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Karma Tempa, Masengo Ilunga, Abhishek Agarwal and Tashi
Gelephu, located in the Himalayan region, has undergone significant development activities due to its suitable topography and geographic location. This has led to rapid urbanization in recent years. Assessing land use land cover (LULC) dynamics and Norma...
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Yuan Tian and Xiuyi Shi
In order to cope with global climate warming, measurement of the low-carbon utilization efficiency (LCUE) of cultivated land, considering carbon sink and carbon emission effects, is proposed. To address this, based on the data of 30 provinces in China, t...
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Franz W Gatzweiler, Saroj Jayasinghe, José G Siri and Jason Corburn
The intensity and range of health challenges that people in cities are facing has increased in recent years. This is due in part to a failure to adequately adapt and respond to emergent and expanding global systemic risks, but also to a still-limited und...
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Rehab O. Abdel Rahman, Ahmed M. El-Kamash and Yung-Tse Hung
Permeable concrete is a class of materials that has long been tested and implemented to control water pollution. Its application in low-impact development practices has proved its efficiency in mitigating some of the impacts of urbanization on the enviro...
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Ting Xiang, Xiaoliang Meng, Xinshuang Wang, Jing Xiong and Zelin Xu
Rapid industrialization and urbanization have accelerated land-use changes in mountainous areas, with dramatic impacts on ecosystem health. In particular, the Qinling-Daba Mountains, as China?s central water tower, ecological green lung, and biological g...
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Jonathan Salar Cabrera and Han Soo Lee
The coastal zone is the environment that connects terrestrial and marine environments. It is the most productive ecosystem on the planet. It has been estimated that 23 percent of the population lives in the coastal regions. The attractive landscape and s...
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Ammar A. Mannaa, Athar Ali Khan, Rabea Haredy and Aaid G. Al-Zubieri
The Al-Salam Lagoon is one of the recreational sites along the Jeddah coast, showing the environmental impacts of urbanization along the coast. A sediment core (220 cm) was collected from the intertidal zone to evaluate the heavy metals (Fe, Mn, Cr, Ni, ...
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Yuejuan Yang, Hao Zhang, Xinquan Zhao, Zhizhang Chen, Aiguo Wang, Enlai Zhao and Hui Cao
Ecosystem services are the material basis of economic and social development, and play essential roles in the sustainable development of ecosystems. Urbanization can remarkably alter the provision of ecosystem services. Most studies in this area have foc...
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Kamel Mohamed Rahla, Ricardo Mateus and Luís Bragança
A growing concern is given to the environmental impacts caused by the construction industry. Waste generation, resource consumption, and greenhouse gas emissions are the main drawbacks of the rapid urbanization that the world is witnessing. As a response...
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Afghan Afghan, Carlo Cerrano, Giorgia Luzi, Barbara Calcinai, Stefania Puce, Torcuato Pulido Mantas, Camilla Roveta and Cristina Gioia Di Camillo
Sandy beaches provide several ecosystem services such as coastal protection and resilience, water filtration and nutrient mineralization. Beaches also represent a hub for social, cultural and economic relationships as well as educational activities. Incr...
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