MEMBANGUN KESADARAN HUKUM MASYARAKAT MENUJU GREEN CITY

Growing Green Roofs, City by City

Green Attraction: Transnational Municipal Climate Networks and Green City Branding

In this article, we investigate the nexus of green city branding and municipal climate networks. In recent decades, a number of formal transnational municipal climate networks have emerged and their membership continues to increase. In parallel, city branding that is based on green policies, has gained importance. Based on quantitative and qualitative data, we assess how and to what extent Germ...

Authors: Ray Chambers* and Hukum Chandra*

An accurate estimate of the uncertainty associated with a parameter estimate is important if we want to avoid misleading inference. The bootstrap technique (Efron, 1979; Efron and Tisbshirani, 1993) is a very general way of measuring the accuracy of estimators, and was originally developed for parameter estimation given independent identically distributed (i.i.d.) data. However, random effects ...

Digging the New York City Skyline: Soil Fungal Communities in Green Roofs and City Parks

In urban environments, green roofs provide a number of benefits, including decreased urban heat island effects and reduced energy costs for buildings. However, little research has been done on the non-plant biota associated with green roofs, which likely affect their functionality. For the current study, we evaluated whether or not green roofs planted with two native plant communities in New Yo...

Green and sustainable City will become the development objective of China’s Low Carbon City in future

Environmental pollution and greenhouse gas emissions are becoming significant environmental issues in China, thus the sustainable development and revival of the country is impossible using the conventional path of encouraging economic growth at the expense of the environment. In response to the global warming, the prices of the traditional energy rise considerably, and a series of environmental...