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When Tourists Move In: How Should Urban Planners Respond to Airbnb? Open
Problem, research strategy, and findings: The online accommodation platform Airbnb has expanded globally, raising substantial planning and regulatory concerns. We ask whether Airbnb rentals generate significant neighborhood impacts like no…
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Spatial-temporal heterogeneity of ecosystem service interactions and their social-ecological drivers: Implications for spatial planning and management Open
Uncovering the complex interactions among ecosystem services (ESs) is a prerequisite for managing multiple ESs simultaneously. We mapped the supply of six ESs, quantified their trade-offs/synergies and bundles, determined dominant social-e…
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Modeling Groundwater Potential Zone in a Semi-Arid Region of Aseer Using Fuzzy-AHP and Geoinformation Techniques Open
Saudi Arabia’s arid and semi-arid regions suffer from water scarcity because of climatic constraints and rapid growth of domestic and industrial water uses. The growing demand for high-quality water supplies and to reduce the dependency on…
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A regulation-based classification system for Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) Open
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Who Participates in Local Government? Evidence from Meeting Minutes Open
Scholars and policymakers have highlighted institutions that enable community participation as a potential buffer against existing political inequalities. Yet these venues may bias policy discussions in favor of an unrepresentative group o…
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Assessment of groundwater quality for irrigation in the arid regions using irrigation water quality index (IWQI) and GIS-Zoning maps: Case study from Abu Dhabi Emirate, UAE Open
The present study developed an Irrigation Water Quality Index (IWQI) and GIS-Zoning maps for assessing groundwater resources for irrigation purposes in Abu Dhabi Emirate, UAE. The calculated IWQI values varied from 8.78 to 77.44 and 52% of…
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Temporal and spatial variation analysis of habitat quality on the PLUS-InVEST model for Ebinur Lake Basin, China Open
The improvement of habitat quality is of great significance to biodiversity conservation. Irrational development activities lead to the degradation of habitat quality and loss of biodiversity, especially in arid inland areas where the ecol…
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Regionalization of climate over the Argentine Pampas Open
The aim of this study was to classify and characterize the climate of the Pampas, a vast region in the centre of Argentina. Due to its territorial extension, a climatic zoning of the region was performed, based on the topography and the mo…
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Thirty years of connectivity conservation planning: an assessment of factors influencing plan implementation Open
Connectivity conservation is an emergent approach to counteracting landscape fragmentation and enhancing resilience to climate change at local, national, and global scales. While policy that promotes connectivity is advancing, there has be…
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Reducing the Density and Number of Tobacco Retailers: Policy Solutions and Legal Issues Open
Our review of the relevant constitutional issues confirms that local governments have the authority to utilize laws and policies to reduce the density and number of tobacco retailers in their communities, given existing public health data.…
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Spatial Explicit Assessment of Urban Vitality Using Multi-Source Data: A Case of Shanghai, China Open
Identifying urban vitality in large cities is critical for optimizing the urban fabric. While great attention has been paid to urban vitality in developed countries, related studies have been rarely conducted in developing countries. In th…
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It’s Time to End Single-Family Zoning Open
Local planning in the United States is unique in the amount of land it reserves for detached single-family homes. This privileging of single-family homes, normally called R1 zoning, exacerbates inequality and undermines efficiency. R1’s or…
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A spatial zoning approach to calibrate and validate urban growth models Open
Calibration and validation of models predicting urban growth have been largely developed using internal variables. Further investigation is required to improve model’s calibration and validation mixing internal and external variables. To r…
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Race, Ethnicity, and Discriminatory Zoning Open
Zoning policies can have marked impacts on the spatial distribution of people and land use, yet there is little systematic evidence on their origin. Investigating the causes of these regulations is complicated by the fact that land use and…
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Construction of ecological security pattern based on the importance of ecosystem service functions and ecological sensitivity assessment: a case study in Fengxian County of Jiangsu Province, China Open
The construction of ecological security pattern is one of the important ways to alleviate the contradiction between economic development and ecological protection, as well as the important contents of ecological civilization construction. …
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Urban Heat Island Analysis over the Land Use Zoning Plan of Bangkok by Means of Landsat 8 Imagery Open
