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Truelove, Yaffa. "Gendered infrastructure and liminal space in Delhi’s unauthorized colonies." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 39, no. 6 (2021): 1009–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/02637758211055483.
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This paper takes an embodied approach to the lived experiences and everyday politics of liminal neighborhoods and infrastructures in Delhi’s unauthorized colonies, which lack official entitlements to networked infrastructures such as water and sewerage. Bringing a feminist political ecology lens to critical infrastructure studies, I show how gendered social relations, subjectivities, and the unequal experience of urban liminality are tied to accessing water and its fragmented infrastructures beyond the network. In particular, liminal infrastructural space is produced in unauthorized colonies through not only these neighborhoods’ quasi-legal status and unequal access to urban water, but also through gendered discourses and the socially differentiated ways water infrastructures are co-produced, managed, and made livable by residents. As water is primarily accessed beyond the network via tubewells and tankers, I demonstrate how these fractured modalities ultimately constitute gendered infrastructural assemblages that enable water’s circulation across neighborhoods but also serve to deepen forms of gendered marginality and differentiation. Here, gendered infrastructural practices and labor to negotiate and supplement fragmented components of water infrastructure shape subjectivities and possibilities for social relations and urban claims-making. These infrastructural assemblages expose both the situated experience of urban liminality, as well as its transcendent possibilities.
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Brown, Hillary. "Infrastructural Ecology: Embedding Resilience in Public Works." Public Works Management & Policy 24, no. 1 (2018): 20–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1087724x18784602.
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The destabilization of earth’s climate—manifest today in rising sea levels, more frequent droughts, deluges, and rising temperatures—demands expansive thinking in our infrastructural investments. Such volatility imperils coastal and riverine populations, degrades agriculture, and fosters water insecurity. We require innovative, multidimensional solutions to these public works challenges. Infrastructural ecology is a planning paradigm that emulates the closed-loop, sharing logic of natural ecosystems. It suggests that features of our power, water, sanitation, transport, and food systems may be strategically combined, collocated, or otherwise linked for mutual benefit. Such interconnected systems then can cascade (pass along) waste energy or water and nutrients for another’s reuse, arrangements that can reduce pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, while lowering demand for new resource inputs. Innovative examples from both industrialized as well as developing nations illustrate the efficacy of these strategies. The exemplary projects described here include smart coastal solutions, water-wise innovations, and coping strategies for warming cities.
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Weber, Ryan. "Making infrastructure into nature." Communication Design Quarterly 10, no. 3 (2022): 33–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3507870.3507875.
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This article contributes to a growing research area in writing studies that examines how documents perform infrastructure functions. The article uses document analysis and interviews to examine the ecology of documents necessary to establish oyster aquaculture in the state of Alabama. The results show that performative infrastructural documents exist in a larger ecology of documents and that they can embed themselves in natural environments and living creatures. This analysis extends the analytical framework of infrastructure-based writing studies by connecting writing and infrastructure with the natural world.
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Faia, Hillary Brown. "Infrastructural ecology as a planning paradigm: Two case studies." International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning 13, no. 02 (2018): 187–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.2495/sdp-v13-n2-187-196.
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Dunlap, Alexander. "Bureaucratic land grabbing for infrastructural colonization: renewable energy, L’Amassada, and resistance in southern France." Human Geography 13, no. 2 (2020): 109–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1942778620918041.
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Governments and corporations exclaim that “energy transition” to “renewable energy” is going to mitigate ecological catastrophe. French President Emmanuel Macron makes such declarations, but what is the reality of energy infrastructure development? Examining the development of a distributional energy transformer substation in the village of Saint-Victor-et-Melvieu, this article argues that “green” infrastructures are creating conflict and ecological degradation and are the material expression of climate catastrophe. Since 1999, the Aveyron region of southern France has become a desirable area of the so-called renewable energy development, triggering a proliferation of energy infrastructure, including a new transformer substation in St. Victor. Corresponding with this spread of “green” infrastructure has been a 10-year resistance campaign against the transformer. In December 2014, the campaign extended to building a protest site, and ZAD, in the place of the transformer called L’Amassada. Drawing on critical agrarian studies, political ecology, and human geography literatures, the article discusses the arrival process of the transformer, corrupt political behavior, misinformation, and the process of bureaucratic land grabbing. This also documents repression against L’Amassada and their relationship with the Gilets Jaunes “societies in movement.” Finally, the notion of infrastructural colonization is elaborated, demonstrating its relevance to understanding the onslaught of climate and ecological crisis.
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Vladimirov, Vladimir, Evgenii Petrovich Krupochkin, and Dmitrii Evgen'evich Sarafanov. "A Subject-Oriented Historical GIS (the Example of Barnaul Infrastructure in the Late 18th – Early 20th Centuries)." Историческая информатика, no. 1 (January 2020): 66–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.7256/2585-7797.2020.1.32091.
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The article studies the infrastructure of Barnaul city in the second half of the 18th - early 20th centuries. The study aims at acquiring new systematic knowledge about the way the infrastructure of West Siberian cities developed, the influence of infrastructural objects on city ecology, the correlation of demographical and ecological factors influencing the city development and urban population reproduction. The study rests on an extensive source database including written, cartographic and photo documents stored mainly in the state archives of Altai Krai and Tomskaya Oblast as well as a number of published sources. The methodological basis of the work is the systemic and interdisciplinary approaches, the general scientific as well as traditional historical research methods. Geoinformation analysis based on the subject-oriented historical geoinformation system created is used as the main way to obtain new information. The article analyzes spatial aspects of the city infrastructure and ecological factors of its development and demonstrates changes in the disposition of infrastructural objects in the late 19th – early 20th centuries. The article concludes that the negative impact of ecologically unfriendly city objects was exerted mainly through aggravating sanitary environment and ecosystems.
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Radonic, Lucero, and Sarah Kelly-Richards. "Pipes and praxis: a methodological contribution to the urban political ecology of water." Journal of Political Ecology 22, no. 1 (2015): 389. http://dx.doi.org/10.2458/v22i1.21115.
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This article contributes to the urban political ecology of water through applied anthropological research methods and praxis. Drawing on two case studies in urban Sonora, Mexico, we contribute to critical studies of infrastructure by focusing on large infrastructural systems and decentralized alternatives to water and sanitation provisioning. We reflect on engaging with residents living on the marginal hillsides of two rapidly urbanizing desert cities using ethnographic methods. In the capital city of Hermosillo, Radonic emphasizes how collaborative reflection with barrio residents led her to reframe her analytical approach to water governance by recognizing informal water infrastructure as a statement of human resilience in the face of social inequality, resource scarcity, and material disrepair. In the border city of Nogales, Kelly-Richards reflects on the outcomes of conducting community-based participatory research with technical students and residents of an informally settled colonia around the construction of a composting toilet, while also investigating municipal government service provision efforts. Our article invites readers to view these infrastructure alternatives as ways to explore how applied anthropology can advance the emancipatory potential of urban political ecology through a collaborative investigation of uneven urbanization and basic service provisioning. We emphasize everyday situated relationships with infrastructure in informally organized neighborhoods. Using praxis to collectively investigate the complex and entangled relations between large piped water and sanitation projects and locally developed alternatives in under serviced areas, the two case studies reveal lessons learned and illuminate grounded research openings for social justice and environmental sustainability.Key words: Applied anthropology, infrastructure, political ecology, praxis, water governance, social justice
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Sandybayeva, U. "Critical Infrastructure Studies in the Social Sciences and Humanities." Bulletin of the L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University. Historical Sciences. Philosophy. Religion Series 144, no. 3 (2023): 269–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.32523/2616-7255-2023-144-3-269-289.
