{"title":"Assessing the degree of personal exposure to PM2.5 in growing cities of Rwanda based on time-activity patterns and microenvironments","authors":"Abdou Safari Kagabo , Bonfils Safari , Jimmy Gasore , Bethwel Kipkoech Mutai","doi":"10.1016/j.cacint.2024.100174","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cacint.2024.100174","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Long-term exposure to fine particulate matter (PM<sub>2.5</sub>) is strongly linked with a wide range of diverse health effects making it a substantial global threat and a critical concern for public health. While studies have been conducted on personal exposure (PE) to PM<sub>2.5</sub> in specific environments, contributions of different microenvironments and activities to overall daily PE remain unclear. This study evaluates the degree of PE to PM<sub>2.5</sub> in five growing cities of Rwanda based on individual’s time-activity patterns and visited microenvironments. A total of 150 participants were recruited to collect real-time personal and ambient PM<sub>2.5</sub> measurements during their routine activities in different outdoor and indoor microenvironments for five consecutive days in dry season. Each participant was an employee in one of the six most prevalent urban economic activities found in their city of residence: workshops, flour mill plants, near road activities, garages, markets, kitchens and motorcycle taxi services. The participant’s day was categorized into three most distinct microenvironments grouped under home, work, and other microenvironments (other MEs). PE to PM<sub>2.5</sub> assessed for all participants showed significant variability among types of activities and categories of microenvironments (p < 0.05). The work microenvironment experienced the highest daily mean PM<sub>2.5</sub> exposures ranging from 12.67 μg/m<sup>3</sup> to 192.64 μg/m<sup>3</sup>, followed by other MEs ranging from 13.25 μg/m<sup>3</sup> to 113.58 μg/m<sup>3</sup>, while the lowest exposures observed at home microenvironment with concentrations ranging from 11.69 μg/m<sup>3</sup> to 72.54 μg/m<sup>3</sup> among 7 monitored activities in 5 cities. Exposure contributions and personal-ambient differences were dominated by the work microenvironment, with a daily contribution of flour milling activities reaching up to 51.55 %; and some participants were exposed to maximum PM<sub>2.5</sub> concentrations up to 22 times higher than ambient levels while in the kitchen activities. This study highlights the significant effects of daily personal activities and visited microenvironments on personal PM<sub>2.5</sub> exposure, and the importance of considering a personal lifestyle in understanding the true personal exposure.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":52395,"journal":{"name":"City and Environment Interactions","volume":"24 ","pages":"Article 100174"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142428684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Esther Peerlings , Saša Vranic , Joy Ommer , Milan Kalas , Gert-Jan Steeneveld
{"title":"Indoor heat in Amsterdam: Comparing observed indoor air temperatures from a professional network and from a citizen science approach","authors":"Esther Peerlings , Saša Vranic , Joy Ommer , Milan Kalas , Gert-Jan Steeneveld","doi":"10.1016/j.cacint.2024.100173","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cacint.2024.100173","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Ongoing climate change is increasing summertime temperatures, and frequency and intensity of heatwaves in Europe, which can threaten human health. Relatively little is known about how quickly outdoor heat penetrates into residences during heatwaves. Long-term and systematic networks recording indoor temperatures are challenging to install and maintain, and therefore scarce. We first report on crowdsourced indoor air temperature data in residences in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) during a heatwave event in September 2023. These data complement professional long-term indoor air temperature observations in 92 houses in Amsterdam. Second, we document the lessons learnt in the design and execution of this citizen science activity. 571 indoor temperature records were collected through the citizen science crowdsourcing approach, with a median value of 28.0 °C on the warmest day in the study period, while outdoor mean minimum and maximum temperatures reached 20.6 °C and 31.1 °C respectively. The results indicate that the crowdsourcing approach reports temperatures that are significantly higher than the professional approach, which supports the need for professional indoor networks. Finally, local media attention was critical in reaching a wide audience.