Roof garden arrangements, which have emerged in recent years based on environmentally friendly approaches, not only increase urban aesthetics but are also a design approach that contributes to the solution of problems caused by climate change. In this study, the filtration performance of different geotextile materials was investigated based on the ...
Published in Environmental Research Letters
Water quality degradation from human related activities has become a pressing global issue, putting water security at risk around the world. Land use decisions can severely degrade stream water quality, compromising water supply and increasing water treatment costs. Here we examine changes in water quality over 20 years and their association with l...
Published in Frontiers in Environmental Science
In the field of landscape characterization, it is difficult to obtain the tourists’ perceptions of a landscape. To overcome these drawbacks, online available reviews and comments from tourists can be utilized as an alternative way to characterize a landscape. This study examined the rural landscape characterization in Yayou Gou Village, which is a ...
本研究は，大正期の京都三山における鉄道開発に対する眺望景観保全の実態を，[1]開発許可申請の手続き，[2]眺望景観の評価手法，[3]風致維持の方策，[4]風致保全の理念，の観点から明らかにし，以下の成果を得た．[1]許可申請においては，京都府土木課が計画段階から事前協議を行い，技師の調査や社寺課の意見に基づき風致指導を行った．[2]眺望景観の評価においては，市街地内の名勝や道路・橋梁からみた中遠景を基準とし，望見区間を明示するなどの技術的手法をとった．一方，不許可の場合には，山稜構成樹木の伐採等をその根拠とした．[3]風致維持方策としては，谷を通る経路選定，樹木による構造物の遮蔽等の指導が行われた．[4]山容・山姿の美しさだけでなく，史蹟・名勝の歴史的価値，神域・霊域の尊厳が重視され，その際...
Published in Environmental Research Letters
One of the greatest challenges for land managers is to maintain a multitude of ecosystem services while reducing hazards posed by wildfires, insect outbreaks, and other disturbances accelerating due to climate change. In response to limited available resources and improved technical abilities, natural resource managers are increasingly using geospa...
The publication aims to investigate the quantitative impact of linear earthworks in urban parks, e.g. during roads’ and pavements’ modernization in the old trees’ root zones, on the increment in their external parameters (e.g. trunk circumference). Pilot studies (Warsaw, Poland) were carried out 2003–2019 in two historical parks: Ursynów and Królik...
Urban areas, characterized by impervious surfaces, produce storm water runoff which during unexpected heavy rainfall exceeds the carrying capacity of the storm water drainage system causing urban flooding. Transport expressways are massive hard-scaped surfaces generating large amounts of polluted surface run-off during the rains. In the case of the...
Mangrove wetlands are facing an existential threat from rapid socio-economic development. In this study, public environmental values regarding mangrove wetlands in the Ras Al Khaimah (RAK) city in the United Arab Emirates were assessed, considering gender, age, education, income, length of residency in RAK, knowledge of RAK mangrove and awareness o...
The perception of the landscape by society is becoming an integral part of many studies in terms of the quality of the living environment, sport and recreation and building and developing social relationships. To evaluate the perception and appreciation of individual landscape types by society, we used an online questionnaire as a form of sociologi...
Published in Landscape ecology
Predatory insects contribute to the natural control of agricultural pests, but also use plant pollen or nectar as supplementary food resources. Resource maps have been proposed as an alternative to land cover maps for prediction of beneficial insects. We aimed at predicting the abundance of crop pest predating insects and the pest control service t...