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Over the last 20-30 years there has been an interdisciplinary «infrastructure shift». Infrastructural themes have taken root in academic research in the social sciences and humanities. The methodological strategies of this approach have demonstrated their explanatory power in addressing many contemporary problems, which makes this approach attractive. Critical infrastructure study has emerged as a basis for combining thinking about the complex relationships between society and its material structures. It can be postcolonial research, feminist theories, science and technology research, and more. Infrastructure is a mixture of things and ideas imbued with a variety of attitudes. The critical study of these relationships requires the comparison of views of different disciplines and many fields, such as information systems (large technical systems), big data analysis (Big Data), science and technology research, cultural, political, and philosophical approaches. The main methodological approaches to the critical infrastructure study are presented in the journal «Roadsides», which is a forum devoted to the study of the social, cultural and political life of infrastructure. The name itself is a metaphor referring to different types of interactions that occur near infrastructures. In the article some aspects of interaction of architecture, policy, museum, public space, aesthetics, environmental sustainability and infrastructure are discussed. However, the critical study of infrastructure is still not well represented in domestic humanitarian and social studies. This article aims to show the potential of infrastructure approach for interdisciplinary research of culture, ecology, space, city, including feminist, postcolonial optics.
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Acharya, Abinav. "The Political Ecology of Urban Expansion and Air Pollution in Kathmandu." Journal of Development Review 9, no. 1 (2024): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jdr.v9i1.69035.
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This study analyzes the relationship between rapid urbanization, political priorities, and air quality issues in Kathmandu city of Nepal, aiming to identify sustainable urban planning solutions. Utilizing secondary data sources, such as governmental reports, environmental studies, and urban development records, the research employs a mixed-methods approach to analyze the factors driving urban expansion and their impact on air pollution. Key variables measured include population density, urban growth rate, traffic volume, industrial activity, and green space availability. The findings reveal that unregulated urban growth, driven by economic and infrastructural priorities, significantly contributes to deteriorating air quality. Political decisions often prioritize development over environmental protection, leading to insufficient enforcement of pollution control measures. Critical gaps in urban planning policies, such as the lack of green spaces and weak regulatory frameworks for industrial emissions, are identified. To address these issues, the study suggests implementing stricter air quality regulations, promoting green infrastructure, and enhancing public transportation systems. It recommends increasing inter-agency collaboration to integrate environmental considerations into urban development plans and engaging local communities in environmental decision-making processes. The research concludes that balancing development goals with environmental sustainability is essential for mitigating pollution and promoting healthier urban living conditions in Kathmandu.
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L, Ponyaev. "Optimal Design of Green Tech Hybrid Electric Integrated Aircraft and Solar Disk Airships for Short Arctic Air Transport Corridors." Environmental Sciences and Ecology: Current Research (ESECR 2, no. 6 (2021): 1–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.54026/esecr/1036.
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The Ecology Decarburization issues decision may focus priority to the complex Design Analysis of the more Optimal Structure of the Large E-Aircraft and E-Airship for decrease of the Weight and Engine Power with Hybrid Electric Propulsion (HEP) systems are very actually today for Worldwide Ecology Program. The Method of Aircraft layout from the virtual mass center is given, which allows us to obtain the Aircraft layout from the conditions of Infrastructural Constraints in the terminal configurations of the Modern Air Transportation Infrastructure and IATA/ICAO Regulation. Calculate Method is proposed for the synthesis of new circuit solutions for an Aircraft passenger compartment and may be use to any Solar E-Dirigibles Projections future. A Geometrical representation of the concept of LHA with large passenger capacity made with a Drop-Shaped Fuselage in the Aerodynamic balancing Flying Wing Body Scheme is given. The new Body Plane E-Aircraft and Lighter-then-Air (LTA) Vehicles with cover of Solar Film Component Systems will be more innovation projections for High Safety Green Tech Air Transportation.
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Simonsen Abildgaard, Mette, Carina Ren, Israel Leyva-Mayorga, Cedomir Stefanovic, Beatriz Soret, and Petar Popovski. "Arctic Connectivity: A Frugal Approach to Infrastructural Development." ARCTIC 75, no. 1 (2022): 72–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.14430/arctic74869.
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As the Arctic is heating up, so are efforts to strengthen connectivity within the region, enhance the connections from remote settlements to the global networks of trade, and increase sociality. With global interest in the Arctic on the rise, it becomes increasingly relevant to ensure that investments in Arctic infrastructure actually serve the people of the Arctic, while promoting industrial and commercial innovation in the region through widespread access to broadband and Internet of things (IoT) services. This challenge calls for interdisciplinary research strategies that are able to connect and integrate technological and societal approaches, which are commonly applied in isolation from one another. In this article, we propose an interdisciplinary collaborative research agenda for Arctic connectivity. Drawing on examples from Greenland, we stress the need for localized knowledge to design valuable and cost-effective connectivity solutions that cover the needs for everyday life and may also provide a new set of collaborative connectivity tools for innovation at an international level. Such solutions, termed “frugal connectivity,” are vital for the development of connected Arctic communities.
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Specht, Pamela Hammers. "Munificence and Carrying Capacity of the Environment and Organization Formation." Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 17, no. 2 (1993): 77–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/104225879301700207.
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Two streams of research and theory development, resource dependence and population ecology, are combined to develop a model of the relationship between organization formation and environmental munificence and carrying capacity. An Interactive and curvilinear relationship is predicted. Munificence is reflected in social, economic, political, market, and Infrastructural resources. Carrying capacity involves density and prior births and deaths In an organization's population. Propositions and research recommendations are presented.
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Heald, Jeremy. "Application of a sustainable destination framework to model Mexican heritage destination resilience in times of crisis." Acta Universitaria 33 (May 17, 2023): 1–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.15174/au.2023.3773.
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The article discusses World Heritage Site Guanajuato, Mexico, a mature destination which suffers sustainability issues concerning water provision, traffic congestion, and refuse collection, the result of chaotic urban growth. Stagnating visitor numbers indicates ageing social infrastructure, dated tourism products, and reputational damage of public insecurity. The research objective is to improve municipal planning by using a resilience framework from the tourism ecology literature to encourage sustainable development. It integrates the results of a 2021 survey of local tourism business opinion and finds Guanajuato’s multi-business owners are innovative in crisis, reacting to covid-19 with changes to their products and services. Federal and State government hardly responded. It should widen membership of the municipal Tourist Board and incorporate project evaluators within the local Planning Office to apply a resilience model to address environmental, infrastructural, and tourism challenges.