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":52395,"journal":{"name":"City and Environment Interactions","volume":"24 ","pages":"Article 100173"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142428672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluating energy generation potential from municipal solid waste in an open dumping site of Khulna","authors":"Saptarshi Mondal, Islam M. Rafizul","doi":"10.1016/j.cacint.2024.100172","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cacint.2024.100172","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The expanding global population, waste output, land scarcity, and environmental deterioration make waste-to-energy (WtE) technology a feasible option for managing MSW. This study explores the economic benefits of WtE in the Rajbandh open dumpsite in Khulna and the potential of generating energy from MSW. The electricity generation potential under alternative scenarios namely scenario 2 (landfill gas to electricity (LFGTE)), scenario 3 (mass-burn incineration), scenario 4 (hybrid LFGTE, mechanical–biological treated (MBT) anaerobic digestion (AD) and incineration), and scenario 5 (hybrid AD and refuse-derived fuel (RDF) incineration) is based on projected waste generation over the next 20 years, taking population growth into account. These four options are compared to Business as Usual (BAU). Scenario 3 has the highest electricity generation capacity at 207799.73 MWh/year, followed by hybrid RDF-incineration/MBT-AD (scenario 5), LFGTE, however, lowest generation at 30683.07 MWh/year. Net Present Value (NPV), Levelized Cost of Electricity (LCOE), and Payback Period define each scenario’s economic feasibility. Due to its greatest NPV of approximately 41.378 million USD, Scenario 3 is the most economically beneficial. Sensitivity analysis has been done selecting some sensitive parameters to evaluate the robustness of the output. Waste reduction model (WARM) estimates greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and energy use for each scenario. However, scenario 3 has the lowest GHG emissions and energy use. In addition to reducing GHG emissions and energy usage, recycling waste increased NPV and economic benefits. This analysis reveals that scenario 3 is the best way to generate power, provide economic benefits, and reduce energy consumption for ecologically friendly waste management in Khulna City.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":52395,"journal":{"name":"City and Environment Interactions","volume":"24 ","pages":"Article 100172"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142327265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Beatriz Fernandes Barros , Rubens do Amaral , Maria Thereza Fonseca , Gabriel Pereira dos Santos , Gisela Barcellos de Souza , Staël de Alvarenga Pereira Costa , Maria Rita Scotti
{"title":"Old-growth Ficus trees provide soil water and carbon storage to urban greenspaces in a Brazilian metropolis","authors":"Beatriz Fernandes Barros , Rubens do Amaral , Maria Thereza Fonseca , Gabriel Pereira dos Santos , Gisela Barcellos de Souza , Staël de Alvarenga Pereira Costa , Maria Rita Scotti","doi":"10.1016/j.cacint.2024.100171","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cacint.2024.100171","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Urban flooding has been considered one of the most severe natural disasters around the world, and urban greenspaces can provide important flood regulation ecosystem services. In Belo Horizonte (Brazil), the woody vegetation, especially the old-growth <em>Ficus</em> trees, appears to protect an urban park against the flooding of the Arrudas river. Thus, we compared the soil water content, soil water-holding capacity, soil aggregation and porosity among a highly permeable urban park planted with herbaceous and woody species, including <em>Ficus</em>, a semi-permeable parking lot with only <em>Ficus</em> and an impermeable site without trees (Disturbed Site-DS). The soil water content and water holding capacity of the urban park did not differ from that of the <em>Ficus</em> site, but it was lower than DS. These results were correlated with soil organic matter (SOM) content, soil aggregation and porosity, suggesting that <em>Ficus</em> trees play an important role in the hydrological cycle. To understand how the <em>Fiscus</em> species provide such soil permeability, we compared the aboveground plant biomass, soil fertility and soil carbon sequestration (total soil carbon, soil organic matter, humic and fulvic acids and soil isotopic δ13 C) in plots with <em>Ficus</em> and without this species within the park as well as in a preserved urban forest and a disturbed square. The outstanding plant biomass produced by <em>Ficus</em> species explained the high soil carbon sequestration, particularly in humic organic matter, favouring soil aggregation, porosity and water retention. Therefore, <em>Ficus</em> species may be considered an exceptional C-sequestering species, contributing for soil stabilization and the hydrological cycle in urban greenspaces.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":52395,"journal":{"name":"City and Environment Interactions","volume":"24 ","pages":"Article 100171"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142528435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Fernández-Pampillón , M. Palacios , L. Núñez , M. Pujadas
