• Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) expert. (lu.se)
  • Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science combines multidisciplinary studies of climate and environmental change and their interactions with the functioning and distribution of terrestrial ecosystems, biodiversity and ecosystem services, including ecological modelling. (lu.se)
  • The EPIC platform will combine the industrial strength of IBM's 'Smart City' vision and cloud computing infrastructure with the knowledge and expertise of leading European Living Labs' such as Apollon partners IBBT Brussels, ISSY-Media and Manchester to ensure development of a European 'innovation ecosystem' that provides an extensive range of opportunities for sustainable, user-driven web-based services for citizens and businesses. (europa.eu)
  • EC-Earth has a good representation of complex interactions between the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial ecosystems. (lu.se)
  • In ecology, urban ecosystems are considered a ecosystem functional group within the intensive land-use biome. (wikipedia.org)
  • Urban ecology is a relatively new field. (wikipedia.org)
  • Studying urban ecology therefore has the potential to shed light on both sides of the interaction between people and nature. (lu.se)
  • Studying several taxa, and using methods from Ecology, Physiology, Sociology, and Aerosol technology, I aimed to develop a holistic and multifaceted understanding of the urban ecosystem. (lu.se)
  • Yet, as this term has gained popularity, there remains a persistent question of exactly what is and what comprises an entrepreneurial ecosystem. (springer.com)
  • Accordingly, this research is conducted to identify the basic determinants of the performance of MSMEs in Ethiopia and to try to develop an entrepreneurial ecosystem mapping to connect those enterprises with the concerned stakeholders, which can contribute to the improvement of the performance of MSMEs. (springeropen.com)
  • In socioecology, urban areas are considered part of a broader social-ecological system in which urban landscapes and urban human communities interact with other landscape elements. (wikipedia.org)
  • Urban vacancy and land use legacies: A frontier for urban ecological research, design, and planning" is another scholarly article that gives an insight into the future of urban ecological research. (wikipedia.org)
  • It details an important opportunity for the future of urban ecological researchers that only a few researchers have inquired into so far, the utilization of vacant land for the creation of urban ecosystems. (wikipedia.org)
  • But media doesn't build, so we are very happy that we have had both ecological institutes as well as representatives of cities who have started conversation with us. (waterstudio.nl)
  • The article "A Review of Urban Ecosystem Services: Six Key Challenges for Future Research'' addresses the issue of geographical bias. (wikipedia.org)
  • The goal is to create a strong platform and ecosystem for introducing 60GHz Terragraph-certified solutions to the marketplace, and deliver gigabit services to more people, sooner. (nokia.com)
  • These structures can provide important ecosystem services (ES) with a major impact on human well-being. (mdpi.com)
  • EPIC will significantly accelerate the uptake of these new services across Europe by combining the world-leading business expertise of Deloitte Consulting with the practical, first-hand knowledge of ENoLL to create and disseminate a robust roadmap that helps cities upscale from the Living Lab environment to real-life urban deployment. (europa.eu)
  • This process contributes to the adaptation of cities to climate change and reinforces ecosystem services, whilst representing an opportunity to encourage new mediums of citizen participation. (global-ecoforum.org)
  • Social polarisation and spatial segregation dynamics have escalated, strengthening even more the income barrier between the north (exclusive urban services) and the south/ southeast (negative externalities concentration). (uia-initiative.eu)
  • Landscape characterisation using social media photographs from popular platforms has been proposed as a landscape and ecosystem services approach. (degruyter.com)
  • We focus on urban and agricultural systems and mainly study pollinating insects and the ecosystem services they provide, combining traditional field sampling and experiments with citizen science campaigns and historical samples from biological museum specimens. (lu.se)
  • The aim is to contribute to a scientific and evidence-based foundation for the planning of (ecologically) sustainable landscapes and cities where biodiversity of plants and pollinators, as well as important ecosystem services, are maintained. (lu.se)
  • Urbanization has large impacts on human and environmental health, and the study of urban ecosystems has led to proposals for sustainable urban designs and approaches to development of city fringe areas that can help reduce negative impact on surrounding environments and promote human well-being. (wikipedia.org)
  • A poor planned naturalization of urban spaces could jeopardize the resilience of the urban system in terms of water consumption and lead to negative economic, social and environmental impacts. (global-ecoforum.org)
  • With the help of model simulations, we can understand how Sahara solar farms become an additional heat source, how exactly the atmospheric circulation responds to them, how the responses are amplified by ecosystems (vegetation greening/browning) and ocean circulation changes, and how the impacts can propagate globally. (lu.se)
