Abstract North Sulawesi Province, part of Wallace Bioregion, has a complex ecosystem. Advanced urban development brings various impacts, such as environmental change. Birds’ existence around human provides some advantages, assisting the process plant pollination, controlling insect populations, and indicators quality. This study aimed to determine bird species composition in four locations qual...

Generalising about urban governance and the urban poor across most of the globe is unhelpful. Unfortunately, I see far too many current examples of that disease. Latin America is not China and is most certainly not like most of Africa or the Indian subcontinent. A recent paper in this journal argued that every city in the South suffers from poor and corrupt management. While accepting that such...

The urban heat island effect is a critical factor for air quality management and public health in urbanized areas of New Jersey. This effect is related to an increase in temperatures in urban areas as compared to surrounding lower density rural sites. The overall goal of the project was to contribute to effective regional environmental management under conditions of climate change. The related ...

Regulations restricting ownership and the utilisation of private vehicles are on the rise to improve the efficiency and quality of transport systems worldwide. Rising levels of congestion, local air pollution and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions drive decision makers to adopt strategic policies to restrict traffic. License plate lotteries, driving bans, and peak-hour driving restrictions are gain...

Urban environmental management must integrate the spatial, structural features of a city, typically captured in GIS, and the dynamics of environmental quality indicators that can be obtained by monitoring. To provide decision relevant information supporting planning and management, these components are integrated in models for scenario analysis and optimisation tasks. The paper describes some r...

introduction this study is dealt with the environmental planning from a bio-cybernetic and hierarchical systems viewpoint within the context of landscape ecology. this viewpoint requires not only knowledge of the science of ecology but also ecological wisdom in order to recognize the place of humankind in nature. the conceptual and practical approach which is provided will help landscape planne...

University campuses must take a leadership position in helping cities and nations address the challenges and opportunities of climate change, urban population growth in developing countries, as well as aging populations in developed countries. To turn these challenges into opportunities require systems integration approaches to providing regional, urban and local energy, connectivity, water, mo...