{"title":"DeNOxing the air in urban spaces by building and construction photocatalytic coverings","authors":"J. Fernández-Pampillón , M. Palacios , L. Núñez , M. Pujadas","doi":"10.1016/j.cacint.2024.100170","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cacint.2024.100170","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A variety of air depolluting TiO<sub>2</sub>-based marketed products were applied on bituminous mixtures, sidewalk pavements and facades, giving NO<sub>x</sub> oxidation ratios under ISO 22197–1:2007 in the 35–9%, 56–2% and 28–2% ranges, respectively. Correspondingly, DeNO<sub>x</sub> toxicity indexes varied from −0.8 to 5.6, 0 to 14 and −4 to 1 μmol.</div><div>The three most efficient photocatalytic products were selected: two TiO<sub>2</sub>-water dispersions, for road and sidewalk, and a TiO<sub>2</sub>-covering, for facade. NO<sub>x</sub> purifying ability of these materials were evaluated when key physical parameters were modified. The observed NO<sub>x</sub> conversion is positively correlated with UV-A irradiance up to 10 W/m<sup>2</sup>, reaching a plateau, and negatively correlated with relative humidity, with a more pronounced decrease above 35%. Inversely, no dependence with inlet NO<sub>x</sub> concentration is observed in the range of 0.14–1 ppm<sub>v</sub>.</div><div>Further, two first-order kinetic approximations were followed to calculate NO surface deposition rates, giving 2 to 8 10<sup>−3</sup> m/s on the selected photocatalytic urban surfaces. Subsequently, the potential NO<sub>x</sub> sink effect induced in a photocatalytic urban canyon and a NO<sub>x</sub>-purifier was modelled taking NO<sub>x</sub> surface deposition rates from 10<sup>−3</sup> to 10<sup>−1</sup> m/s. Purifying devices could be utilised as a preferred option to help alleviate local atmospheric NO<sub>x</sub> in high-polluted areas.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":52395,"journal":{"name":"City and Environment Interactions","volume":"24 ","pages":"Article 100170"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142428671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lukman Kura Abraham Safo , Abdul- Rafiw Safo , Stephen Biliyitorb Liwur , Emmanuel Kwame Nti
{"title":"Green spaces in Ghana’s built environment: Analyzing perceptions and urban planning perspectives through the lens of the New Environmental Paradigm","authors":"Lukman Kura Abraham Safo , Abdul- Rafiw Safo , Stephen Biliyitorb Liwur , Emmanuel Kwame Nti","doi":"10.1016/j.cacint.2024.100168","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cacint.2024.100168","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In the busy world of city growth, urban green spaces in Ghana are befallen with destruction due to urbanization. Using a cross-sectional design and case-studying Damongo and Kintampo, this study assessed the perceptions of urban residents and urban planning perspectives about green spaces in enhancing the environmental condition of fast-growing urban areas, and proposed guidelines for the managing green spaces within Ghana’s built environment. The results revealed that underutilization and insufficient funding for greenspace management increase vulnerability to urban encroachment, especially during inward city growth. Again, the exhaustion of the limited resources of the earth could have repercussions for the population of the earth; however, the need for such resources and the level of poverty influences poor environmental decisions. Further, the results showed that planning for urban green and open space ought to be decided at the local level. The study, therefore, recommends a collaborative approach involving city authorities, private sectors, and the public for effective green space management, emphasizing inclusive decision-making and active preservation, and the development of local standards within a national framework, guided by an urban green spaces protection scheme.