  • 2009), a phenomenon that can cause the death of corals and thereby the collapse of entire ecosystems and has been described as "one of the most striking impacts of climate change that has been observed to date" (Cinner et al. (lu.se)
  • Being crucibles of anthropogenic effects, urban ecosystems offer opportunities to understand how humans impact nature. (lu.se)
  • European cities and policymakers are faced with an increasingly aging urban population (Ageing Europe Eurostat, 2020), challenging them to adapt their urban planning and policymaking strategies to become more age-friendly i.e., tailored to the needs of an older population. (ugent.be)
  • 2, 2020 Asphalt is a near-ubiquitous substance -- it's found in roads, on roofs and in driveways -- but its chemical emissions rarely figure into urban air quality management plans. (sciencedaily.com)
  • More than just a celebration of Melbourne's well-known musical effervescence, Music City Melbourne offers meticulously-researched analyses of the role of public policy, media, social divisions, entrepreneurship and urban planning in the city's rich history of music-making. (bloomsbury.com)
  • Delving into the pleasures and pressures of urban music activities, industries and policies, the authors guide the reader through the city's 'popular music ecosystem' from the 1950s onwards. (bloomsbury.com)
  • In the media sector, IFC supports content production and distribution, and creative digital technologies. (ifc.org)
  • Editors' Note: This is an advance paper for Cape Town 2010, written as an early draft of the content to be discussed at the related sessions on "Megacities" and "Embracing God's Global Urban Mission. (lausanne.org)
  • Forests are vital for the climate, ecosystems, and communities around the world. (fsc.org)
  • Chinh's social media presence including associated blogs and video channels has recorded upward of 400,000 page views. (manthanaward.org)
  • Despite this, they are also taking to the streets in protest, the actors come and go or they occupy the places in which protest movements become audible and visible, with messages, texts, images and videos posted on social media, as well as on mass media. (gfmd.info)
  • Investigating whether digital networks and connected action are place where collective action emerge (Bennett & Segerberg, 2012), and how protest movements use social media and advanced technologies to incite public action in the urban space and also to support causes over time. (gfmd.info)
  • Infrastructure is an encompassing term that can refer to anything from railroad ties to social media to ecosystems, and one which has been enjoying a renaissance in planning and public discourse. (harvard.edu)
  • Follow relevant departments on social media or subscribe to their email lists to stay in the loop about what they're offering this year. (ubc.ca)
  • I'm an NYC-based urban explorer whose social media handle ought to be "boring but exceedingly relevant. (gusto.com)
  • In this thesis, I demonstrate the importance of native vegetation in cities and food quality for urban animals. (lu.se)
  • To this end, the Media, Inequality and Change (MIC) Center - a joint project of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University - along with Media Mobilizing Project and Free Press, have received a $2.6 million collaborative grant from Independence Public Media. (upenn.edu)
  • Ultimately, our aim is to outline a vision for remaking media in ways that reflect communities' information needs, especially around vitally important social issues such as public health, crime, and inequality. (upenn.edu)
  • The Media Architecture Biennale is the world's premier event on media architecture, urban interaction design, and urban informatics. (hva.nl)
  • The Pavilion was the result of a workshop at the Media Architecture Biennale 2014 in Aarhus Denmark. (vvvv.org)
  • A primer on ecosystem problems and opportunities with the stress on new efforts to save endangered species, new efforts to avert global warming and new efforts to preserve and restore to health all ecosystems, including agricultural and urban ones. (evndirect.com)
  • Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) is an increas- are circular because of their 5 and 3 complementary ter- ing health problem in Brazil because of encroachment of mini and complex with a nucleocapsid (N) protein to form sprawling urban, agricultural, and cattle-raising areas into individual L, M, and S nucleocapsids ( 1 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Department of Human Geography , Faculty of Social Sciences and Swedish Institute for Food and Agricultural Economics study human responses to ecosystem and climate changes using agent-based modelling (ABM) techniques. (lu.se)
  • Cities are home to more than half of the world's population, and the number of people living in urban areas is expected to continue to grow in the coming decades. (wikipedia.org)
  • The 60 GHz band allows high-speed broadband connectivity in urban or suburban areas, complementing existing fiber. (nokia.com)
  • Terragraph is designed to help providers deploy fast and reliable connectivity for people in urban areas. (nokia.com)
  • Applications extend from agriculture (both cropland and grassland), over forest ecosystems to urban areas. (hu-berlin.de)
  • The concept idea is that we took park zones in urban areas, we divided them in pieces and put them vertically on top of each other, at the end it became a vertical hangout for wild life! (waterstudio.nl)
  • Access to interactive experiences, 3D drawings, site visits, etc. can now be accessible to schools in densely populated urban areas. (eschoolnews.com)