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Larysa Sergiienko, Larysa Sergiienko, Oleksii Sidelkovskyi Oleksii Sidelkovskyi, and Andrii Akhromkin Andrii Akhromkin. "SECURITY DETERMINANTS OF DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY OF URBANIZED TERRITORIES." Socio World-Social Research & Behavioral Sciences 13, no. 03 (2023): 19–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.36962/swd13032023-19.
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In this study, the consequences of urbanization were identified and their impact on the safety of urbanized areas and the well-being of residents in such areas were justified. As a result of the research, the consequences of urbanization were determined and characterized from the perspectives of ecological, economic, infrastructural, social, and humanitarian environments. These identified consequences require immediate mitigation, as they pose threats to both the safety of residents and, overall, the safety of urbanized areas and national security as a composite of its components - ecological, economic, humanitarian, social, etc. The impact of ecological, economic, social, humanitarian, and infrastructural consequences of urbanization poses threats to the safety of urbanized areas, the well-being of city dwellers, and national security in general. Negative impacts of the identified consequences are traced for individual components of national security. Economic, social, and infrastructural consequences constitute threats to economic and socio-humanitarian security, while ecological consequences pose risks to ecological and food security. It is pertinent to note the close interconnection of components of national security, which is evident in their mutual influence. For instance, consequences of economic nature identified by us, such as urban poverty, pose a threat to economic security and, simultaneously, pose a threat to social security, manifested in the exacerbation of social inequality and stratification, as well as the intensification of health problems in cities. These consequences also pose a threat to ecological security as one of the factors exacerbating waste issues and, consequently, deteriorating the sanitary-epidemiological situation. Key words: state policy, urbanization, urbanized territories, public administration, state security, national security, consequences, safety, well-being, ecological impact, economic impact, infrastructural impact, social impact, humanitarian impact.
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Bao, Weihong. "Hermeneutics of Doubt." Representations 157, no. 1 (2022): 142–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/rep.2022.157.7.142.
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This essay dwells on atmosphere as a mediating, climatic environment to consider climate as the nexus of mind, medium, and society. An inquiry into atmosphere, I argue, opens up climate from an objective entity into a constellation of aesthetic, infrastructural, and epistemological operations. I situate this richer notion of climate in China during the Second World War and its immediate aftermath by focusing on “doubt” as a unique atmosphere caught in the transnational traffic in media practices, psychological war, and genre film. Through an intimate conversation between aesthetics and technology, hermeneutics and media ecology, this essay conducts an experimental climatology to consider climate not simply as a physical milieu but as a method. Such a climatology—bringing together infrastructural analysis, aesthetic design, and sociopolitical projects—will allow us to engage “global climate change” and “affective climate change” as interconnected and integrated projects of sustainability.
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Wacogne, Remi. "When Heritage and Landscape Values Are Confronted by Planned Infrastructures: A Glance at ‘Public Debate’ (‘Dibattito Pubblico’) Procedures in Italy." Sustainability 16, no. 14 (2024): 6218. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su16146218.
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Public debate procedures (“dibattito pubblico”, DP) have been recently introduced in Italy to provide an additional platform for public participation into infrastructure-related decision-making processes. Inspired by their French equivalent (“débat public”), these procedures sensibly differ from EIAs as they occur at a very early stage, i.e., before projects’ final drafting. Another significant difference, specific to the Italian context, is a provision dedicated to heritage sites and protected areas foreseeing a wider application of DPs in those contexts. This paper aims to further explore the different relationships between actors at play within DP procedures on the one hand, and heritage sites and landscapes on the other hand, through the analysis of dedicated reports and other documents. Heritage- and landscape-related values are commonly mobilized in relation to all infrastructural projects considered, although in various ways and sometimes with conflicting aims. The article highlights that environmental conflicts are likely to affect and mobilize heritage and landscape values, and calls for a closer dialogue between infrastructure planning, heritage and landscape planning, and political ecology.
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Balčiauskas, Linas, Andrius Kučas, and Laima Balčiauskienė. "A Review of Wildlife–Vehicle Collisions: A Multidisciplinary Path to Sustainable Transportation and Wildlife Protection." Sustainability 17, no. 10 (2025): 4644. https://doi.org/10.3390/su17104644.
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This review synthesizes historical and contemporary research on wildlife–vehicle collisions and roadkill, outlining its evolution from early documentation to modern road ecology. It discusses how early efforts in North America and Europe that quantified animal casualties and developed standardized methodologies formed current studies that use advanced geospatial tools, citizen science, and artificial intelligence to analyze spatiotemporal patterns. We examine key ecological, methodological, and economic impacts of roadkill on wildlife populations and human safety, highlighting the role of road density, vehicle speed, and seasonal factors. The framework presented also underscores a commitment to sustainability by integrating environmental conservation with infrastructural development and socio-economic resilience. The review details various mitigation strategies, from fencing and wildlife crossings to dynamic signage, and evaluates their effectiveness in reducing mortality rates, thereby supporting sustainable development in transportation infrastructure and wildlife management. It also identifies research gaps and outlines future directions, advocating for integrated, multidisciplinary approaches to improve wildlife conservation, infrastructure planning, and public awareness in the context of rapidly expanding road networks.
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Arboleda, Martín. "In the Nature of the Non-City: Expanded Infrastructural Networks and the Political Ecology of Planetary Urbanisation." Antipode 48, no. 2 (2015): 233–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/anti.12175.
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Kuprikov, Mikhail, Leonid Ponyaev, and Nikita Kuprikov. "DECREASE OF SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL AND NOISE INSIDE HYBRID ELECTRIC WING BODY PLANES AND DIRIDGABLES." Akustika 34 (November 1, 2019): 170–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.36336/akustika201934170.
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The analysis of the find Optimal Structure of the Large Aircraft and Airship for decrease of Sound/Noise Pressure Level inside and outside the Cabin Saloon are very actually today for Worldwide Ecology Program. The Method of Aircraft layout from the virtual mass center is given, which allows us to obtain the Aircraft layout from the conditions of Infrastructural Constraints in the terminal configurations of the Modern Air Transportation Infrastructure and IATA/ICAO Regulation. A Method is proposed for the synthesis of new circuit solutions for an Aircraft passenger compartment and may be use to any Diridgables Projections future. A Geometrical representation of the concept of LHA with large passenger capacity made with a Drop-Shaped Fuselage in the Aerodynamic balancing Flying Wing Body Scheme is given.The new Body Plane LHA and Lighter-then-Air (LTA) Vehicles with cover of Solar Electro Systems will be more innovation projections for Worldwide Security Air Transportation with reduce Noise and CO Pollution Level.
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Law, Tamar, and Jenny Goldstein. "Amphibious Land Repair." Environment and Society 15, no. 1 (2024): 110–41. https://doi.org/10.3167/ares.2024.150106.
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Abstract Amphibious landscapes, wetlands such as coasts, mangroves, peatlands, and deltas, have seen a recent surge in large-scale restoration efforts. This article examines this trend in Southeast Asia, reviewing the history and contemporary dynamics of wetland restoration in the region. Drawing from literatures on the political ecology of restoration, infrastructure studies, and the financialization of nature, we understand wetland restoration as a form of repair to highlight it as a socio-political process. We conceptualize restoration as infrastructural land repair, the process of restoring dynamic ecosystems for specific anthropocentric and economic aims, mediated through an amalgam of expertise, technology, and finance. We reveal how restoration can function as a socio-ecological fix, maintaining the same political-economic systems that initially caused wetland degradation. Finally, we identify a need for three areas of scholarship to be expanded on how restoration unfolds in practice within the SEA context, which will be crucial to informing more reparative forms of restoration.