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":52395,"journal":{"name":"City and Environment Interactions","volume":"24 ","pages":"Article 100168"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S259025202400028X/pdfft?md5=b14f7e82764650f8b884ebe59b614177&pid=1-s2.0-S259025202400028X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142242640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Droughts and floods in a changing climate and implications for multi-hazard urban planning: A review","authors":"Maria Pizzorni, Alberto Innocenti, Nicola Tollin","doi":"10.1016/j.cacint.2024.100169","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cacint.2024.100169","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Climate change impacts global weather patterns, leading to more frequent and intense extreme weather events. Floods and droughts are the primary hazards caused by climate change, for the number of events, people affected, and global economic impacts. While traditionally addressed separately, their interconnectedness is increasingly recognized in research, policies, and practices. However, research on their interactions is limited, especially in urban areas. Therefore, this paper aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the interaction between floods and droughts by analyzing their similarities and differences. This understanding will inform multi-hazard analysis and guide urban planning. A literature review was conducted to analyze the existing body of knowledge on floods, droughts, and their interactions, specifically focusing on cities in the context of climate change and risk. First, an analysis of the characteristics and differences between floods and droughts highlights the primary distinction lies in their temporal and spatial spread. Droughts are slow-onset events that impact large areas over extended periods, while floods are rapid-onset events with a more concentrated impact. Additionally, the review identifies commonalities between the two hazards, such as shared causes, cascading effects, mutually negative impacts, potential for joint management strategies, commonly affected sectors, geographical distribution patterns, frequently cited case studies, a growing focus on urban areas, and crucial knowledge gaps that require further investigation. Finally, the paper presents a novel framework for analyzing the interconnected risks of floods and droughts. This framework emphasizes the importance of comprehensive data collection, including risk factors, contextual information, drivers, impacts, responses, and historical event data. This holistic approach aims to improve understanding of these interconnected hazards’ combined causes and effects. The article argues for a paradigm shift in urban planning towards a multi-hazard, multi-sectoral, resilient, and adaptable approach that considers both floods and droughts in the context of climate change. The article concludes with suggestions for further research.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":52395,"journal":{"name":"City and Environment Interactions","volume":"24 ","pages":"Article 100169"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590252024000291/pdfft?md5=68972d4255bff4f9d63acc00bc158e4a&pid=1-s2.0-S2590252024000291-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142163337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alfred Toku , Samuel Twumasi Amoah , Nelson Nyabanyi N-yanbini
{"title":"Exploring the potentials of urban crop farming and the question of environmental sustainability","authors":"Alfred Toku , Samuel Twumasi Amoah , Nelson Nyabanyi N-yanbini","doi":"10.1016/j.cacint.2024.100167","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cacint.2024.100167","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>As part of efforts to promote urban green spaces in increasingly urbanized cities of Africa, urban crop farming (UCF) has become a necessary pillar of urban environmental sustainability. Beyond the primary functions of food security and employment, UCF contributes to greening the urban environment and provides valuable options for urban regeneration within the broad components of environmental, social, and economic sustainability. We draw on interviews and focus group discussions in Tamale, a rapidly urbanizing Ghanaian metropolis, to examine the potential of UCF and the question of urban environmental sustainability. Our findings revealed the tremendous contributions of UCF to the provision of greenery, beautiful scenery, healthy spaces, socio-economic inclusion, and environmental restoration. We argue that reflecting and incorporating these findings in policy will be helpful for urban landscape planning and management.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":52395,"journal":{"name":"City and Environment Interactions","volume":"24 ","pages":"Article 100167"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590252024000278/pdfft?md5=dbb08ab51980e721ddf95cb0f2f8b9ab&pid=1-s2.0-S2590252024000278-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142130224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tatenda Hatidani Katsumbe, Arnesh Telukdarie, Megashnee Munsamy, Christian Tshukudu
