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2. Promotion Path of Agricultural Eco-Efficiency Under the Background of Low Carbon Pilot Policy.
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Xuetao Sun, Zhao Yu, and Wang Zhenhua
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AGRICULTURE , *AGRICULTURAL development , *SUSTAINABLE development , *CLIMATE change , *URBAN community development - Abstract
The balance between agricultural development and maintenance of agro-ecological environment becomes a huge challenge because of global climate changes. Existing literature on the low-carbon pilot policy proposed by the government of China and whether the problems of agricultural development and agricultural environmental protection can be solved or not have not been reviewed. This paper analyzes the impact of low-carbon pilot policies on agricultural eco-efficiency by using SARAR model based on the data of 281 cities in China. Results show the spatial spillover effects between low-carbon pilot policies and agricultural eco-efficiency. The implementation of low-carbon pilot policy can improve agricultural eco-efficiency. Although restrained by agricultural economic development, this policy has disequilibrium effect on agricultural eco-efficiency, has a relatively large impact on agricultural eco-efficiency in western China and other poor areas, and promotes the reduction of agricultural carbon emission. The effect of the implementation of low-carbon pilot policy is affected by the initial agricultural economic development and urban economic conditions. This research aims to improve the agricultural eco-efficiency and enforce the green development of the agricultural economy via the perspective of the low-carbon pilot policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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3. Towards sustainable residential communities; the Beddington Zero Energy Development (BedZED) and beyond.
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CHANCE, TOM
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URBAN community development ,SUSTAINABLE communities ,SUSTAINABLE living ,ARCHITECTURE & energy conservation ,RESIDENTIAL water consumption ,ENERGY consumption ,GREENHOUSE gas mitigation - Abstract
Copyright of Environment & Urbanization is the property of Sage Publications, Ltd. and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2009
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4. Planning the resilient city: Concepts and strategies for coping with climate change and environmental risk
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Jabareen, Yosef
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URBAN planning , *STRATEGIC planning , *CLIMATE change , *ENVIRONMENTAL risk , *URBAN community development , *SOCIOECONOMIC factors , *STAKEHOLDERS - Abstract
Abstract: This paper contributes to filling the theoretical and practical gaps of city resilience literature, which lacks multifaceted theorizing and typically overlooks the multidisciplinary and complex nature of urban resilience. Furthermore, most studies on the subject make use of general, vague, and confusing terminology. This paper suggests a new innovative conceptual framework (the Resilient City Planning Framework or RCPF) that addresses the critical question of what cities and their urban communities should do in order to move towards a more resilient state in the future. Accordingly, the RCPF takes complexity and uncertainty into account. It is affected by a multiplicity of economic, social, spatial, and physical factors and its planning involves a wide range of stakeholders. RCPF is a network of four interlinked concepts that together, provide a comprehensive understanding of City Resilience. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
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- 2013
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5. Findings from University of Glasgow in CDC and FDA Reported ('beyond Gdp' In Cities: Assessing Alternative Approaches To Urban Economic Development).
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URBAN community development ,CITIES & towns ,GROSS domestic product ,CLIMATE change ,NEWSPAPER editors - Abstract
Findings from University of Glasgow in CDC and FDA Reported ("beyond Gdp" In Cities: Assessing Alternative Approaches To Urban Economic Development) Keywords for this news article include: Glasgow, United Kingdom, Europe, CDC and FDA, University of Glasgow. Keywords: Glasgow; United Kingdom; Europe; CDC and FDA EN Glasgow United Kingdom Europe CDC and FDA 1087 1087 1 09/11/23 20230917 NES 230917 2023 SEP 17 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Medical Letter on the CDC & FDA -- Investigators discuss new findings in CDC and FDA. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2023
6. Residential Water Consumption Modeling in the Integrated Urban Metabolism Analysis Tool (IUMAT).
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Mostafavi, Nariman, Shojaei, Hamid Reza, Beheshtian, Arash, and Hoque, Simi
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RESIDENTIAL water consumption ,URBAN community development ,WATER conservation ,CLIMATE change - Abstract
This paper details a method for residential water consumption modeling within the Integrated Urban Metabolism Analysis Tool (IUMAT), a computational modeling platform for evaluating environmental performance of urban communities under alternative growth scenarios. A bottom-up approach is introduced to generate end-use indoor and outdoor water profiles by applying GLM and Ridge regression methods to Residential End Uses of Water, Version 2 (REU II-2016) dataset and investigating the influence of demographic and climate factors, as well as utility rate structures on patterns of consumption. The data is collected from 2010 through 2013 by nine utilities that operate in North America on 771 and 838 single family units for indoor and outdoor water use respectively. Potential advances to surveying methods as well as the need for tools that allow simultaneous, isolated assessment of educational and technological conservation measures are explained. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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7. Drivers of an urban community’s acceptance of a large desalination scheme for drinking water.
