Evaluating environmental resources such as urban and territorial opportunities means understanding their value. Monetary values are not always suitable to synthesize the opportunity that give development of individuals in space. We propose a spatial multi-criteria analysis method oriented analyse different within capability approach framework. visitors’ behaviour space we learn capabilities con...

The presence of urban villages inside the city is a common phenomenon in Pearl River Delta (PRD) region. This chapter investigates reference cases Guangzhou and Shenzhen, to provide insights into issues inclusiveness rapid urbanisation process this region, context industrial upgrading migration. done by exploring potentials values through mapping analysis, which serves as basis for inspirationa...

Incisive interpretations of urban-forest sustainability are important in furthering our understanding of how to sustain the myriad values associated with urban forests. Our analysis of earlier interpretations reveals conceptual gaps. These interpretations are attached to restrictive definitions of a sustainable urban forest and limited to a rather mechanical view of maintaining the biophysical ...

Urban trees are a dominant natural element in cities; they provide important ecosystem services to urban citizens and help urban areas adapt to climate change. Many rationales have been proposed to provide a purpose for urban forest management, some of which have been ineffective in addressing important ecological and social management themes. Among these rationales we find a values-based persp...

Although it has been studied for over 160 years, the urban heat island (UHI) effect is still not completely understood, yet it is increasingly important. The main purpose of this work is to improve UHI modeling by using AVHRR (Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer) satellite data to retrieve the surface parameters (albedo, as well as soil thermal and moisture properties). In this study, a hy...