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Barbara Cardone, Valeria D?Ambrosio, Ferdinando Di Martino and Vittorio Miraglia
One of the issues of greatest interest in urban planning today concerns the evaluation of the most vulnerable urban areas in the presence of different types of climate hazards. In this research, a hierarchical fuzzy MCDA model is implemented on a GIS-bas...
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Leticia Merchán, Antonio Miguel Martínez-Graña, Carlos E. Nieto and Marco Criado
The landscape is a resource to be considered in the planning and sustainable management of the territory of natural spaces, such as the Arribes del Duero Natural Park. It is conditioned by environmental factors. They are highly influential on the quality...
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Konstantinos Ntafloukas, Liliana Pasquale, Beatriz Martinez-Pastor and Daniel P. McCrum
Transportation networks are fundamental to the efficient and safe functioning of modern societies. In the past, physical and cyber space were treated as isolated environments, resulting in transportation network being considered vulnerable only to threat...
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Wei Liu, Jie Yang, Yue Gong and Qi Cheng
After decades of development, China?s urban renewal is facing the problems of inequality and intolerance, neglecting vulnerable groups and triggering gentrification. These problems are rarely quantified and draw limited public concerns. To promote an inc...
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Emmanuel S. H. Lobe Ekamby and Pierpaolo Mudu
Africa is a particularly vulnerable continent to the effects of climate and environmental changes. Several tree planting projects were launched as one of the plausible solutions to climate action. This paper reviews the recent tree planting projects in A...
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Wenbo Mo, Yunlin Zhao, Nan Yang, Zhenggang Xu, Weiping Zhao and Feng Li
Spatial and quantitative assessments of water yield services in watershed ecosystems are necessary for water resource management and improved water ecological protection. In this study, we used the InVEST model to estimate regional water yield in the Don...
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Kayoko Yamamoto
The present study aimed to describe the utilization of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) as a digital infrastructure concerning disaster countermeasures in Japan. Specifically, the study introduced development cases of the systems integratin...
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Jing Jing, David Canter and Tigran Haas
This study tests the viability of multiple sorting tasks (MST) as a method to explore perceptions of public space and its potential for people that are vulnerable to loneliness. The procedure integrates qualitative and quantitative aspects and obviates t...
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Hyung-Jun Kim, Dong Sop Rhee and Chang Geun Song
Extreme rainfall causes surface runoff to flow towards lowlands and subterranean facilities, such as subway stations and buildings with underground spaces in densely packed urban areas. These facilities and areas are therefore vulnerable to catastrophic ...
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Pamela Smith and Cristián Henríquez
This paper presents research carried out in the city of Chillán, a medium size city located on the southern limit of the Chilean Mediterranean domain, at 36°36's south latitude. Chillán provides a good representative example of warm summers in central an...
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