Surface urban heat island (SUHI) maps retrieved from spaceborne sensor data are increasingly recognized as an efficient scientific support to be considered in sustainable urban planning. By means of reflective and thermal data from Landsat…
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Distributional effects of transport policies on inequalities in access to opportunities in Rio de Janeiro Open
The evaluation of social impacts of transport policies has been attracting growing attention in recent years. Yet studies thus far have predominately focused on developed countries and overlooked whether equity assessment of transport proj…
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GIS-Based Evaluation of Landslide Susceptibility Models Using Certainty Factors and Functional Trees-Based Ensemble Techniques Open
The main purpose of this paper is to use ensembles techniques of functional tree-based bagging, rotation forest, and dagging (functional trees (FT), bagging-functional trees (BFT), rotation forest-functional trees (RFFT), dagging-functiona…
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Remote Sensing of Forest Burnt Area, Burn Severity, and Post-Fire Recovery: A Review Open
Wildland fires dramatically affect forest ecosystems, altering the loss of their biodiversity and their sustainability. In addition, they have a strong impact on the global carbon balance and, ultimately, on climate change. This review att…
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An integrated system of monitoring the availability, accessibility and attractiveness of urban parks and green squares Open
The main goal of this article is to propose a set of 20 indicators that represent barriers which prevent urban green space (UGS) provision on three levels – availability, accessibility, and attractiveness. These barriers include new invest…
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Factors Influencing Perceived Crowding of Tourists and Sustainable Tourism Destination Management Open
Studies on tourists crowding are developed to explore the perception of crowding, and these studies indicate crowding influence on sustainable development of tourist destinations. This study aims to reveal the influential factors of touris…
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Urban Flood-Risk Assessment: Integration of Decision-Making and Machine Learning Open
Urban flood-risk mapping is an important tool for the mitigation of flooding in view of continuing urbanization and climate change. However, many developing countries lack sufficiently detailed data to produce reliable risk maps with exist…
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Evolution of spatial network structure for land-use carbon emissions and carbon balance zoning in Jiangxi Province: A social network analysis perspective Open
Exploring the spatial network structure of land-use carbon emissions (LUCE) and the carbon balance in developing regions is pivotal for climate change mitigation in these areas. Using socio-economic and land-use data from 2000 to 2020, thi…
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StreamStats, version 4 Open
First posted October 30, 2017 For additional information, contact: StreamStats Coordinator U.S. Geological Survey 3162 Bozeman Avenue Helena, MT 59601 https://water.usgs.gov/osw/streamstats/ StreamStats version 4, available at https://stre…
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Evaluation of simplified building energy models for urban-scale energy analysis of buildings Open
Simplification of building energy models is one of the most common approaches for efficiently estimating the energy performance of buildings over the whole city. The abstraction of a building into an information model, and the division of …
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Zoning for ecosystem restoration based on ecological network in mountainous region Open
Ecological network is an important landscape approach for biodiversity and ecosystem conservation. However, the lack of further spatial analysis and ecological zoning makes it difficult to implement ecological conservation and restoration …
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Implementing Green Infrastructure in Spatial Planning in Europe Open
Interest in green infrastructure (GI) has grown in research, policy and planning in recent decades. The central idea behind GI is the understanding of the physical non-built-up environment as an infrastructure capable of delivering a wide …
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Reshaping the Sustainable Geographical Pattern: A Major Function Zoning Model and Its Applications in China Open
The imbalance between human activities and Earth's natural surface adversely affects the sustainability of the Earth system. From an understanding of the suitability of surface functions and potential ramifications of policy decisions, thi…
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Why Not Wood? Benefits and Barriers of Wood as a Multistory Construction Material: Perceptions of Municipal Civil Servants from Finland Open
As the construction sector continues to be associated with highly energy-intensive practices leading to excessive carbon emissions, governments in many countries are promoting a shift towards greener building practices, like the use of woo…
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Death to Single-Family Zoning…and New Life to the Missing Middle Open
Planners in the United States and Canada should stop defending single-family zoning, the single most harmful widely used practice in planning. In the century since first adoption, it has exacerbated both inequality and climate change. Land…