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Nolan, Callum, Michael K. Goodman, and Filippo Menga. "In the shadows of power: the infrastructural violence of thermal power generation in Ghana's coastal commodity frontier." Journal of Political Ecology 27, no. 1 (2020): 775–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.2458/v27i1.23571.
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This research adopts Jason Moore's concept of the commodity frontier, which portrays the socio-ecological impacts of capitalist expansion, to analyze the spread of Independent Power Provision in Sub-Saharan Africa. This form of power provision has thus far been under-theorized, especially its impacts on local communities, which must be addressed considering its contemporary popularity in the region. The article uses the concept of 'infrastructural violence' as an analytical lens, drawing upon its language and theories that describe the ways in which physical infrastructures often deemed benign can inflict violence on specific regions and social groups. Using a case study of the Takoradi Thermal Power Station in the Western Region of Ghana, the ethnographic research depicts the subtle yet highly deleterious forms of violence that occur within Aboadze, the small-scale fishing community the power station is embedded in, reducing access to vital resources including food, water and land, as well as the various exclusions that impact the livelihoods of a community already suffering from marginalization and poverty.Keywords: Commodity frontiers, infrastructural violence, power station, Sub-Saharan Africa, Ghana
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Sophus Lai, Signe, and Sofie Flensburg. "A proxy for privacy uncovering the surveillance ecology of mobile apps." Big Data & Society 7, no. 2 (2020): 205395172094254. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2053951720942543.
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The article develops a methodological and empirical approach for gauging the ways Big Data can be collected and distributed through mobile apps. This approach focuses on the infrastructural components that condition the disclosure of smartphone users’ data – namely the permissions that apps request and the third-party corporations they work with. We explore the surveillance ecology of mobile apps and thereby the privacy implications of everyday smartphone use through three analytical perspectives: The first focuses on the ‘appscapes’ of individual smartphone users and investigates the consequences of which and how many mobile apps users download on their phones; the second compares different types of apps in order to study the app ecology and the relationships between app and third-party service providers; and the third focuses on a particular app category and discusses the functional as well as the commercial incentives for permissions and third-party collaborations. Thereby, the article advances an interdisciplinary dialogue between critical data studies, political economy and app studies, and pushes an empirical and critical perspective on mobile communication, app ecologies and data economies.
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Johnson, Catherine. "The appisation of television: TV apps, discoverability and the software, device and platform ecologies of the internet era." Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Television Studies 15, no. 2 (2020): 165–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1749602020911823.
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This article examines the appisation of television: the emergence of apps as a mainstream means of delivering television services/content through smart TVs, connected devices, smartphones and tablets. Exploring the interrelationships between TV content, discovery and aggregator apps, the article demonstrates how content/software providers, device manufacturers and infrastructural platforms vie to control our access to, and experience of, television in a market underpinned by datafication, commodification and selection. This control is enacted within a multidimensional software, device and platform ecology where discoverability is central because it determines which content, services and apps are most prominent, accessible and easy to find.
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Gorda, Aprillia, Eva Dolorosa, and NFN Radian. "Multidemensional Scaling Benih Lada Bersertifikat di Provinsi Kalimantan Barat." Buletin Penelitian Tanaman Rempah dan Obat 32, no. 2 (2022): 62. http://dx.doi.org/10.21082/bullittro.v32n2.2021.62-74.
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<p><em><em>West Kalimantan Province is one of Indonesia's seven largest pepper-producing provinces and was solicited to be a pioneer and advocate of the national pepper development program. This study aimed to analyze the sustainability status of certified pepper seedlings in West Kalimantan. The sustainability of the seeds system was analyzed using the multidimensional scaling (MDS) method in four districts with seed orchard and pepper seedlings producers: Bengkayang District, Sambas District, Sanggau District, and Sintang District. The research stages were an analysis of the sustainability status based on the dimensions of ecology, economy, socio-culture, technology, and infrastructure, as well as legal and institutional, followed by an MDS analysis of 50 attributes related to the sustainability index scale based on values ranging from 0–100. The ecological, socio-cultural, technological, and infrastructural dimensions were quite sustainable in the certified pepper seedlings supply system, while the economic, legal, and institutional dimensions were less sustainable. 34 out of 50 attributes were influential and sensitive to the sustainability status of certified pepper seedlings. The dominant attributes were drought/dry season (ecology), low awareness of farmers in using certified seeds (social-culture) related to low demand </em><em>for certified pepper seedlings (economy), production planning and seed distribution (technology and infrastructure), and the necessity to cooperate with a research institution and seed orchard (legal and institutional). Therefore, special efforts were required from the local government to increase the pepper seedlings' availability and provide information on good pepper cultivation management to farmers and pepper seedlings managers.</em></em></p>
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Andersen, Astrid Oberborbeck. "Infrastructures of progress and dispossession." Focaal 2016, no. 74 (2016): 28–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/fcl.2016.740103.
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This article examines what economic growth and state versions of progress have done to small and medium-scale farmers in an urban setting, in Arequipa in southern Peru. The general reorganization of production, resources, and labor in the Peruvian economy has generated a discursive move to reposition small and medium-scale farmers as backward. This article analyzes how farmers struggle to find their place within a neoliberal urban ecology where different conceptions of what constitutes progress in contemporary Peru influence the landscape. Using an analytical lens that takes material and organizational infrastructures and practices into account, and situates these in specific historical processes, the article argues that farmers within the urban landscape of Arequipa struggle to reclaim land and water, and reassert a status that they experience to be losing. Such a historical focus on material and organizational infrastructural arrangements, it is argued, can open up for understanding how local and beyond-local processes tangle in complex ways and are productive of new subjectivities; how relations are reconfigured in neoliberal landscapes of progress and dispossession. Such an approach makes evident how state and nonstate actors invest affects, interests, and desires differently within a given landscape.
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Singh, Gulab T., and Harishchandra Sharma. "STATUS OF SELECTED PUBLIC HEALTH FACILITIES IN THANE DISTRICT: A COMPARATIVE STUDY." SCHOLARLY RESEARCH JOURNAL FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES 9, no. 66 (2021): 15607–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.21922/srjis.v9i66.6856.
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The present paper attempts to provide an in-depth insight about the availability and disparity prevailing in health facilities such as availability of beds and doctors per 25000 of the population in different talukas of Thane district of Maharashtra during 2008-09 to 2018-19. The research reveals the presence of huge disparity concerning said infrastructural facilities in the district during the given period. The research analysis indicates that Ulhasnagar taluka in the district had the highest availability of hospital beds per 25000 of the population in government hospitals while Kalyan taluka witnessed the lowest availability. Talking about the doctors' availability in the district, Ulhasnagar and Murbad taluka noted the highest availability while Ambernath witnessed taluka’s lowest availability during the study period. The present study is based on secondary data, collected through various published sources. The data has been analysed using simple statistical tools such as tables and graphs. The average has been calculated to rank the position of the taluka in the availability of selected health infrastructural facilities in the district.
