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   Memorial Parking Trees: Resilient Modular Design with Nature-Based Solutions in Vulnerable Urban Areas

   Volume 10 Issue 3

   Peer-reviewed publication

   March, 2021

   Canada, Chile, Spain, United Kingdom, Greece, Mexico, Panama, Philippines, United States of America, South Africa, Southern Africa

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   Urban Tenure

   geographical information systems

   land-use planning

   sustainable land management

   urban areas

   Nature-based solutions (NbS) include all the landscape’s ecological components that have a function in the natural or urban ecosystem. Memorial Parking Trees (MPTs) are a new variant of a nature-based solution composed of a bioswale and a street tree allocated in the road, occupying a space that is sub-utilised by parked cars. This infill green practice can maximise the use of street trees in secondary streets and have multiple benefits in our communities. Using GIS mapping and methodology can support implementation in vulnerable neighbourhoods.

2. Library Resource

   

   Analysis on the Effect of the Mobility of Combustion Vehicles in the Environment of Cities and the Improvement in Air Pollution in Europe: A Vision for the Awareness of Citizens and Policy Makers

   Volume 10 Issue 2

   Peer-reviewed publication

   February, 2021

   Canada, Colombia, Czech Republic, Spain, France, United Kingdom, Italy, United States of America, South Africa, Southern Africa, Europe

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   environment

   Today, the design and remodeling of urban environments is being sought in order to achieve green, healthy, and sustainable cities. The effect of air pollution in cities due to vehicle combustion gases is an important part of the problem. Due to the indirect effect caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, political powers in Europe have imposed confinement measures for citizens by imposing movement restrictions in large cities. This indirect measure has given us a laboratory to show how the reduction in vehicle circulation affects in a short time the levels of air pollution in cities.

3. Library Resource

   

   Accounting for groundwater in future city visions

   Land Use Policy Volume 69

   Peer-reviewed publication

   December, 2017

   Canada, United Kingdom, United States of America, South Africa, Southern Africa

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   land use

   research

   water

   City planners, urban innovators and researchers are increasingly working on ‘future city’ initiatives to investigate the physical, social and political aspects of harmonized urban living. Despite this, sustainability principles and the importance of urban groundwater are lacking in future city visions. Using London as a case study, the importance of groundwater for cities is highlighted and a range of future city interventions may impact on groundwater are reviewed.

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   Hybrid land tenure administration in Dunoon, South Africa

   Land Use Policy Volume 90

   Peer-reviewed publication

   January, 2020

   French Southern and Antarctic Lands, Central African Republic, Southern Africa, South Africa, United Kingdom

   Indigenous & Community Land Rights

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   land registration

   land use

   land tenure

   research

   Hybrid land tenure administration occurs in a number of South Africa’s state-subsidised housing projects and in the informal settlements from which the housing beneficiaries tend to be drawn. Ownership is the tenure form in most of these housing projects. Under ownership the law only recognises registered land transactions. Non-government tenure administration in Dunoon was organised by street and area committees that are part of the local South African National Civics Association (SANCO) branch, a community based organisation (CBO).