International Journal of Environmental Science & Sustainable Development最新文献

Smart streetlamps as part of a smart city approach in Macau 智能路灯是澳门智慧城市的一部分

International Journal of Environmental Science & Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2021-12-30 DOI: 10.21625/essd.v6i2.834

Yile Chen, Liang Zheng

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Rejuvenation in rural Ireland in response to the COVID-19 induced urban-to-rural migration phenomenon 应对2019冠状病毒病引发的城乡移民现象，振兴爱尔兰农村

International Journal of Environmental Science & Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2021-12-30 DOI: 10.21625/essd.v6i2.835.s403

Shreyashi Sen

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Regional Resource Urbanism, Envisioning an Adaptive Transition for the Urbanising Periphery of Kathmandu 区域资源城市主义:展望加德满都周边城市化的适应性转型

International Journal of Environmental Science & Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2021-06-30 DOI: 10.21625/essd.v6i1.788

A. Manna

{"title":"Regional Resource Urbanism, Envisioning an Adaptive Transition for the Urbanising Periphery of Kathmandu","authors":"A. Manna","doi":"10.21625/essd.v6i1.788","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21625/essd.v6i1.788","url":null,"abstract":"Despite a strong tradition of harmony between the landscape and its settlements, Kathmandu's periphery now stands altered due to the contemporary challenges of modernisation. It has become the contested territory where rapid urbanisation and infrastructure projects conflict with the valley's last remaining resources. i.e., fertile soil, floodplains, water sources, forests and agricultural land. The periphery is essential in preserving the remaining agricultural landscape, which is the mainstay of the numerous traditional communities of Kathmandu. Both the occupants and the productive landscape are threatened due to haphazard urbanisation and future mobility projects, resulting in speculative and uncontrolled sprawl. A detailed investigation was conducted on a site 15km south of Kathmandu to address the city's landscape challenges. The chosen investigation frame presented the suitable conditions to study and test strategies posed by the research objectives. The research utilises landscape urbanism and cartography to reveal the landscape's latent capacities, identify the spatial qualities, stakeholders and typologies involved in the production and consumption of resources. The study identifies existing resource flows and their ability to generate future scenarios. Systematic design strategies were applied in resource recovery projects by optimising enterprising capacity building within communities after the earthquake. The research recognises the merit in existing practices, community networks, the ongoing post-earthquake rebuilding efforts in offering an alternative design strategy in which landscape becomes the carrying structure for the sustainable reorganisation of Kathmandu's periphery.","PeriodicalId":137433,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Environmental Science & Sustainable Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125474667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Land Consumption, Ecosystem Services and Urban Planning Policies: Preliminary Results of Research Undertaken in the Tuscany Region 土地消耗、生态系统服务和城市规划政策:托斯卡纳地区研究的初步结果

International Journal of Environmental Science & Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2021-06-30 DOI: 10.21625/essd.v6i1.789

Debora Agostini, F. Lucchesi, F. Monacci, Fabio Nardini, M. Rovai, Iacopo Zetti

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Identification, Dimension and Evaluation of Catalytic Projects in Tehran, Iran 伊朗德黑兰催化项目的识别、规模和评价

International Journal of Environmental Science & Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2021-06-30 DOI: 10.21625/essd.v6i1.790

Elnaz Sarkheyli, Kianoosh Zakerhaghighi

{"title":"Identification, Dimension and Evaluation of Catalytic Projects in Tehran, Iran","authors":"Elnaz Sarkheyli, Kianoosh Zakerhaghighi","doi":"10.21625/essd.v6i1.790","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21625/essd.v6i1.790","url":null,"abstract":"Since the 1980s, a wide range of physical and non-physical interventions, including megaprojects and flagships to small-scale projects and temporary usage, are prescribed as catalysts for urban regeneration. The strategy of utilizing urban catalysts as a tool for urban renewal has been encouraging by many city authorities through specific subsidization and privileges. However, there is no correct and precise definition of the tools and the qualities they should provide as their impacts. Besides, some criticize the catalytic projects due to their unsustainable, unjust, and destructive consequences. This paper intends to provide a more comprehensive definition of urban catalysts by reviewing the existing literature. The research has been done through a deductive and inductive approach to reach the principal dimensions and criteria for catalytic projects. It uses a series of potential projects and interventions in the City of Tehran (16 projects and practices) as case studies to check the dimensions and criteria and the quality of each project as catalysts. The quality of the selected case studies was ranked through expert judgment and checklist method. The findings show the cases' rank on how their catalytic impacts comply with sustainable development goals. According to the results, seven criteria (environmental sustainability, context-based development, pattern making, branding, social quality of life, economic prosperity, and market adaptability) are essential to ensure the sustainability of catalytic impacts of catalyst projects.","PeriodicalId":137433,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Environmental Science & Sustainable Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126002088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Impacts of Land-use Transformation on Agriculture land in Afghanistan, Kabul city as case study 阿富汗土地利用转型对农业用地的影响——以喀布尔市为例

International Journal of Environmental Science & Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2021-06-30 DOI: 10.21625/essd.v6i1.791

H. Amin, M. Helmi

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Built Morphology and the Impact of Planning Policies: Case of Small Towns in Karnataka, India 建筑形态与规划政策的影响:以印度卡纳塔克邦小城镇为例

International Journal of Environmental Science & Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2021-06-30 DOI: 10.21625/essd.v6i1.787

A. Shastri

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Understanding Tourists’ Motivations: The Case of Al Baha Montainous Region in Saudi Arabia 了解游客的旅游动机:以沙特阿拉伯巴哈山区为例

International Journal of Environmental Science & Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2021-06-30 DOI: 10.21625/essd.v6i1.793

A. Bokhari

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A Life-cycle Cost-benefit Analysis for Rooftop Photovoltaic Systems in Lightweight Steel-structured Industrial Buildings 轻钢结构工业建筑屋顶光伏系统全生命周期成本效益分析

International Journal of Environmental Science & Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2020-12-30 DOI: 10.21625/essd.v5i2.757

Xinyi Hu, Ju-Kun Hu, Hong Zhang

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Façade Solar Control and Shading Strategies for Buildings in the Mediterranean Region 地中海地区建筑立面太阳能控制与遮阳策略

International Journal of Environmental Science & Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2020-12-30 DOI: 10.21625/essd.v5i2.758

S. D. Salvo

{"title":"Façade Solar Control and Shading Strategies for Buildings in the Mediterranean Region","authors":"S. D. Salvo","doi":"10.21625/essd.v5i2.758","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21625/essd.v5i2.758","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, the growing awareness of the possibilities of biomimetic and adaptive materials in architecture has assumed a fundamental importance in the scientific domain, for the high performance of the building façades from an environmental point of view. To meet the housing and comfort needs in climates, such as the ones in the Mediterranean zones, characterized by ever-increasing temperatures, architectural technology must collaborate with nature in an even more decisive way, through increasingly smart and sustainable solutions. The paper reviews a collection of good practice examples of advances in material science, and the method used is to analyze the current performance of and building envelopes with smart façade skins, in order to suggest some potential applications in the Mediterranean basin and regions of the world with similar climatic characteristics.The latter case studies, especially, show built examples of adaptive buildings that could be adopted for use in Mediterranean regions. When the climate characteristics are somehow different, the good practices from elsewhere can be implemented in an innovative way.","PeriodicalId":137433,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Environmental Science & Sustainable Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134318661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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