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Gibson, Fiona L., Tapsuwan, Sorada, Walker, Iain, and Randrema, Elodie
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URBAN community development , *SALINE water conversion , *DRINKING water , *CLIMATE change , *ENVIRONMENTAL impact analysis - Abstract
Summary Changing climates and growing populations have prompted policy makers to shift to more climate resilient, technology-driven water sources, such as seawater desalination. Desalination is a prominent water resource in the Middle East but countries in other parts of the world with similar scarcity issues and good access to sea water, such as Australia, have been comparatively slow to adopt it. This paper explores attitudes to desalination in Perth, Western Australia, and the factors that influence its acceptance. We compared individuals’ acceptance of desalination over two time periods by using identical surveys administered in 2007 and 2012. We then examined the attitudinal factors – attitudes towards desalination and attitudes towards the environment – that influence acceptance. Acceptance of desalination was reasonably high and stable at both times (74% and 73% in 2007 and 2012 respectively). We found that respondents’ attitudes to perceived outcomes and benefits, fairness, environmental obligation and risk were important predictors of their acceptance of desalination in both surveys. However the weight given to these aspects varied over time. The findings show that there is still mixed community sentiment towards desalination, which helps to explain why acceptance has not increased since desalination was introduced in 2006. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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8. Eco-Acupuncture: designing and facilitating pathways for urban transformation, for a resilient low-carbon future.
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Ryan, Chris
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CLIMATE change , *MILD steel , *TRANSFORMATIVE learning , *URBAN community development , *ACUPUNCTURE , *LIFESTYLES - Abstract
Abstract: The implications of climate change and the end of the fossil fuel era suggest that we are entering a period of major, transformative, change requiring the restructure of the most fundamental systems for urban living. But rapid structural change is hard to negotiate within existing communities. In Melbourne Australia, a research unit known as the Victorian Eco-Innovation Lab (VEIL) has developed a unique process to co-create visions for a 25 year horizon for specific urban communities in response to climate change. The need to bring that process from vision to intervention, to catalyse rapid transformation of an existing urban environment, has produced a new program –Eco-Acupuncture – for work with local precincts in metropolitan Melbourne and regional communities. Eco-Acupuncture focuses on multiple small interventions in an existing urban precinct that can shift the community's ideas of what is permissible, desirable and possible and provide transformation points for a new trajectory of development to a resilient low-carbon future. The paper describes the context and evolution of the program and the framework developed to deliver new locally specific starting points for urban transformation, a process involving academic researchers and designers, a shifting network of professional designers, many hundreds of design masters students, representatives of local government, business and the wider community. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
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- 2013
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9. Improving urban resilience to flooding: a vital role for civil engineers.
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Escarameia, Manuela
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CIVIL engineers ,FLOOD control ,URBAN community development ,CLIMATE change ,INFRASTRUCTURE (Economics) - Abstract
Being resilient against flooding is a key challenge for urban communities - and one for which civil engineers can play a vital role. Manuela Escarameia of HR Wallingford highlights findings of two themed issues of the Institution of Civil Engineers' journal Water Management on the topic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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10. Documenting the Multiple Facets of a Subsiding Landscape from Coastal Cities and Wetlands to the Continental Shelf.
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Flocks, James, McGraw, Eileen, Barras, John, Bernier, Julie, Bradley, Mike, Galloway, Devin, Landmeyer, James, Scott McBride, W., Smith, Christopher, Smith, Kathryn, Swarzenski, Christopher, and Toth, Lauren
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URBAN community development ,COASTAL ecology ,CLIMATE change ,GEOLOGICAL mapping - Abstract
Land subsidence is a settling, sinking, or collapse of the land surface. In the southeastern United States, subsidence is frequently observed as sinkhole collapse in karst environments, wetland degradation and loss in coastal and other low-lying areas, and immdation of coastal urban communities. Human activities such as fluid extraction, mining, and overburden alteration can cause or exacerbate subsidence, which can result in damage to infrastructure and resources. Subsidence is a hazard that takes place throughout the United States; however, a systematic approach to recognize and develop informed responses to the drivers of subsidence has not yet been fully established. To address this problem, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Southeast Region (SER) funded the gathering of a team of interdisciplinary USGS scientists to promote scientific collaboration. Southeast Region scientists welcomed scientists from other regions (see table 1.1 in Appendix 1) in September 2018 at the St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center (SPCMSC) in Florida for the first workshop of the Subsidence Flex Team (SFT) (see Appendix 2 for agenda). The SFT set out to review subsidence-related research and technology and develop a unifying framework for describing the processes and hazards associated with land subsidence. A more comprehensive understanding of subsidence hazards could help to inform regional vulnerability assessments that would prove invaluable to the public, community developers, policy makers, and resource managers in both inland and coastal states. The SFT analyzed USGS strengths and weaknesses to identify existing infrastructure and capabilities that could be leveraged to create a comprehensive and far-reaching subsidence-monitoring and mitigation program. Over the course of the 2-day workshop, interdisciplinary understandings of the processes and hazards related to subsidence were explored through individual presentations and group discussion. With all perspectives considered, the SFT recommended that subsidence-related research develop scientific approaches and metrics by which the subsidence component can be isolated and quantified in order to protect both the environment and human infrastructure from harm [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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