Ezeudu, Obiora B Agunwamba, Jonah C Ugochukwu, Uzochukwu C Ezeudu, Tochukwu S
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Reviews on environmental health
This work reviewed the past and current status of municipal solid waste (MSW) management in Nigeria towards offering a direction for the future. The past status shows that poor policy regimes, inadequate financing mechanisms, absence of waste data, and abysmal institutional arrangement negatively impacted the MSW management outcomes in the country....
górna, ada górny, krzysztof
Through structured comparison, this article seeks to present the different approaches to urban agriculture in the cities of Singapore and Kigali. The former is seen as a model ‘smart city’ worth following worldwide, while the latter is frequently referred to as the ‘Singapore of Africa’. The research conducted was divided into two stages. The first...
Mansour, G. Darteh, B. Jabagi, E. Nikiema, Josiane Cofie, Olufunke
Pham, T.T.
birkinshaw, stephen j. kilsby, chris o’donnell, greg quinn, paul adams, russell wilkinson, mark e.
The impact of stormwater drainage and detention ponds on flooding is assessed using statistical analysis and physically based computer simulation of a 45-year case study for a peri-urban catchment. In 1978, the 54 km2 Ouseburn catchment in Newcastle upon Tyne was impacted by the connection of a new 2.1 km2 residential development, directly to the O...
alamanos, angelos linnane, suzanne
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their indicators provide opportunities to best combine the available knowledge and data to monitor and estimate different metrics and track their progress. The overall picture can be complex as some indicators are often interconnected (e.g., rural and/or urban development with a water body’s status). Two...
michelam, larissa diana philippi cortese, tatiana tucunduva yigitcanlar, tan fachinelli, ana cristina vils, leonardo levy, wilson
During the last couple of decades, making cities smarter and more sustainable has become an important urban agenda. In this perspective, knowledge-based development is seen as a strategic approach for cities seeking to thrive through innovation and resilience. Accomplishing a knowledge-based development agenda is, however, challenging, and cities n...
Michelam, Larissa Diana Cortese, Tatiana Tucunduva Philippi Yigitcanlar, Tan Fachinelli, Ana Cristina Vils, Leonardo Levy, Wilson
During the last couple of decades, making cities smarter and more sustainable has become an important urban agenda. In this perspective, knowledge-based development is seen as a strategic approach for cities seeking to thrive through innovation and resilience. Accomplishing a knowledge-based development agenda is, however, challenging, and cities n...
zaborowski, tomasz
Since the introduction of the current legal planning system, Polish land policy has failed to manage the designation of developable land. The oversupply of developable land designated in land-use plans and resulting from various weaknesses of auxiliary planning permissions undermines the creation of compact urban settlements. The article argues tha...
schackmar, jakob fleschurz, rené pallagst, karina
In past decades, many cities and regions have underwent structural transformations—e.g., in old industrialized “rust belts” or in peripheral rural areas. Many of these shrinking cities have to face the challenges of long-term demographic and economic changes. While shrinkage is often related to post-industrial transformations in the USA, in other c...
