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Peer-reviewed Article

April 2020

Participatory Approach for More Robust Water Resource Management: Case Study of the Santa Rosa Sub-Watershed of the Philippines

In Water

Due to the cumulative effects of rapid urbanization, population growth and climate change, many inland and coastal water bodies around the world are experiencing severe water pollution. To help make land-use and climate change adaptation policies more effective at a local scale, this study used a combination of participatory approaches and computer...

Keywords:

water quality; WEAP; climate change adaptation; urbanization; domestic wastewater

Peer-reviewed Article

April 2020

Monitoring Effect of Spatial Growth on Land Surface Temperature in Dhaka

In Remote Sensing

Spatial urban growth and its impact on land surface temperature (LST) is a high priority environmental issue for urban policy. Although the impact of horizontal spatial growth of cities on LST is well studied, the impact of the vertical spatial distribution of buildings on LST is under-investigated. This is particularly true for cities in sub...

Keywords:

spatial growth; LST; TanDEM-X -DSM; building height; urban planning

Peer-reviewed Article

April 2020

Vegetation Structure, Species Composition, and Carbon Sink Potential of Urban Green Spaces in Nagpur City, India

In Land

Nagpur is rapidly urbanizing, and in the process witnessing decline in its green status which is one of the identities of the city. The study aims to understand the current species diversity, composition and structure in different classes of greens prevalent in the city. As urban green spaces (UGS) are also reservoirs of carbon stock, the study...

Keywords:

Urban green space

carbon stock

Biomass

species diversity

vegetation strucuture

Peer-reviewed Article

January 2020

Challenges and Potential Solutions for Sustainable Urban-Rural Linkages in a Ghanaian Context

In Sustainability

Urban-rural linkages are an integral part of fostering development in both urban and rural communities. However, the focus on development tends to have an urban bias toward Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) with an increase in urbanization. Ghana is one of the fastest urbanizing countries in SSA. This paper sought to identify the challenges of urban-rural...

Keywords:

Urban-rural linkages; potential solutions; sustainable development; sub-Saharan Africa; Ghana

Peer-reviewed Article

November 2019

Challenges and an Implementation Framework for Sustainable Municipal Organic Waste Management Using Biogas Technology in Emerging Asian Countries

In sustainability

Due to its ability to recover both material and energy from organic waste, biogas technology is considered one of the best technology for treating organic waste. While in many emerging Asian countries more than 50% of municipal waste is organic waste, the amount of organic waste treated with biogas technology remains very limited. This study...

Keywords:

anaerobic digestion; biogas; developing countries; organic waste; municipal solid waste; energy recovery; material recovery

Peer-reviewed Article

July 2019

Population–Urbanization–Energy Nexus: A Review

In Resources

Energy expansion and security in the current world scenario focuses on increasing the energy generation capacity and if possible, adopting cleaner and greener energy in that development process. However, too often this expansion and planning alters the landscape and human influence on its surroundings through a very complex mechanism. Resource...

Peer-reviewed Article

May 2019

Forest Certification: More Than a Market-Based Tool, Experiences from the Asia Pacific Region

In Sustainability

Over the last 25 years, the global area of certified forests has grown rapidly and voluntary forest certification has become recognized as an effective tool to engage international markets in improving sustainability within forest management units. However, the bulk of this growth has occurred in North America, Northern Europe, Australia, and New...

Keywords:

Forest Certification

Peer-reviewed Article

April 2019

Effect of Land Use Changes on Water Quality in an Ephemeral Coastal Plain: Khambhat City, Gujarat, India

In Water

Rapid changes in land use and land cover pattern have exerted an irreversible change on different natural resources, and water resources in particular, throughout the world. Khambhat City, located in the Western coastal plain of India, is witnessing a rapid expansion of human settlements, as well as agricultural and industrial activities. This...

Keywords:

Water

Land Use

Modeling

Peer-reviewed Article

July 2018

Inventory of Glaciers in the Shaksgam Valley of the Chinese Karakoram Mountains, 1970–2014

In Remote Sensing

The Shaksgam Valley, located on the north side of the Karakoram Mountains of western China, is situated in the transition zone between the Indian monsoon system and dry arid climate zones. Previous studies have reported abnormal behaviors of the glaciers in this region compared to the global trend of glacier retreat, so the region is of special...

Peer-reviewed Article

February 2018

Normalization in Unsupervised Segmentation Parameter Optimization: A Solution Based on Local Regression Trend Analysis

In Remote Sensing

In object-based image analysis (OBIA), the appropriate parametrization of segmentation algorithms is crucial for obtaining satisfactory image classification results. One of the ways this can be done is by unsupervised segmentation parameter optimization (USPO). A popular USPO method does this through the optimization of a “global score” (GS), which...