Environmental issues can provide an excellent way to connect mathematics with the sciences. At Florida Atlantic University’s Honors College, faculty are working together to build an interdisciplinary curriculum for lower-division mathematics, biology, chemistry and environmental science. Traditional calculus and statistics courses introduce environmental materials, some adapted from outside sou...

this paper reviews the experience of persian designers and planners for creating the most livableand greenery capital city in the hole region of middle east throughout the 17th century. new concepts of urban greendevelopment emerged in that time. some of these ideas where extremely creative and vanguard from there era andstill some of them are the main theoretical basics of urban green planning...

Linear cultural heritage—a heritage system spanning time and space—is a large-scale settlement that accommodates various types. Here, we comprehensively explored the Straight Road (Zhidao) of Qin Dynasty in Shaanxi Province, China, as gene traditional connotations geographical features, provided holistic conservation strategies effective utilization paths. From an ecological security pattern pe...

Background As Michael McCally notes in Life Support: The Environment and Human Health, “it is at least since the time of Hippocrates’s essay Air, Water, and Places that humans have been aware of the many connections between health and the environment.” Despite this awareness, seldom do we create an environment optimal for achieving health and wellbeing. A vital part of an environment which is s...

It is widely acknowledged that the quality of greenway landscape resources enhances visual appeal people. While most studies have evaluated perception and preference, few considered relationship between distribution greenways in relation to proximity water bodies such as lakes rivers. Such an investigation requires in-depth analysis how plan design order better enhance people’s willingness acce...

In the context of high-quality urban development and increasingly important role green infrastructure (UGI) in public life, landscape activity (LA) has gradually become a dominant indicator for improving UGI quality efficiency, as well optimizing its environmental friendliness meeting recreational needs public. Relevant studies have shown that ecological index (EI) vitality (PVI) can characteri...

In the best practices, planning of urban green spaces is managed in such a way that it follows the key principles such as meeting per capita standards and providing accessible and balanced distribution of these spaces all across the city. In the context of emerging economy, these principles are unfortunately not followed strictly all times. In this study, it is attempted to investigate Tabriz c...

The existence of brownfields in cities, and their common disadvantages, such as pollution and their detriment to natural habitats, have damaged local communities and their environment over time. Whereas the renovation and regeneration of these brownfields and transforming them into centers of activity could assist the economy and society to flourish. At the same time improving the quality of th...

Efforts to minimize people’s exposure to air pollution historically have focused on curbing emissions from tailpipes and smokestacks. But increases in vehicle-kilometers traveled—that is, more cars spending more time on the road—have tempered that effect. Moreover, residential areas, hospitals, and schools often are built adjacent to main traffic arteries, where emissions are highest. An intern...

BACKGROUND Evidence regarding the association of the built environment with physical activity is influencing policy recommendations that advocate changing the built environment to increase population-level physical activity. However, to date there has been no rigorous appraisal of the quality of the evidence on the effects of changing the built environment. The aim of this review was to conduct...