Green spaces in residential communities are important yet understudied features of the urban ecological system. While large urban parks and remnant wildlands in urban areas tend to receive public attention from conservation and management perspectives, less is known about the importance of spatial and ecological characteristics of the community-scale green space. This study investigates natural...

Abstract For achieving sustainable cities, mobility is one of the key elements. Policymakers around world are taking different strategies to ensure urban at local level. However, assessment neighborhoods a developing country received significant research gap. This study attempts close this gap by deriving and comparing neighborhood sustainability based on three indicators: modal share, travel t...

This commentary examines how specific sustainable development goals (SDGs) are affected by antimicrobial resistance and suggests how the issue can be better integrated into international policy processes. Moving beyond the importance of effective antibiotics for the treatment of acute infections and health care generally, we discuss how antimicrobial resistance also impacts on environmental, so...

physical decline and the necessity of redevelopment are never-ending challenges for built communities. neighborhoods undergo cycles of birth, growth, stabilization, decline and rejuvenation. redevelopment is a mechanism that can reduce the time an area is in decline and spur the process of revitalization. furthermore, redevelopment can provide incentives for a developer to build in a community ...

sustainable transportation with the aim of urban sustainable development aims to improve the environmental quality and the socio-economic condition. one of the most important strategies for achieving sustainable transportation is planning and designing for walking, or in other words increasing urban walkability. therefore, increased walkability has become a key issue in urban planning. understa...

The planning and scheduling of the inventory, production and distribution functions remains an open research area, since few studies have developed models allowing their integrated management. In this paper, we consider a three-stage supply chain, for which a sustainable inventory-production-distribution plan over a multi-period horizon is constructed. The associated program takes the form of a...