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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Ecological Infrastructure"”.
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Water+works : a new ecological infrastructure
With the global water crisis as catalyst, Water+Works acts as a model for a localized water initiative that will mitigate flooding and provide a freshwater resource in times of crisis, while enriching urban ecosystems and creating a vibrant recreational amenity for a new civic public. The new …
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Viability analysis for investing in ecological infrastructure to secure water supply: A case study of South Africa
… increasing understanding of the role that both ecological and built infrastructure can have in economic growth and development in terms of water supply. However, degradation of ecological infrastructure (EI) is resulting in the loss of valuable ecosystem services that benefit human well-being. …
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Ecological Infrastructure: A Framework for Planning and Design: "Addressing Landscape Connectivity and Wildlife Resources for Interstate Highway Systems"
… areas and is the basis of our transportation infrastructure. Unfortunately, many roadways were not planned or designed with wildlife in mind. As long linear features in the landscape, interstates can function as landscape barriers and cause significant impacts to adjacent wildlife populations. …
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Stó:lō Relationalities: Exploring Infrastructures of Climate Adaptation along the Fraser River
… urgency of climate change caused by flooding and ecological degradation to the material and political hierarchies produced by settler-colonial infrastructures. All of which is imposed onto a rich landscape of indigenous life and history. This paper's approach follows three phases—encountering, …
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A Natural Resource and Landscape Management Framework for the Bergrivier Municipality
… beings have caused large scale destruction of ecological infrastructure and degradation of land, soils, water and the relationship between people and the natural world. Drawing on past regional theory, this Natural Resource and Landscape Management Framework investigates ways in which to …
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Amphibian urbanism in Dhaka’s contested wetlands
… ecosystem services and are globally critical infrastructure in the era of manufactured climate change. With rare exceptions, planners and policymakers have neglected urban wetlands. In this research, I delve into the complex relationship between urbanization and wetlands under a globally …