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Puccio, Davide, Antonio Comparetti, Carlo Greco, and Salvatore Raimondi. "Proposal of a Nomenclature for Hydrogeological Instability Risks and Case Studies of Conservative Soil Tillage for Environmental Protection." Land 11, no. 1 (2022): 108. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land11010108.
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In order to implement environmental protection, within the Soil Cadastre, previously proposed as a multipurpose inventory that aims to promote sustainable soil uses, the hydrogeological instability caused by human activities is the focus of this work. These activities can be aimed at sustainable agricultural soil use or the building of roads to allow the access to the fields. The soil’s hydrogeological instability causes the unsustainable use and management of a cadastral parcel. Therefore, the aim of this work is to propose a nomenclature for hydrogeological instability risks, as well as the best practices of conservative soil tillage in case studies, in order to reduce environmental impact. According to the proposed Soil Cadastre, the missing environmental sustainability of a parcel and the reason for this must be communicated to the field owner or manager. In a hilly area of inland Western Sicily, four main risk types of hydrogeological instability were identified: hydrogeological instability (caused only by natural factors); hydraulic-pedological farming instability (crop not suitable for the field for missing or insufficient soil drainage and landslides); hydraulic-infrastructural instability (built up infrastructures unsuitable for the site); hydraulic-infrastructural-pedological-management instability (field improvements changing the downflow line and crop operations not suitable for the soil and climate parameters). The farm owner or manager must be informed about the risk type affecting their fields in order to perform the best practices (i.e., conservative soil tillage), for implementing or restoring a sustainable soil use or management in each cadastral parcel.
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Alka and Anupama Vohra. "Re-reading Holocaust through the Lens of Jewish Poetry." Creative Launcher 10, no. 2 (2025): 239–50. https://doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2025.10.2.27.
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The history of mankind is replete with wars across centuries. A country may win or face defeat, but the environment, not an active participant in the gory war, is always a loser at the end. Besides, human and infrastructural loss, war brings great loss to the environment and ecology. The destruction of ecology and nature represents a threat to the human race. The Holocaust, which took place between 1941 and 1945, was a human catastrophe, an evil committed against humanity in world history. Moving beyond human catastrophe, the connection with the ecological crisis is also traumatic. Against this background, the present paper focuses on the Holocaust poems of three Holocaust poets: Pavel Friedmann’s poem “The Butterfly,” Elie Wiesel’s poem “Never Shall I Forget,” and Eva Pickova’s poem “Fear,” are textually analysed to showcase that the Nazi regime not only tortured and killed the Jews but also brought about barbarianism among others, that is Roma (Gypsies), disabled people, political opponents, homosexuals, Jehovah’s witnesses, etc., who suffered in different concentration camps.
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VASHISHTH, MAYANK. "Applying the Sustainable Marketing Mix to Mahakumbh 2025: Balancing Faith, Ecology, and Economy." INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IN ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT 09, no. 04 (2025): 1–9. https://doi.org/10.55041/ijsrem46584.
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ABSTRACT Religious tourism, particularly large-scale events like Mahakumbh in Prayagraj, presents both opportunities and challenges for sustainable development. Mahakumbh 2025 in Prayagraj is attracting millions of pilgrims, making sustainability a critical concern. This study explores the application of the Sustainable Marketing Mix (4Cs: Customer Solution, Customer Cost, Convenience, and Communication) in the context of Mahakumbh 2025, aiming to balance faith, ecology, and economy. The research examines sustainable solutions offerings such as eco-friendly accommodations, biodegradable materials, and organic food options. It evaluates pricing strategies that encourage responsible consumption while ensuring accessibility for pilgrims of all economic backgrounds. The study also analyses sustainable infrastructural developments (Place) that minimize environmental impact, including waste management, water conservation, and carbon footprint reduction. Additionally, the role of green communication strategies, such as digital campaigns and awareness programs, is assessed in fostering environmentally responsible behaviour among visitors and stakeholders. The findings highlight best practices and policy recommendations to enhance the sustainability of religious tourism through an integrated marketing approach. This research contributes to the growing discourse on sustainable pilgrimage management, offering insights for policymakers, event organizers, and marketers to create a harmonious blend of tradition and sustainability. KEYWORDS: Sustainable Marketing Mix, Religious Tourism, Mahakumbh 2025, Eco-Friendly Pilgrimage, Sustainable Development, Circular Economy
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Lambrou, Nicole. "Resilience Design in Practice: Future Climate Visions from California’s Bay Area." Land 11, no. 10 (2022): 1795. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land11101795.
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This study discusses the implications of resilience design for questions of economic and social resilience, and for equity. Resilience design proposals for California’s Bay Area, resulting from the Resilience by Design project and published in 2017, were evaluated through content analysis and interviews with design teams and plan authors. Findings from the study indicate that these proposals offer visions and strategies for large-scale infrastructural projects that rely on a land-as-ecosystem framing to adapt to extreme weather events, but that they also attempt to direct the impact of these ecological processes on surrounding social systems such as planning processes and landscape regenerations for adaptation purposes. However, findings also indicate that the design process does little to address equity beyond proposing access to those new landscapes and green infrastructure spaces, and to a much lesser degree homeownership and labor models for wealth accumulation. Ecology is consistently deployed in the data analyzed to normalize and propose socio-environmental relationships, implicating questions of equity that are often not addressed. These findings matter for urban design projects and processes that are increasingly pursued by municipalities and public agencies in an effort to secure funding and implement strategies for a climate just future.
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Daher, Rashed. "Beyond Scarcity: An Assessment of Water Management in Egypt from A Political Ecology Perspective." Afrika Tanulmányok / Hungarian Journal of African Studies 16, no. 1 (2022): 21–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.15170/at.2022.16.1.2.
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Water management constitutes a challenge for contemporary Egypt, as the country faces a water shortage that, in certain areas, might endanger the basic needs of people in the dry season. This article seeks to understand the origin of water problems, and argues that beyond existing scarcity due to environmental challenges, current sociopolitical conditions play a significant role. Egypt is socially, economically, and environmentally in a difficult position to be sustainable. The paper utilizes the political ecology approach to shed light on the nexus between the fields mentioned above and tries to create an integrated and comprehensive strategy to analyze the water problems and possible solutions for contemporary Egypt. SWOT analysis helps evaluate the existing conditions (strengths and weaknesses) and potentialities (opportunities and threats) for the Egyptian agriculture and water management sector. Three different angles are utilized during the analysis: the infrastructural background (the economic aspect), the institutional basis (the political aspect), and the international impacts (the environmental aspect) that affect water policy. Regarding the mounting challenges, a slow change of the system is expected, but negative changes in the natural environment could accelerate pressure on Egyptian society and government to adjust. However, the support of international partners to maintain a politically and socially stable Egypt contributes to maintaining archaic political-economic structures that are unsustainable.
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Baker, Kelly K., Sheillah Simiyu, Phylis Busienei, et al. "Protocol for the PATHOME study: a cohort study on urban societal development and the ecology of enteric disease transmission among infants, domestic animals and the environment." BMJ Open 13, no. 11 (2023): e076067. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-076067.