  • However, the naturalization of cities needs to be planned according to the diverse environmental and social conditions of urban areas. (global-ecoforum.org)
  • Researchers have designed a portable autonomous device capable of collecting and assessing bacterial, viral and fungal biodiversity in the air as well as pollen in different urban areas and seasons. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Jan. 4, 2023 Moderate levels of two outdoor air pollutants, ozone and fine particulate matter, are associated with non-viral asthma attacks in children and adolescents who live in low-income urban areas. (sciencedaily.com)
  • These local differences call for more detailed approaches when studying cities since both social and environmental variation within urban areas can be more consequential than general divides. (lu.se)
  • LUCSUS' expert list for media includes contact details for researchers with expertise in various areas of sustainability. (lu.se)
  • For example, urban areas often have a microclimate that is a bit warmer than the surrounding natural areas, and even a couple of degrees of warmth can allow some vectors and pathogens to flourish. (cdc.gov)
  • Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS), Faculty of Social Sciences, addresses social and environmental sustainability within five main research areas: Climate Change & Resilience, Land Use, Governance and Development, Urban Governance and Transformation, Energy Justice and Sustainability of Energy Systems, and Biodiversity. (lu.se)
  • James Spencer's superb new study points us in a different direction as we struggle to understand the rapid urban transformation sweeping the planet. (rowman.com)
  • Spencer argues that an overly heavy emphasis on the change occurring in such 'global cities' as New York, Tokyo, London, and Shanghai is causing us to miss the most important panorama, the urban transformation of Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. (rowman.com)
  • Moreover, high quantities of low-quality food (e.g., from human sources) do not compensate for the urban birds' dietary deficiency and may instead lead to reduced capacity to mount physiological responses to deal with air pollutants or infections. (lu.se)
  • Expert in: sustainable urban development, climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction. (lu.se)
  • Maes is a multi-media artist who has been studying the tight interactions and co-evolutions within urban ecosystems. (merpaperkunsthalle.org)
  • Specifically, I investigated urban trophic interactions, how air pollution and nutrition may affect animal physiology, and how local wildlife influences children's well- being and perception of nature. (lu.se)
  • In an economic sense, an ecosystem consists of exogenously given components, the environment, and agents acting endogenously together as a system, linked by generating benefits from the interrelationship (Acs et al. (springer.com)
  • 2010). Governance Failure and the World's Urban Water Crises. (lu.se)
  • Governance failure: rethinking the institutional dimensions of urban water supply to poor households. (lu.se)
  • With respect to urban planning, special consideration must be given to such green infrastructure types when implementing measures to maintain and enhance the quality of life. (mdpi.com)
  • Therefore, generating knowledge on the urban ES of differently scaled green infrastructure types is important. (mdpi.com)
  • This systematic literature review provides an overview of existing studies which have explicitly investigated the urban ES of differently spatial-scaled green infrastructure types. (mdpi.com)
  • Compared to other natural and artificial ecosystems human population density is high, and their interaction with the different patch types produces emergent properties and complex feedbacks among ecosystem components. (wikipedia.org)
  • 19). Natural ecosystems can be of any size but usually encompass specific, limited geographic space. (springer.com)
  • This project proposes a new way to look at the interweaving of the natural world and urban life through the use of new media and architecture. (vvvv.org)
  • Urban ecosystems are complex and dynamic systems that encompass a wide range of living and nonliving components. (wikipedia.org)
  • Youth Ki Awaaz, an online and mobile platform is a citizen media initiative for young people to express themselves. (manthanaward.org)
  • With the "right" analytical digital tools and technologies and with the "right" analytical capabilities, this can be employed to gain better insights into current and future urban patterns and citizen behaviors. (ugent.be)
  • MARES project will initiate an urban and economic resilience strategy on employment through social and solidarity economy in key industries to move forward a new model of productive matrix of the city. (uia-initiative.eu)
  • Beginning with the arrival of rock 'n' roll in the 1950s, this book explores the development of different sectors of Melbourne's popular music ecosystem in parallel with broader population, urban planning and media industry changes in the city. (bloomsbury.com)
  • MIC will lead two integrated research projects focused on Philadelphia's local media ecosystem. (upenn.edu)
  • Thus, this issue leads to articles that explore the challenges faced by those who do research in the fields of technological mediations and digital networks related to activism, as well as to collective actions and communicational logics in public space and in media ecosystem. (gfmd.info)
