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Movement patterns of a keystone waterbird species are highly predictable from landscape configuration

Journal Articles & Books
February, 2017
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
land use
land use change
urban areas
Background: Movement behaviour is fundamental to the ecology of animals and their interactions with other organisms, and as such contributes to ecosystem dynamics. Waterfowl are key players in ecological processes in wetlands and surrounding habitats through predator-prey interactions and their transportation of nutrients and other organisms. Understanding the drivers of their movement behaviour is crucial to predict how environmental changes affect their role in ecosystem functioning.
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Informal Urban Green Space: Residents’ Perception, Use, and Management Preferences across Four Major Japanese Shrinking Cities

Volume 6 Issue 3

Peer-reviewed publication
October, 2017
Japan
Urban Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land-use planning
land use
urban planning
sustainable land management
urban areas
Urban residents’ health depends on green infrastructure to cope with climate change. Shrinking cities could utilize vacant land to provide more green space, but declining tax revenues preclude new park development—a situation pronounced in Japan, where some cities are projected to shrink by over ten percent, but lack green space. Could informal urban green spaces (IGS; vacant lots, street verges, brownfields etc.) supplement parks in shrinking cities?
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The Integration of Ecosystem Services in Planning: An Evaluation of the Nutrient Retention Model Using InVEST Software

Volume 6 Issue 3

Peer-reviewed publication
October, 2017
Global
Urban Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land-use planning
urban planning
sustainable land management
urban areas
environment
Mapping ecosystem services (ES) increases the awareness of natural capital value, leading to building sustainability into decision-making processes. Recently, many techniques to assess the value of ES delivered by different scenarios of land use/land cover (LULC) are available, thus becoming important practices in mapping to support the land use planning process. The spatial analysis of the biophysical ES distribution allows a better comprehension of the environmental and social implications of planning, especially when ES concerns the management of risk (e.g., erosion, pollution).
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Actual and perceived causes of flood risk: climate versus anthropogenic effects in a wet zone catchment in Sri Lanka

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2017
Urban Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
urbanization
climate change
land use
The Kalu Ganga Basin in Sri Lanka is generally flooded once a year. A network of low-lying lands acts as natural retention and storage that captures floodwater, minimizing damage. An increase in the flood frequency has been observed in recent years. It is commonly perceived that this increase is caused by a rise in the frequency and severity of ‘very wet’ precipitation events. We conclude that land-use changes may have played a larger role in generating floods.
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Trade-offs in multi-purpose land use under land degradation

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2017
Urban Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land, Climate Change & Environment
farmland
farmers
climate change
land use
urbanization
land degradation
water management
Land provides a host of ecosystem services, of which the provisioning services are often considered paramount. As the demand for agricultural products multiplies, other ecosystem services are being degraded or lost entirely. Finding a sustainable trade-off between food production and one or more of other ecosystem services, given the variety of stakeholders, is a matter of optimizing land use in a dynamic and complex socio-ecological system. Land degradation reduces our options to meet both food demands and environmental needs.
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Trade-Offs in Multi-Purpose Land Use under Land Degradation

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2017
Urban Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land, Climate Change & Environment
urbanization
land use
land degradation
Land provides a host of ecosystem services, of which the provisioning services are often considered paramount. As the demand for agricultural products multiplies, other ecosystem services are being degraded or lost entirely. Finding a sustainable trade-off between food production and one or more of other ecosystem services, given the variety of stakeholders, is a matter of optimizing land use in a dynamic and complex socio-ecological system. Land degradation reduces our options to meet both food demands and environmental needs.
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Actual and perceived causes of flood risk: climate versus anthropogenic effects in a wet zone catchment in Sri Lanka

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2017
Sri Lanka
Urban Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
urbanization
climate change
land use
The Kalu Ganga Basin in Sri Lanka is generally flooded once a year. A network of low-lying lands acts as natural retention and storage that captures floodwater, minimizing damage. An increase in the flood frequency has been observed in recent years. It is commonly perceived that this increase is caused by a rise in the frequency and severity of ‘very wet’ precipitation events. We conclude that land-use changes may have played a larger role in generating floods.
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Land Change Dynamics

Insights from Intensity Analysis Applied to an African Emerging City

Reports & Research
Journal Articles & Books
December, 2017
Rwanda, Africa
Urban Tenure
urbanization
land use
Land change in Kigali, Rwanda, is examined using Intensity Analysis, which measures the temporal stationarity of changes among categories. Maps for 1981, 2002 and 2014 were produced that show the land categories Built, Vegetated and Other, which is composed mainly of croplands and bare surfaces. Land change accelerated from the first time interval (1981–2002) to the second time interval (2002–2014), as increased human and economic activities drove land transformation.
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Africa's Cities

Opening Doors to the World

Reports & Research
Journal Articles & Books
February, 2017
Urban Tenure
urbanization
property rights
urban planning
land use
Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa are experiencing rapid population growth. Yet their economic growth has not kept pace. Why? One factor might be low capital investment, due in part to Africa’s relative poverty: Other regions have reached similar stages of urbanization at higher per capita GDP. This study, however, identifies a deeper reason: African cities are closed to the world.
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Assessing spatial benefits of urban regeneration programs in a highly vulnerable urban context: A case study in Catania, Italy

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2017
Italy
Urban Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
urban planning
land use
urban areas
climate change
The relationship between sustainable urban development and environmental sustainability is crucial to every strategy of urban transformation, renewal and regeneration. In particular, urban regeneration entails programmes of urban transformation that involve the rehabilitation of existing parts of a city, re-use previously built-up area and abandoned buildings, and redevelop blighted urban spaces to increase urban sustainability.