As urban space continues to expand to accommodate a growing global population, there
remains a real need to quantify and qualify the impacts of urban space on natural processes …

Many animals rely on long-range communication for species recognition, mate selection and
territorial defense, but background noise from the environment can constrain their …

Rurban landscapes describe the transition areas between urban and surrounding rural
environments where city, agriculture, rurality and nature meet. There is a crucial need that …

Supply chain management in urban centers has been receiving increasing attention. The
reason is that freight transport efficiency has improved in recent times and has contributed to …

Urban Ecology: An Introduction seeks to open the reader's mind and eyes to the way in
which nature permeates everyday urban living, and how it has to be understood, cared for …

Since 2018's presidential declaration of Dodoma to be one among cities in Tanzania,
remarkable changes on land use/land cover (LULC) have been experienced over the area …

Nepali government's official delineation of several human settlements as new urban areas
has been questionable because many important criteria such as urban infrastructure and …

In the context of rapid urbanization and limited land amount, it is essential to scientifically
evaluate the urban land green use efficiency (ULGUE) to promote regional sustainable …

Sustainable building performance requires the integration of various metrics such as energy
consumption, thermal comfort levels, occupants' wellbeing, and productivity. Despite their …

The world faces the threat of an energy crisis that is exacerbated by the dominance of fossil
energy sources that negatively impact the sustainability of the earth's ecosystem. Currently …