  • Since micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) are a basic source of income and employment opportunities for the least developed countries, more emphasis has recently been given to those enterprises, and a number of research studies have been conducted. (springeropen.com)
  • The development of this new sensor has been carried out by the UPM research group of Bioengineering and Materials (BIO-MAT) in the framework of a joint research program of the Community of Madrid, AIRBIOTA-CM. This consortium aims to improve the biological pollution knowledge of urban air. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Focusing on pop and rock, this is the first book to provide an extensive historical lens of popular music within an urban cultural economy that in turn investigates the contemporary nature and challenges of urban music activities and policy. (bloomsbury.com)
  • This concept that challenges us to realize that in daily life, their similar physical and social ecosystems that make cities more understandable to each other than to their own rural hinterlands. (rowman.com)
  • Cities are the pinnacle of human change to the environment, creating unique types of ecosystems which present many challenges to local organisms: habitat fragmentation, introduced species, and various pollutants. (lu.se)
  • Lack of urban green spaces contribute to a reduction in air/water quality, mental and physical health of residents, energy efficiency, and biodiversity. (wikipedia.org)
  • Related to the dissolution of green space, habitat fragmentation refers to the way in which green spaces get divided by urban development, making it impossible for some species to migrate between. (wikipedia.org)
  • In addition to the connected action and collective action, individual and collective expression in media ecosystems and on public actions in urban spaces. (gfmd.info)
  • The author charts urbanization across the Global South and North, resulting in what he describes as a planetary global urban ecosystem. (rowman.com)
  • Frameworks for urban water sustainability. (lu.se)
  • Milankovitch cycles, solar irradiance, galactic tides, impactors, gamma ray bursts) changed the ecosystems in the geological past and how life adapted to and transformed these ecosystems. (benthamscience.com)
  • The didactic value of fossilized remnants of geological climate indicators and of ecosystem changes (preserved in geotopes) is emphasized. (benthamscience.com)
  • The results suggest that decades of urban rainwater runoff from an upper neighborhood induced large variations of mangrove soil physico-chemical properties compared to a control mangrove site sharing the same geological watershed. (frontiersin.org)
  • MIC's community network analysis will employ a political economic framework that assesses the ownership and control of local media as well as how communities harness media to make positive social change. (upenn.edu)
  • We intend to focus on the key elements that characterize an ecosystem, and hence, untangle under what conditions entrepreneurial firms shape and influence economic, technological, and societal thinking within their ecosystem. (springer.com)
  • The metaphor 'ecosystem' has enjoyed increased popularity in academia, industry, policy, and management as a vehicle to describe, explain, advertise, and convey thoughts, frameworks, and opinions on how economic agents interact with their environment (Acs et al. (springer.com)
  • Encouraging mechanisms for awarenessraising, territorial economic revitalisation and cooperation among agents in order to articulate ecosystems allowing production diversification and more collective possibilities on employment and employability at local level. (uia-initiative.eu)
  • There is inevitably competition for space between mangrove ecosystems and economic and urban development. (frontiersin.org)
  • There are many practices and structures that shape a media ecosystem: decisions about what is newsworthy, how reporters build and prioritize relationships with community organizations, how stories are told and by whom, the ownership and control of newsrooms, and the metrics outlets use to determine a story's value, just to name a few. (upenn.edu)
  • This is how collective mobilizations in public space are often the result of actions undertaken within social networks (calls for demonstrations, denunciations, demands, etc.) and the urban space becomes an organic extension of what is going viral on digital platforms. (gfmd.info)
  • It is therefore interesting to analyze the ongoing transformations that occur during mobilization practices, collective actions modalities, repertoires of action, public actions in the urban space. (gfmd.info)
  • PROGRESS Training courses are educational exchange programs with events designed to provide a networking and exchange experience with European practitioners related to urban green space management. (global-ecoforum.org)
  • In order to provide a picture of what this ecosystem looks like, Spencer devotes four of his seven chapters to a tour of cities that illustrate each of his three types. (rowman.com)
  • Waterstudio: These Sea Trees make sense in a highly dense urban area where water is available. (waterstudio.nl)
  • Moreover, since a majority of the world's population resides in cities today, urban nature has become the most frequently encountered type of nature in everyday life. (lu.se)
  • During the past decade, the world reached the point of becoming more urban than not, as the majority of people on the planet now live not in small towns or villages but in provincial, national, and global cities. (rowman.com)
  • Scholars have long been fascinated by so-called global cities, world cities, and the urban engines of the global economy. (rowman.com)
