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Rita Nicolau and Beatriz Condessa
This study seeks to contribute to the definition of a ?no net land take? policy by 2050 for Portugal?s second-largest metropolitan region (AMP, Porto Metropolitan Area) while sensitising those involved in regional and local planning to the European targe...
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Mohamed A. E. AbdelRahman, Ahmed A. Afifi and Antonio Scopa
In the current study the processes of soil deterioration over the past five decades was evaluated. Land degradation risk, status, and rate were assessed in Kafr El-Sheikh Governorate, Egypt, in 2016 using OLI and ETM (2002) remote sensing data, and soil ...
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Felipe Macedo Alves, Artur Gonçalves and M. Rosario del Caz-Enjuto
Urbanization causes major changes in environmental systems, including those related with radiation balances and other meteorological conditions because of changes in surfaces and the physical environment. In addition, cities generate specific microclimat...
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Joshua Ntajal, Britta Höllermann, Timo Falkenberg, Thomas Kistemann and Mariele Evers
Water pollution is a major issue in Ghana with direct impacts on human health. However, the underlying drivers of exposure and risks are not comprehensively explored and understood, while the diseases continue posing huge burdens. The key question addres...
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Guglielmo Pristeri, Francesca Peroni, Salvatore Eugenio Pappalardo, Daniele Codato, Antonio Masi and Massimo De Marchi
The rising environmental issues on contemporary cities urgently calls for sustainable planning policies. Implementation of nature-based solutions, ecosystem services, and green infrastructures associated to green spaces management is at present of paramo...
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Szymon Szewranski, Jakub Chruscinski, Joost Van Hoof, Jan K. Kazak, Malgorzata Swiader, Katarzyna Tokarczyk-Dorociak and Romuald Zmuda
The interplay of an ever-growing number of inhabitants, sprawl development, soil sealing, changes in urban traffic characteristics, as well as observed climate trends gives rise to more frequent pluvial flooding in cities, a higher run-off of water, and ...
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Iwona Szumacher and Piotr Pabjanek
Ecosystem services (ES) in cities and surrounding suburban areas are one of the major factors which guarantee quality of life. Most studies directly referring to urban ecosystem services are conducted on a local scale or for selected cities. There are fe...
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Giulio Castelli, Cristiano Foderi, Boris Hinojosa Guzman, Lorenzo Ossoli, Yandery Kempff, Elena Bresci and Fabio Salbitano
The expansion of cities is an emerging and critical issue for the future of the planet. Water is one of the most important resources provided by urban and peri-urban landscapes, as it is directly or indirectly connected with the quality of the environmen...
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Margarete Cristiane de Costa Trindade Amorim and Vincent Dubreuil
Nowadays, most of the Earth?s population lives in urban areas. The replacement of vegetation by buildings and the general soil sealing, associated with human activity, lead to a rise in cities temperature, resulting in the formation of urban heat islands...
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Michael Endres, Markus Brand, Astrid Tiffert, Manfred Schnell, ... Rita Hilliges
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Alternative materials, like recycling materials, industrial by-products and soils already influenced by human activities (e.g. urban soils) are commonly accepted as building material in earthwork constructions. The risk of contaminant leaching from these...
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