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Emilio Grande, Ate Visser, Pamela Beitz and Jean Moran
Water bodies in the East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD), California, United States, provide aesthetic value and critical ecosystem services, but are often adversely affected by the activities and infrastructure of the intensely urban environment that...
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Ana Silvia Pereira Santos,José Manuel Pereira Vieira
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No presente artigo, apresenta-se uma análise comparativa do enquadramento regulatório de reúso de água do Brasil e de Portugal, inserido nos seus cenários de gestão de saneamento ambiental e recursos hídricos. Verifica-se que os índices de atendimento em...
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Mosisa Teferi Timotewos, Matthias Barjenbruch and Beshah M. Behailu
Due to the country?s expanding population, inadequate urban water management practices, limited community knowledge of water management, and urbanization, urban water management in Ethiopia is of great importance to the administration of the country. Thi...
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Desty Pratiwi, Dadan Sumiarsa, Dina Oktavia and Sunardi Sunardi
Self-purification plays an important role in water regulating ecosystem services aimed at protecting river water quality from pollutant inputs. The Citarum River is the longest river in West Java, Indonesia where the water quality has declined due to pol...
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Lu Wang
In the context of climate change, heat waves are a serious hazard having significant impacts on human health, especially vulnerable populations. Many studies have researched the association between extreme heat and mortality. In the context of urban plan...
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Esther Sánchez-Almodóvar, Jorge Olcina-Cantos, Javier Martí-Talavera, Antonio Prieto-Cerdán and Ascensión Padilla-Blanco
One of the principal challenges for cities on the Mediterranean coast is the management of urban runoff after episodes of intense rainfall. This problem is aggravated by the effects of climate change, with the increase in the frequency and intensity of e...
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Carlos Ríos-Llamas,Samuel Hernández-Vásquez
Urban expansion often replaces forest and farmlands. In Mexico, cities like Guadalajara have become metropolitan areas, and the nearest forest reserves are constantly menaced by urban expansion, loss of farmland and the increase of to...
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Ibrahim H. Elsebaie, Mohamed El Alfy and Atef Qasem Kawara
In arid areas, flashflood water management is a major concern due to arid climate ambiguity. The examining and derivation of intensity?duration?frequency (IDF) curves in an urban arid area under a variety of terrain patterns and climatic changes is antic...
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Mohamed. M. Yagoub, Yacob T. Tesfaldet, Marwan G. Elmubarak and Naeema Al Hosani
Urban quality of life (UQoL) study is very important for many applications such as services distribution, urban planning, and socioeconomic analysis. The objective of this study is to create an urban quality of life index map for Al Ain city in the Unite...
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Andreia Rodrigues, Cristina Sousa Coutinho Calheiros, Pedro Teixeira and Ana Galvão
Ponds are a common feature in urban parks to provide aesthetic and recreational functions, but also deliver a wide range of ecosystem services. The objective of this study was to assess the water quality of six urban ponds in the city of Lisbon, Portugal...
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