  • Boston Consulting Group, in partnership with the Centre for Public Impact (a BCG foundation) and the Aspen Institute's Center for Urban Innovation, recently released a handbook-" The Future of U.S. Cities "-that tells stories of city problem solvers, highlights emerging practices from cities, and extracts valuable lessons learned. (bcg.com)
  • The Urbanage project aims to assess the potential benefits, risks and impact of using disruptive technologies for evidence-based decision-making in the field of urban planning for age-friendly cities. (ugent.be)
  • Tapping into both trends, the URBANAGE project was conceived with the intent to enhance data-driven decision-making by policy makers in the field of urban planning of age-friendly cities. (ugent.be)
  • 2) urban birds are constrained by food quality (specific nutrients) during breeding, likely due to low abundances of certain arthropods in cities. (lu.se)
  • Local wildlife influences people and by better understanding the urban ecosystem, we are one step closer to building cities that will allow future generations to learn about species and enjoy nature near their homes. (lu.se)
  • In Tanzania, the urgent need of SDI for urban planning and management, agriculture, mining and disaster management is recognized, and hence the development of a national SDI is highly prioritized by the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Human Settlements Developments, the corresponding ministry in Zanzibar and the Prime Minister's Office of Tanzania. (lu.se)
  • System dynamics (SD) and Agent-based modeling (ABM) are used to model the current and optimal status of SDI development and Multi-objective Optimization are used as a case study to utilize a fully functional SDI in urban land use planning. (lu.se)
  • Freshwater Biology, Special Issue: Multiple Stressors in Freshwater Ecosystems. (lu.se)
  • The report, by Post-Doctoral Researcher Malav Kanuga, analyzes recent trends in community organizing and mobilization in Philadelphia and finds three distinct but overlapping strategies among organizations responding to the interconnected crises of urban violence, policing, criminal justice and issues of housing, education, and work. (upenn.edu)
  • MAB20 is organized by the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and the Urban Interfaces Group at Utrecht University , in collaboration with the Media Architecture Institute . (hva.nl)
  • As the world becomes increasingly urbanized, understanding urban ecosystems and how they function is becoming increasingly important. (wikipedia.org)
  • With local newsroom numbers decimated and the systemic failure of traditional advertising models on full display, MIC hopes to identify new models for media that enables communities to be engaged in shaping and lifting up narratives that better represent them and address important social problems. (upenn.edu)
  • According to our most recent data, over 35% of U.S. adults say that alignment with an ecosystem is at least "somewhat important" when buying a product or service. (civicscience.com)
  • 3 single-stranded, negative-sense segments of RNA known mate and high biodiversity that includes many important as small (S), medium (M), and large (L). These segments zoonoses. (cdc.gov)
  • Fishermen plying European Union waters don't encounter signposts declaring the number of sharks in the sea, the health of deep-sea ecosystems, or the overall state of the fisheries. (saveourseas.com)
  • As per BARC India data, Star Plus remained the most watched channel in the urban market, while the channel climbed to No. 2 position in the combined markets. (bestmediainfo.com)
  • Learn about upcoming media engagement opportunities and find relevant media resources. (fsc.org)
  • The three-year collaborative project with Media Mobilizing Project and Free Press aims to address these issues by understanding how social change happens, the media's role in creating obstacles and opportunities for structural reform, and what innovative, community-centered media and media-making can and should look like in the Philadelphia region. (upenn.edu)
  • Thus, the rise of "entrepreneurial ecosystems" as organized attempts to establish environments that are conducive to increasing the success for newly established ventures. (springer.com)
  • It is expected that the analysis of the collected data can help to develop predictive models in the future for the management of air quality in urban environments. (sciencedaily.com)
  • How can they reverse urban decay while preventing gentrification and rising rents from displacing local communities? (bcg.com)
  • Urban ecosystems rely on large subsidies of imported water, nutrients, food and other resources. (wikipedia.org)
  • Mapping media institutions will be a multi-year, multi-phase study employing mixed methods and resulting in an in-depth, structural analysis of the region's news media. (upenn.edu)
  • During the 20th century the study of cybernetics offered an explanation for ecosystems in nature to achieve stability. (vvvv.org)
  • Traditionally, air sampling for the study of microorganisms is carried out by either filtering the air on a growth medium or filters that are later incubated. (sciencedaily.com)
  • For instance, solar farms in other desert or urban regions, testing different types of solar panels (different albedos), and also using higher-resolution regional models to study more realistic scenarios. (lu.se)
  • The publication of the Conversation article also led to a higher impact of our study, and I received many interview invitations from the media/publishers, such as BBC, Scientific American, and AAAS. (lu.se)