale, Social–Ecological Urban Planning Context: A Case Study of Flood Protection in the City of Gothenburg, Sweden

Land, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 13(2), С. 143 - 143

Опубликована: Янв. 26, 2024

Due to unsustainable land management and climate change, floods have become more frequent severe over the past few decades problem is exacerbated in urban environments. In context of climate-proofing cities, importance nature-based solutions (NBSs), obtaining relevant outcomes form ecosystem services, has been highlighted. Although role services building resilience against negative change effects widely recognized there an identified need better integrate into planning design, this proven difficult operationalize. A critical limitation that modeling a time-consuming costly exercise. The purpose roughly estimate service water run-off mitigation through simplified, cost-effective, user-friendly modelling at three nested biophysical scales, under four scenarios. Using Swedish city Gothenburg as example, we propose approach for navigating NBS-oriented flooding adaptation strategies, by quantifying scenarios, hence, proposing how navigate multi-scale, social–ecological present future events. Our findings validate effectiveness employing comprehend significant issue cost-efficient modeling.

Язык: Английский

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Assessing resilience at different scales: from single assets to complex systems

Environment Systems & Decisions, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 43(4), С. 693 - 707

Опубликована: Авг. 16, 2023

Abstract Nowadays, critical infrastructure and systems are getting more interconnected, while facing increasing intensive hazards: from man-made to natural ones, including those exacerbated by effects of the climate change. The demand for their robustness resiliency against all these threats is finding ground organizations or states’ ambitions, implementations, policies. Moreover, distributed network spanning local areas cities, regions cross-country extension, make them a target malicious actions aimed damage even disrupt supplied therefore availability service they deliver. paper focuses on review an engineering perspective past efforts (namely related H2020 Secure Gas project) provides evidence application cases where network/system dimension key point be taken into account safeguarded. Finally, outlook future perspectives potentials in resilience at local, urban territorial/national level described, with incoming emerging global level.

Язык: Английский

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Promoting natural cycle and environmental resilience: A pathway toward sustainable development

South African Journal of Chemical Engineering, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 42, С. 229 - 240

Опубликована: Сен. 11, 2022

Язык: Английский

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