Nowadays, where public projects are more and more committed to sustainable development, the user perception become a determinant factor for the decision-making process. This paper targets to evaluate the use of an immersive, multisensory and interactive method based on virtual reality (VR) system in order to study human behaviour and perception. Today, non-immersive, non-interactive and mono-se...

vernacular architecture has always had appropriate answer in conformity with the environment and climate. this paper has considered values of iran vernacular urbanization and architecture in humid and moderate climate looking through sustainability and sustainable development concepts. gorgan city has been studied using laboratory studies and available sources and relying on the content analysi...

The Open University's repository of research publications and other research outputs A Systemic approach to scoping of factors influencing more sustainable land use in Herefordshire Journal Article (2006). A Systemic approach to scoping of factors influencing more sustainable land use in Herefordshire. Local Environment, 11(6) pp. 683–699. For guidance on citations see FAQs. Copyright and Moral...

The current growing body of evidence for diversity-disturbance relationships suggests that the peaked pattern predicted by the intermediate disturbance hypothesis (IDH) may not be the rule. Even if ecologists could quantify the diversity-disturbance relationship consistent with the IDH, the applicability of the IDH to land management has rarely been addressed. We examined two hypotheses related...

Road development, traffic intensification, and collisions with wildlife represent a danger both for road safety species conservation. For planners, deciding which mitigation methods to apply is often problematic. Through kernel density estimate, we analyzed 715 crossing locations wildlife–vehicle (WVCs) involving brown bears, lynx, wolf, red deer, roe wild boar in the Southeastern Carpathian Mo...

Agro-ecosystems constitute essential habitat for many organisms. Agricultural intensification, however, has caused a strong decline of farmland biodiversity. Organic farming (OF) is often presented as a more biodiversity-friendly practice, but the generality of the beneficial effects of OF is debated as the effects appear often species- and context-dependent, and current research has highlighte...

Because the viability of a population may depend on whether individuals can disperse, it is important for conservation planning to understand how landscape structure affects movement behavior. Some species occur in a wide range of landscapes differing greatly in structure, and the question arises of whether these species are particularly versatile in their dispersal or whether they are composed...