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Yuewei Hou, Yongping Wei, Shuanglei Wu and Jinghan Li
Flooding has become one of the most dangerous and expensive disasters due to urbanization and climate change. Tools for assessing flood impact are required to support the shift of flood mitigation management from post-disaster recovery and reconstruction...
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Georgia Holly, Arturo Rey da Silva, Jon Henderson, Caesar Bita, Wes Forsythe, Zacarias Alexandre Ombe, Christopher Poonian and Hayley Roberts
This paper presents the key contributions of marine cultural heritage to the survival of coastal ecosystems and the communities that rely on them in East Africa. Marine cultural heritage (MCH) describes the evidence of past human interactions with coasta...
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Dominic Lagrois, Tyler R. Bonnell, Ankita Shukla and Clément Chion
Agent-based models return spatiotemporal information used to process time series of specific parameters for specific individuals called ?agents?. For complex, advanced and detailed models, this typically comes at the expense of high computing times and r...
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Giles Thomson, Peter Newman, Dominique Hes, Jo Bennett, Mark Taylor and Ron Johnstone
The benefits of ecosystem services to cities are well documented; for example, water-sensitive urban design to mitigate stormwater flows and purify run-off, the cooling benefits provided by tree shade, and psychological benefits of urban greening. Cities...
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Qing Luo, Kai Hu, Wenxuan Liu and Huayi Wu
Spatial autocorrelation describes the interdependent relationship between the realizations or observations of a variable that is distributed across a geographical landscape, which may be divided into different units/areas according to natural or politica...
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Nick van Kats, Carel Dieperink, Marleen van Rijswick and Lisette de Senerpont Domis
The aim of the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) is to achieve a ?good? chemical and ecological status for all waters by 2027. Currently, the Netherlands and other EU Member States are finalizing their plans for the third iteration of the WFD management...
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Ting Zhang, Ruiqing Yang, Yibo Yang, Long Li and Longqian Chen
The remote-sensing ecological index (RSEI), which is built with greenness, moisture, dryness, and heat, has become increasingly recognized for its use in urban eco-environment quality assessment. To improve the reliability of such assessment, we propose ...
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Lorenzo Pasculli, Viviana Piermattei, Alice Madonia, Gabriele Bruzzone, Massimo Caccia, Roberta Ferretti, Angelo Odetti and Marco Marcelli
The Arctic region is greatly affected by climate change, with evident alterations in both physical and biological processes: temperatures are changing at a rate that is twice the global average and phytoplankton productivity is directly affected by ice m...
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Studying the workplace often involves using observational, self-report recall, or focus group tools, which all have their established advantages and disadvantages. There is, however, a need for a readily available, low-invasive method that can provide lo...
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The official bioeconomy strategies in Europe and Germany pursue a technology-based implementation pathway and stipulate a wide range of objectives to be achieved with a bio-based economy. Reviews of the scientific and societal debate have shown that the ...
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