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Francisco Tomatis, Monika Egerer, Adriana Correa-Guimaraes and Luis Manuel Navas-Gracia
Climate change is impacting the ecological, social and technological aspects of urban gardens. Gardens experience threats (e.g., water scarcity) but are also responding through adaptation strategies (e.g., selecting drought-resilient plants). A synthetic...
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Keshav Bhattarai and Ambika P. Adhikari
This paper responds to the research question, ?can urban farming in Nepal help create sustainable cities?? Especially after the COVID-19 pandemic, urban residents have begun to realize that food transported from long distances is not always reliable. Urb...
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Mohammad Paydar, Asal Kamani Fard and Soheil Sabri
Although an increase in walking is recommended to improve physical activity and public health, especially among older adults, the frequency of outdoor pedestrian activities, including walking, should be reduced when there is increased air pollution. Ther...
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Rania Ajmi, Faiza Khebour Allouche, Aude Nuscia Taîbi and Safa Bel Fekih Boussema
As a primary goal, urban green spaces (UGSs) have been linked to several aspects of inhabitants? wellbeing. Quality could be a way to intervene in the UGS?human health interaction. For that purpose, we developed an urban green space quality index (UGS QI...
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Miguel Saraiva and Bárbara Teixeira
In post-pandemic, climate-changing societies, the presence of urban greenspace assumes paramount functions, at the same time that socio-economic crises and shocks augment vulnerabilities and insecurities. The recent literature on environmental criminolog...
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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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Ahmeda Assann Ouédraogo, Emmanuel Berthier, Brigitte Durand and Marie-Christine Gromaire
Accurate evaluation of evapotranspiration (ET) flux is an important issue in sustainable urban drainage systems that target not only flow rate limitations, but also aim at the restoration of natural water balances. This is especially true in context wher...
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Francesco Pirotti, Marco Piragnolo, Marika D?Agostini and Raffaele Cavalli
The post-pandemic era has raised awareness on the importance of physical and psychological well-being for decreasing the vulnerability of both individuals and populations. Citizens in urban areas are subject to numerous stress factors which can be mitiga...
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Manish Ramaiah, Ram Avtar and Pankaj Kumar
Rising land surface temperature (LST), urban heat island (UHI) effects, and stress on surface-, processed-, potable-, and ground-water resources are some undesirable ecological changes due to rapid urbanization. Treating and reusing city-generated wastew...
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Sugirthini Selliah, Vitalija Povilaityte-Petri and Wendy Wuyts
The main purpose of this study was to provide a critique of the depoliticising funding call for co-creation research on urban resilience and sustainability while advocating that urban sustainability should remain political and require a political sphere....
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