The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) basketball tournament qualifies as a sports mega-event, and cities across the United States compete vigorously with one another to host what is, by most measures, the premier intercollegiate sporting event in the United States. The promise of substantial economic impact has convinced cities to “invest” substantial sums of money to meet the dem...

This paper addresses the problem of summer branch drop (SBD) in urban forests, namely through detecting causes this unpredictable event, aiming at preventing and increasing control phenomenon, while using most recent methodologies to detect wood deterioration, visual tree assessment (VTA), drilling resistance, acoustic tomography, an isolated associated way. The study considers events cities Ar...

Blue-Green infrastructure (BGI) is recognised internationally as an approach for managing urban water challenges while enhancing society and the environment through provision of multiple co-benefits. This research employed online survey to investigate perceptions BGI held by professional stakeholders in four cities with established programs: Newcastle (UK), Ningbo (China), Portland (Oregon USA)...