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IntroductionGlobal morbidity from enteric infections and diarrhoea remains high in children in low-income and middle-income countries, despite significant investment over recent decades in health systems and water and sanitation infrastructure. Other types of societal development may be required to reduce disease burden. Ecological research on the influence of household and neighbourhood societal development on pathogen transmission dynamics between humans, animals and the environment could identify more effective strategies for preventing enteric infections.Methods and analysisThe ‘enteric pathome’—that is, the communities of viral, bacterial and parasitic pathogens transmitted from human and animal faeces through the environment is taxonomically complex in high burden settings. This integrated cohort-exposure assessment study leverages natural socioeconomic spectrums of development to study how pathome complexity is influenced by household and neighbourhood infrastructure and hygiene conditions. We are enrolling under 12-month-old children in low-income and middle-income neighbourhoods of two Kenyan cities (Nairobi and Kisumu) into a ‘short-cohort’ study involving repeat testing of child faeces for enteric pathogens. A mid-study exposure assessment documenting infrastructural, behavioural, spatial, climate, environmental and zoonotic factors characterises pathogen exposure pathways in household and neighbourhood settings. These data will be used to inform and validate statistical and agent-based models (ABM) that identify individual or combined intervention strategies for reducing multipathogen transmission between humans, animals and environment in urban Kenya.Ethics and disseminationThe protocols for human subjects’ research were approved by Institutional Review Boards at the University of Iowa (ID-202004606) and AMREF Health Africa (ID-ESRC P887/2020), and a national permit was obtained from the Kenya National Commission for Science Technology and Innovation (ID# P/21/8441). The study was registered on Clinicaltrials.gov (Identifier:NCT05322655) and is in pre-results stage. Protocols for research on animals were approved by the University of Iowa Animal Care and Use Committee (ID 0042302).
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Kosamu, Ishmael Bobby Mphangwe. "Environmental impact assessment application in infrastructural projects in Malawi." Sustainability Science 6, no. 1 (2010): 51–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11625-010-0122-0.
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Reichhardt, Björn. "Mongolia’s Mother Ocean." Inner Asia 27, no. 1 (2025): 139–65. https://doi.org/10.1163/22105018-02701007.
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Abstract This article is concerned with ecologies of transformation, and it investigates how land, growth and pollution interrelate in northern Mongolia’s Khövsgöl Dalai watershed and Khatgal village. In an ecology where socio-ecological ruptures emerged from transformative processes such as infrastructural and industrial development, nature conservation, land privatisation and tourism, politics and human–environment relationships unfolded in ambiguous ways, leading to paradoxical modes of growth. As the only village in northern Mongolia’s Khövsgöl province, and marking the southern entrance to the Khövsgöl Lake National Park (KLNP), Khatgal is a place where the past ten years of intense seasonal tourism have left their mark. I draw on long-term ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Khatgal and recent debates in environmental anthropology to show how varied imaginaries and realities of growth clash and conflate within a land–growth–pollution triad. I argue that land privatisation as a mostly positively envisioned framework for economic growth, security and progress within Mongolia’s post-socialist transformation to neoliberal capitalism had significant social, political and ecological impacts on Khatgal. Under the precursor of nature conservation, Khatgal experienced a particular form of Mongolia’s post-socialist transformation that not only resulted in the abstraction of the Khövsgöl Dalai ecology, but also led to pollution and tense conviviality.
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Prabir, Kumar Kundu. "Impact of Population Growth and Relative Changes in Land Use Pattern: A Case Study of Balurghat Town, West Bengal, India." RESEARCH REVIEW International Journal of Multidisciplinary 3, no. 12 (2018): 820–28. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2529818.
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‘Land use’ means the use of land by human activities. The study of land use is an urgent need for urbanization, resource planning, cultural advancement as well as overall economic development of a nation. The potentiality of a region depends upon the scale of proper use of the land, both in extensive and intensive ways. The extensive use of land reflects such features as sparse population, dispersed settlements, unhealthy living, agro-based economy and poor transport network, while the intensive use of land reflects dense population, vertical expansion of residential complexes, sound agricultural production, industrial establishments, good transport network etc. However, economic and cultural advancement can better be carried out only through the systematic and balanced utilization of land i.e. to correct misuse, under use and over use of land. Thus, planners and developers can’t think of any progress without proper and optimum use of land. Therefore, the land use study has an immense value for human sustenance. The intensity and type of land use decide the quantum and direction of infrastructural and social needs of the area. The fast growth rate of population has shortened the infrastructure as well as it creates heavy pressure on land in Balurghat town since the post-Bangladesh Liberation War. Like such a micro level investigation, the important consequences on land use are due to huge infiltration, unscientific residential development, haphazard urban growth and cropland change. Hence, to regulate the economic activity and to optimize the use of existing infrastructural facilities as well as planning for their expansion to meet its future needs, the only way is to emphasize proper land use to control this current situation in this town. Based on primary and secondary data, the present paper aims to reflect the relative changes in past and present land use and also tries to find out the impact of land cover changes on urban ecology. The major findings of the article reveal that enormous flow of immigrants in the past few decades from erstwhile East Pakistan vis-à-vis shifting of people from vast rural hinterland into Balurghat town are practically responsible for drastic change in land use mosaic.
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Lunyakov, Oleg V. "<i>Information-infrastructural approach to the research of the asymmetric information problem in the credit market</i>." Banking Services, no. 7 (2022): 25–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.36992/2075-1915_2022_7_25.
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Schoulund, Dario Hernan, Carlos Alberto Amura, and Karina Landman. "Integrated Planning: Towards a Mutually Inclusive Approach to Infrastructure Planning and Design." Land 10, no. 12 (2021): 1282. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land10121282.
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Increasingly independent fields of specialization, civil engineering, and urban design find themselves practicing in isolation on the same urban issues. The result surfaces on the relative qualities of public spaces: projects that are functionally successful but spatially poor, and vice versa This is critical in the global south, where infrastructure is prioritized, and politicized, as the key driver of change but often heedless of spatial consequences. The present study explores the dynamics of integration between logics arising from technical and spatial fields, and the planning processes under which such integration is feasible. An urban design/infrastructural project in Argentina, stalled for more than two decades under regulatory policies, was selected as a case study. An overview and background of the adopted planning/design methodologies are followed by a structural/spatial analysis, focusing on type, logistics, and construction on the one hand, and on indicators of successful public spaces on the other: access, uses, comfort and image. Aspects that a priori appeared as inevitable compromises found a common, but the critically logical ground in which urban and structural thinking complemented each other. More than a functional asset, infrastructure presents an opportunity to re-think the future of the built environment as a typology that could be conceived, designed and evaluated, on the same terms as successful public spaces.
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Job, Hubert, Constantin Meyer, Oriana Coronado, et al. "Open Spaces in the European Alps—GIS-Based Analysis and Implications for Spatial Planning from a Transnational Perspective." Land 11, no. 9 (2022): 1605. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land11091605.