{"title":"Extraction of the essential elements for urban systems modelling – A word-to-vector approach","authors":"Tatenda Hatidani Katsumbe, Arnesh Telukdarie, Megashnee Munsamy, Christian Tshukudu","doi":"10.1016/j.cacint.2024.100166","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cacint.2024.100166","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Due to its ever-evolving nature, urbanisation continues to escalate in complexity, further exacerbating the urban sustainability challenges. This necessitates the need for evidence-based policymaking enabled by modelling approaches, to facilitate informed decisions, and propel and gravitate towards urban sustainability. The major constraint is that of identifying the essential characteristics for consideration when modelling cities as complex systems, in a structured manner that integrates these characteristics, cognisant of their relative importance. The distinctive urban systems, corresponding system characteristics and interdependencies impacting the modelling of cities as complex systems, can be identified from peer-reviewed literature. The limiting constraint is, although there is widely available information on cities in research databases, the ability to use this literature for a quantitative model has not been proven, presenting a research gap. This approach results in significant complexities. In order to resolve these complexities, this study seeks a systems-based approach including a 2-tier structured protocol, leveraging qualitative-to-quantitative techniques to automatically extract the key systems which impact the development of city models. Through a systematic literature review, data on 13 key systems is qualitatively extracted from research databases such as Scopus and ScienceDirect, for the duration 2014 – 2024. Through word2vector analysis, machine learning techniques are utilised to perform the quantitative mapping of each urban system into corresponding system characteristics, and quantitatively illustrate them based on relative importance. The results illustrate that this proposed method is significant to characterize the essential systems that constitute a city as a complex system, based on machine learning and text analytics.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":52395,"journal":{"name":"City and Environment Interactions","volume":"24 ","pages":"Article 100166"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590252024000266/pdfft?md5=7539acf4eec970af1de377e19969f360&pid=1-s2.0-S2590252024000266-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142098179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Identifying the barriers to green infrastructure implementation in semi-arid urban areas using the DPSIR framework: A case study of Amman, Jordan","authors":"Yasmein Okour, Hadeel Shaweesh","doi":"10.1016/j.cacint.2024.100165","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cacint.2024.100165","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Research has highlighted the role of green infrastructure (GI) in addressing climate change impacts and other societal and environmental challenges in semi-arid urban areas. Regardless of this potential, GI implementation and research in arid climate zones is limited. Accordingly, using Amman, Jordan as a case study, this research aims to investigate the barriers that impede and prevent GI implementation in semi-arid urban areas. The GI barriers are conceptualized using the Driving–Pressure–State–Impact–Response (DPSIR) framework which was applied on data collected from semi-structured interviews with GI stakeholders in the city. The findings highlighted 17 general implementation barriers grouped into 6 categories. The DPSIR framework specifically highlighted the role of natural and human drivers (e.g. rapid urbanization, institutional capacities, and lacking financial resources) in creating significant barriers to GI implementation. It also illustrated the focus on open spaces and green cover in GI planning in Amman, lacking performance data on GI best practices in semi-arid contexts, and the need of integrated pathways to overcome the identified barriers. The DPSIR framework presents an easy-to-communicate picture of the state of GI implementation in the city that can be utilized by decision-makers, particularly those lacking access to diverse resources. The outcomes of this study enhances our understanding of GI planning in semi-arid urban areas and are beneficial for policymakers and practitioners looking for pathways to promote resilient urban development strategies. Overall, the study calls for further GI research on semi-arid developing contexts.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":52395,"journal":{"name":"City and Environment Interactions","volume":"24 ","pages":"Article 100165"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590252024000254/pdfft?md5=f46318ecd8433f8c2fe261750fb4339f&pid=1-s2.0-S2590252024000254-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141978481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}