Australian cities have experienced a high number of floods and droughts. In Australia, green infrastructure (GI) is increasingly popular in considering natural processes in sustainable water management practices. However, to date, there has been little examination of how the academic literature has addressed the use of GI in Australian landscape pl...
Tourism may be an important leverage for local development. At the same time, it may trigger unwanted effects, ranging from the congestion of services and infrastructures to the progressive deterioration of the assets that they plan to valorise. The article sheds light on this tension, discussing the multiple implications that increasing tourism fl...
Published in HERD
The COVID-19 pandemic has created considerable implications for healthcare staff around the globe. During the pandemic, the frontline healthcare workers experience intense anxiety, stress, burnout, and psychological breakdown, with severe implications on their mental and physical well-being. In addition to these implications, anxiety and stress can...
Published in IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
The Baduy tribe is one of the Sundanese indigenous groups who still adhere to the customs of their ancestors, their life is dedicated to fulfilling the mandate of their ancestors in maintaining the balance and harmony of the universe. Development activities, locally and global climate change pose a threat to traditional tribes, such as the Baduy as...
Wildlife present in urban environments uses the space as shaped by human infrastructures and activities (Jokimäki et al., 2011). Landscape planning has to take into account animals’ space use so that to enable good ecological functioning and to identify places of interface between wildlife and human, particularly relevant in the management of zoono...
The present scientific work is dedicated to the example of the capital Berlin, which experienced a unique construction boom in particular on open and green spaces after the democratic breakthrough of the wall, initiated by the opposition citizens' movement, of divided Germany in 1989. The different values of biological diversity of public green spa...
En confrontant l’expérience de trois générations de responsables pédagogiques, le présent article se propose de revenir sur près de trente ans d’existence d’une lignée de formations en matière de paysagisme d’aménagement en collaboration entre Aix-Marseille université et l’École nationale supérieure de paysage Versailles-Marseille : le DESS Paysage...
Published in Environmental Research Letters
The implementation of climate-smart policies to enhance carbon sequestration and reduce emissions is being encouraged worldwide to fight climate change. Afforestation practices and rewilding initiatives are climate-smart examples suggested to tackle these issues. In contrast, fire-smart approaches, by stimulating traditional farmland activities or ...
Although there is a consensus that landscape planning and design can play a positive role in flood mitigation, few specific reviews have explored how the strategies of landscape architecture could play a more effective and beneficial role in flood control. Focusing on the related knowledge about hydraulics, ecology, and practices of flood control, ...
Published in Hacquetia
Green infrastructure (GI) brings many benefits to urban ecosystems. Green tram tracks can be considered to be a part of GI. The presented study is focused on the comparison of the species’ frequency and composition between conventional tram tracks and green tram tracks in Bratislava, Slovakia, Central Europe. This comparison also provides an insigh...