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This article presents an open space concept of areas that are kept permanently free from buildings, technical infrastructure, and soil sealing. In the European Alps, space is scarce because of the topography; conflicts often arise between competing land uses such as permanent settlements and commercial activity. However, the presence of open spaces is important for carbon sequestration and the prevention of natural hazards, especially given climate change. A GIS-based analysis was conducted to identify an alpine-wide inventory of large-scale near-natural areas, or simply stated, open spaces. The method used identified the degree of infrastructure development for natural landscape units. Within the Alpine Convention perimeter, near-natural areas (with a degree of infrastructural development of up to 20%) account for a share of 51.5%. Only 14.5% of those areas are highly protected and are mostly located in high altitudes of over 1500 m or 2000 m above sea level. We advocate that the remaining Alpine open spaces must be preserved through the delimitation of more effective protection mechanisms, and green corridors should be safeguarded through spatial planning. To enhance the ecological connectivity of open spaces, there is the need for tailored spatial and sectoral planning strategies to prevent further landscape fragmentation and to coordinate new forms of land use for renewable energy production.
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Rushforth, Richard R., Nicolas P. Zegre, and Benjamin L. Ruddell. "The Three Colorado Rivers: Hydrologic, Infrastructural, and Economic Flows of Water in a Shared River Basin." JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association 58, no. 2 (2022): 269–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.12997.
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GIDRETA, Abdulaziz Dino, Mutlu BİNARK, Gökçe ÖZSU, and Ali ZAIN. "Trusts and Doubts in Africa Over Belt and Road Initiative: A Thematic Content Analysis of Opinions in Ethiopian Twittersphere." Etkileşim 5, no. 9 (2022): 12–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.32739/etkilesim.2022.5.9.153.
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China`s Belt and Road Initiative is a massive infrastructural project that Ethiopia is encompassed. Yet, in Ethiopia, public opinion over the subject has never been homogenous as there are both apparent faiths that the initiative would positively contribute to Ethiopia’s economy, and suspicions that it is merely China`s veiled ambition to accelerate its expansion in global economy and politics, intensifying the concerns that China will not be any different from former colonial powers for African nations. Besides mainstream media coverage, much of the debate over this initiative has increasingly happened on social networking sites as attributable to their relative accessibility and autonomy. By employing a thematic content analysis of Twitter contents generated by opinion technicians during the 2019 Belt and Road Initiative Forum in Beijing, this article examines how opinion technicians over the Ethiopian Twittersphere discuss the initiative.
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Rosasco, Paolo, and Leopoldo Sdino. "The Social Sustainability of the Infrastructures: A Case Study in the Liguria Region." Land 12, no. 2 (2023): 375. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land12020375.
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One of the indicators that measures the economic development of a territory is its infrastructural endowment (road, rail, etc.). The presence of roads, railways, and airports are essential elements in creating the optimal conditions for the establishment or development of productive activities and economic growth; and also to generate benefits. However, the presence of infrastructure can have strong impacts on the environment and the living conditions of the population and infrastructure can be subject to actions related to contrast and opposition. Therefore, in parallel with the economic and environmental sustainability assessment, it is essential to decide whether or not to build new infrastructure. In addition, social sustainability is also pursued on the basis of an assessment that takes into account various aspects that relate the work to the population, also in order to identify the most satisfactory design solution. Alongside the adopted methodology, the assessment must be identified suitable criteria which are capable of taking into account the various impacts generated by the infrastructure, not only of an economic and environmental type, but also social and attributed relative importance (or weight) that is congruous with the correct balance of the three aspects of sustainability. This contribution deals with the identification of criteria for assessing the social sustainability of infrastructure projects, by taking as reference the 24 infrastructure projects in the planning and construction phase in the Liguria Region that make use of the Regional Law n. 39/2007 on the “Regional Strategic Intervention Programs—P.R.I.S.” (Regional Strategic Intervention Programs); which guarantees citizens affected by the infrastructure. In this research work, the selection is performed through the involvement of local stakeholders as well as the subjects and institutions that operate within the decision-making process of a work (designers, technicians from public administrations). The selected criteria are then weighted through the pairwise comparison method used in the multi-criteria technique of ThomasSaaty—Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). The goal is to identify the useful criteria for assessing social sustainability and the weights attributed by the various parties involved in the decision-making process by citizens directly or indirectly affected by the infrastructure.
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Okabe, A., T. Yoshikawa, A. Fujii, and K. Oikawa. "The Statistical Analysis of a Distribution of Activity Points in Relation to Surface-Like Elements." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 20, no. 5 (1988): 609–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a200609.
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The objective of this paper is to formulate a statistical method of testing the hypothesis that the distribution of activity points (such as retail stores) is independent of location of ‘surface-like’ infrastructural elements (such as parks). In order to do this, first, the probability density function of a distance from a random point to the nearest surface-like element is derived. Second, through the use of this function, a measure, R, of spatial dependency on the surface-like elements is defined as the ratio of the average nearest-neighbor distance to the expected average nearest-neighbor distance. This measure is an extension of the ordinary nearest-neighbor distance measure frequently referred to in geography and ecology. Third, the statistical use of measure R is shown. Fourth, as this measure is difficult to compute geometrically, the computational method of calculating the value of R is developed. Last, by use of this method, a test is conducted to decide whether or not the distribution of high-class apartment buildings in Setagaya, Tokyo, is affected by the location of big parks.
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Сорокіна, В. Ю., О. Г. Гайдучок, О. Г. Ісакієва та А. І. Алейнікова. "СУЧАСНІ МЕТОДИ ІНСПЕКЦІЇ МЕРЕЖ ВОДОВІДВЕДЕННЯ". SCIENTIFIC BULLETIN OF CIVIL ENGINEERING 108, № 2 (2022): 73–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.29295/2311-7257-2022-108-2-73-78.
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Underground infrastructural objects such as sewage and water supply networks, which mainly consist of pipes or collectors, are exposed to solid corrosion of concrete and metal, significantly reducing their service life. Today, laser 3D scanning, which allows you to create a three-dimensional map of the pipe's inner surface, is considered one of the promising methods of monitoring sewer networks. Specialists use wheeled robots or aerial platforms with stereo cameras and lasers as devices for laser scanning. The main advantage is that 3D maps can easily detect and quantify structural defects on the pipe's inner surface. Creating a three-dimensional model and its subsequent analysis makes it possible to examine the drainage network in the shortest possible time to find cracks and sealing violations. This model helps to determine the nature of the flow of waste liquids; establish the presence of deposits; assess the degree of wear and corrosion of pipes; insulation condition; integrity and quality of the network after construction or repair. Laser scanning will prevent negative environmental impact, preserve ecology, and not harm the life and health of workers.
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Lema, Abdou Rahim. "Blessing Dams or Crushing Hope? A Theoretical Framework on State Capacity, Regime Types, and Conflict Dynamics over Dam Projects." International Journal of Conflict & Reconciliation 5, no. 1 (2025): 28–49. https://doi.org/10.1353/cfc.2025.a956175.
