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Lahouari Bounoua, Mohamed Amine Lachkham, Noura Ed-Dahmany, Souad Lagmiri, Hicham Bahi, Mohammed Messouli, Mohammed Yacoubi Khebiza, Joseph Nigro and Kurtis J. Thome
During the last decades, Morocco has recorded substantial urbanization and faced challenges related to urban sprawl and encroachment on fertile lands. This paper reviews several studies assessing urban sustainability development in 27 Moroccan urban area...
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Lahouari Bounoua, Nora Bachir, Hanane Souidi, Hicham Bahi, Souad Lagmiri, Mohamed Yacoubi Khebiza, Joseph Nigro and Kurt Thome
We analyzed the urban development sustainability in five major urban areas of Algeria by the standard of the UN Sustainability Development Goal indicator SDG 11.3.1, which focuses on the ratio of land consumption rate to population growth rate. We utiliz...
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Laila El Ghazouani, Lahouari Bounoua, Joseph Nigro, Majid Mansour, Hassan Radoine and Hanane Souidi
Landsat-8 surface temperature and the European Space Agency land cover are used to assess the impact of land cover on the Urban Heat Island (UHI) and Urban Heat Sink (UHS). We analyzed five Moroccan cities selected for their different local climate, size...
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Lahouari Bounoua, Kurtis Thome and Joseph Nigro
Urbanization is a complex land transformation not explicitly resolved within large-scale climate models. Long-term timeseries of high-resolution satellite data are essential to characterize urbanization within land surface models and to assess its contri...
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Lahouari Bounoua, Najlaa Fathi, Meryem El Berkaoui, Laila El Ghazouani and Mohammed Messouli
In Morocco, the last census counted 70% of houses in cities, with seven cities accounting for 25% of the total population and 41% of the urban population. This paper questioned the sustainability indicator in Moroccan cities using a novel methodology bas...
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Lahouari Bounoua, Joseph Nigro, Kurtis Thome, Ping Zhang, Najlaa Fathi and Asia Lachir
Cities are poised to absorb additional people. Their sustainability, or ability to accommodate a population increase without depleting resources or compromising future growth, depends on whether they harness the efficiency gains from urban land managemen...
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Kahime Kholoud, Sereno Denis, Bounoua Lahouari, Moulay Abdelmonaim El Hidan and Bouhout Souad
The proliferation of vector-borne diseases are predicted to increase in a changing climate and Leishmaniases, as a vector-borne diseases, are re-emerging diseases in several regions of the world. In Morocco, during the last decade, a sharp increase in cu...
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Ryan J. Kramer, Lahouari Bounoua, Ping Zhang, Robert E. Wolfe, Thomas G. Huntington, Marc L. Imhoff, Kurtis Thome and Genevieve L. Noyce
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