This paper contributes to global debates on environmental governance by drawing recent ontological scholarship ask: What would it mean ontologically engage the concept of governance? By examining underpinnings three domains (land, water, biodiversity), we find that dominant contemporary concepts and policy instruments are grounded in a modernist ontology which actively shapes world, making cert...

This article argues that we need to look at living examples provided by non-state communities in various regions of the world are, perhaps unwittingly, contributing maintenance Earth’s optimal thermal balance. These fully sustainable have been outside mainstream for centuries, even millennia, providing global struggle against degradation social–ecological systems. They all, varying degrees, emb...

The greatest negative impact on natural wealth is human-induced. Due to the rapid increase in population of Antalya recent years, city needed new buildings, roads and living spaces. For this reason, existing green areas have been lost or stuck. In study, determination under anthropological influence such as settlement human pressure central districts Antalya, parcel measurements basic floristic...

Urban parks have significant cooling effects, which can both mitigate the urban heat is-land effect and are crucial to sustainable development of human habitat. Although studies been conducted explore influence park morphology on parks, they not sufficiently in depth. Therefore, this paper took 117 central city Chengdu as research objects based perspective quantitative classification morphology...

The paper focuses on the importance of robotics and artificial intelligence inside new urban contexts in which it is possible to consider enhance different dimensions quality life such as safety health, environmental quality, social connection civic participation. Smart technologies help cities meet challenges society, thus making them more livable, attractive responsive order plan improve city...

Rapid urbanization results in farmland loss, habitat fragmentation, biodiversity decrease, and greenhouse gas emissions. Land-use policies planning as administrative means are used to guide sustainable urban development balance the location of expansion agricultural activities. To better understand future implications a variety land-use policies, we FUTURES model scenario analysis analyze poten...

The arrangement of buildings and the environment is needed as an effort to control use space, especially realize built environment, both in urban rural areas, physical form their environment. vision structuring realization environments that are livable have identity, while missions are: (1) Empowering community administration orderly, livable, self-identified, harmonious harmonious, (2) so inde...

Based on a recent report from the United Nations, more than 50% of the world’s population currently lives in cities. This percentage is projected to increase to 70% by the year 2050 [1]. As massive amounts of people move to urban areas there is a need for cities to be run more efficiently, while at the same time improving the quality of life of their dwellers. Nevertheless, the exact same force...

A better understanding of the relationship between land surface temperature (LST) and its influencing factors is important to livable, healthy, sustainable development cities. In this study, we focused on potential effect human daily activities LST from a short-term perspective. Beijing was selected as case city, Weibo check-in data were employed measure intensity activities. MODIS analyzed use...