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Abstract: This paper is part of a broader dissertation project that draws on a rich interdisciplinary perspective on state capacity, contentious politics, political geography, and political ecology to analyze the dynamics of conflict around Chinese-backed hydro-dam projects in Ghana (Bui dam) and Sudan (Merowe dam). A key argument is that, while these mega-projects are textbook examples of state-building efforts, a narrative they have helped reinforce, they also have generated major pushbacks, especially from the project-affected communities and those backing them. This paper proposes a working theoretical framework to help analyze the complexity of the dynamic contentions over these major infrastructural undertakings in Africa. As such, the theoretical model focuses on political regimes and state capacity and how they combine to shape the resulting conflict dynamics over dam building efforts. It specifically argues that different political power structures (regime types) rely on different dimensions of state capacity to deal with development-induced crises such as those arising from dam building, which shapes the dynamics of the resulting conflicts.
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Huang, An, Yueqing Xu, Yibin Zhang, et al. "A Spatial Equilibrium Evaluation of Primary Education Services Based on Living Circle Models: A Case Study within the City of Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province, China." Land 11, no. 11 (2022): 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land11111994.
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Primary education services are a key component of public infrastructure. These services exert significant impacts on public activity, sustainability, and healthy socio-economic development. This research applies the concept of a ‘living circle’ in order to evaluate the spatial equilibrium of education services in existing primary schools. This has enabled equilibrium planning schemes to be proposed for primary schools as well as the promotion and construction of livable and defensible living spaces. This area remains a key issue, however, one that urgently needs to be addressed in terms of the layout of public infrastructural services to facilitate livable living space construction. Thus, from the perspective of livable and defensible living space construction, the aim of this study was to construct a primary education equalization assessment method based on the walking living circle method. An equilibrium index was also designed based on the number of primary school students; this was then combined with the standard construction of new primary schools to optimize the spatial equilibrium of these education services. The city of Zhangjiakou City was then used as a case study; the spatial equilibrium of primary education services was evaluated across four living circle scenarios (i.e., 15 min, 20 min, 25 min, and 30 min). Results reveal that the city of Zhangjiakou currently offers dramatically spatially negative non-equilibrium primary education services (i.e., supply < demand) across four living circle scenarios, but most notably in rural areas away from urban areas and towns, especially in the counties of Shangyi, Chicheng, Chongli, Kangbao, and Guyuan. It is interesting to note that all living circle scenarios could enable positive non-equilibrium primary education services (i.e., supply > demand), mainly within the urban districts of Qiaodong, Xuanhua, Qiaoxi, Wanquan, and Xiahuayuan. It is also clear that equilibrium living circles are distributed across all counties. A spatial optimization proposal for primary school services should therefore be presented that alleviates the issues inherent to non-equilibrium primary education services. The results of this study offer a number of suggestions for education service optimization across the city of Zhangjiakou as well as for other cities in China. We also provide further scientific foundations for research on livable space and defensible unit construction as well as the spatial equilibrium evaluation of other public infrastructural service facilities
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Kochurov, B. I., and M. A. Movchan. "Application of geoinformation modeling and fractal analysis in the geoecological assessment of urban geosystems." Theoretical and Applied Ecology, no. 2 (June 26, 2023): 32–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.25750/1995-4301-2023-2-032-037.
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The article tests modern methods of geo-ecological assessment of settlements, namely GIS modeling and fractal analysis. Recently, they have found wide application in quantifying both the infrastructural components of the urban environment – the street and road network, the density of buildings, the degree of transport accessibility, and the environment-forming ones, such as green zones. GIS modeling methods allow quantifying the distribution density of a certain component of the urban environment or calculating the degree of accessibility in the form of classification and visualizing the results on a spatiotemporal scale in a form convenient for perception. The paper evaluates the parameters of the density of the road network, the density of buildings and the degree of landscaping of the territory according to spectral indices – NDVI and NDBI. Fractal analysis evaluates the range of sustainability of the environment of settlements to factors of anthropogenic load and, thus, areas with varying degrees of severity of anthropogenic impact are identified by the indicator of fractal dimension. The methods of geoinformation modeling and fractal analysis complement each other in geoecological assessment and allow for a more objective assessment of the state of the urban area.
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Cubitt, Sean. "Telecommunication Networks: Economy, Ecology, Rule." Theory, Culture & Society 31, no. 7-8 (2014): 185–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263276413511490.
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This essay deals with technologies, techniques, business models and legal structures governing telecommunications infrastructures. Megacities are especially vulnerable to shifting agencies in telecoms provision. This paper addresses the relation of the economics of growth, built-in obsolescence and product life cycles with the complex determinations of telecommunications governance in relation to the physical environment of megacities. It argues that an ‘environmentalism of the poor’ must be integrated into considerations of both ecological critique and analyses of telecommunications infrastructure and business practice.
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Essien, Etido. "Impacts of Governance toward Sustainable Urbanization in a Midsized City: A Case Study of Uyo, Nigeria." Land 11, no. 1 (2021): 37. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land11010037.
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Urban studies in Nigeria mostly focus on large cities and metropolitan areas, with minimal attention given to sustainable urban development in midsized cities. In this study, we address this knowledge gap and examine the policies and practices driving urban growth in Uyo, a midsized city in Nigeria. Specifically, we evaluate to what extent the prevailing urban governance culture and practices move the city toward or away from being inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable—central tenets of UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 11. This study critically explores the strategic and operational approaches deployed by public stakeholders in pursuit of urban development, housing security, and economic and infrastructure development. We find the lack of continuity in commitment to urban infrastructural development projects and a flawed land tenure system that exacerbates housing insecurity are the two most critical challenges to address in attaining the goals of SDG11 in Uyo. The former calls for better fiscal management and adoption of good governance practices across the administrative hierarchy. The land tenure system can be made equitable and less cumbersome by overhauling the 1999 Land Use Act law of the country. Our findings can inform policies to make midsized cities facing similar challenges more inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable.
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Wei, Yang, Tetsuo Kidokoro, Fumihiko Seta, and Bo Shu. "Spatial-Temporal Assessment of Urban Resilience to Disasters: A Case Study in Chengdu, China." Land 13, no. 4 (2024): 506. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land13040506.
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Urban areas with an imbalanced vulnerability to disasters have garnered attention. Building an urban resilience index helps to develop a progressively favored instrument for tracking progress toward disaster-resilient cities. However, there remains a lack of empirical studies on measuring urban resilience, with limited focus on the spatial-temporal characteristics of urban resilience to disasters, particularly relevant in developing nations like China. Thus, a refined urban resilience index to disasters based on the subcomponents of infrastructure, environment, socio-economy, and institution is suggested in this study. This index-based assessment framework is applied and validated to measure the spatial-temporal resilience using a real-world case study in Chengdu, China. The main findings of this study indicate that: (1) the overall urban resilience of Chengdu has been growing toward better conditions, with infrastructural resilience accounting for the majority of this growth. (2) The distribution of urban resilience exhibits a regional disparity and a spatially polarized pattern. (3) The agglomeration characteristics of urban resilience are significant. (4) There is a clear regional mismatch in the distribution of urban resilience to disaster risk. The validated model offers a comprehensive and replicable approach for urban resilience assessment and planning, especially for disaster-frequent regions.
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van Bohemen, Hein. "Infrastructure, ecology and art." Landscape and Urban Planning 59, no. 4 (2002): 187–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0169-2046(02)00010-5.
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