Providing water in areas with unsustainable usage

Investigating strategies for optimum water usage in green spaces covered with lawn

Water supply of green spaces in arid areas is a major challenge. A high percentage of green spacescreate lawns, which are high water consumer landscapes. Due to the environmental, recreational andathletic values of lawns, they are considered as non-removable elements in urban green space development.This paper reviews and discusses strategies for efficient water usage in lawn areas using librar...

Understanding Road Usage Patterns in Urban Areas

In this paper, we combine the most complete record of daily mobility, based on large-scale mobile phone data, with detailed Geographic Information System (GIS) data, uncovering previously hidden patterns in urban road usage. We find that the major usage of each road segment can be traced to its own--surprisingly few--driver sources. Based on this finding we propose a network of road usage by de...

Providing 5G for rural areas with high transmission towers

Conched Out: Total Reconstructed Fisheries Catches for the Turks and Caicos Islands Uncover Unsustainable Resource Usage

1 Sea Around Us, Global Fisheries Cluster, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, 3 Faculty of Social Sciences, School of Environmental Studies, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, Center for Marine Resource Studies, School for Field Studies, South Caicos, Turks and Caicos Islands, Waitt...

The Unsustainable City

―Make cities more sustainable‖ is an omnipresent slogan in architecture and urban planning. This article is a discussion on theoretical and practical boundaries of using the expression ―sustainability‖ with respect to the scientific community, therefore avoiding sustainability becoming a euphemism for ―doing good‖. By definition, it can be concluded, cities developed as counterparts to the hint...