Mode interactions in a three-layered slab waveguide with periodic structures

Bibi, Aysha; Fan, Ya-Xian; Jiang, Nan

doi:10.1117/12.2500883

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“…Promoting the UCI effect is key in developing sustainable, resilient, and adaptive urban ecosystems (Kong et al, 2014a;Yu et al, 2021;Çevik Degȇrli and Çetin, 2022). Blue-green spaces in cities serve as efficient heat regulation mechanisms, improving the urban thermal environment and thereby mitigating the urban heat island effect.…”

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Nature-based Solutions for Urban Resilience and Human Health

2024

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Climate change and rapid urbanization have significant impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services. Nature-based solutions (NBS) is an action to work with and enhance nature to solve social challenges, and NBS is an "umbrella concept" for other mature nature-based approaches. Blue-green spaces (BGS) can provide a wide range of ecosystem services, including mitigation of urban heat island effects, reduction of flooding, mitigation of air pollution, and provision of recreational spaces, thereby promoting physical and mental health. Hence, NBSs can serve as cost-effective climate mitigation and adaptation tool that contribute to additional co-benefits for ecosystem health and human well-being. Environmentalists, epidemiologists, ecologists, urban planners, and policymakers have paid more attention to NBSs for urban resilience and human health. In this Research Topic, we hope to discuss these topics: (1) ecological exposure and health benefits; (2) climate adaptation and human health promotion possibilities by NBSs; (3) methodological and theoretical approaches as well as technologies of NBSs corresponding to urban resilience; (4) underlying pathways and potential mechanisms of NBSs in improving human health; and (5) policies and management for planning and design of the successful implementation of NBSs in relation to urban resilience and human health. This Research Topic focuses on, but is not restricted to the following issues: • Nature-based interventions for climate adaptation. • Ecological exposure and physical and psychological health outcomes. • Climate adaption environmental policies and management.

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Nature-based Solutions for Urban Resilience and Human Health

2024

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“…Notably, the MSPA method can only identify patches and corridors with ecological protection significance using land use raster data (Julien Carlier, 2019). According to morphology, spatial pattern, impact on the overall landscape connectivity, and other factors, the ecological land raster data is divided into seven non-overlapping landscape types (Nan-nan et al, 2021). The ecological core and bridging areas have high ecological connectivity and can protect regional biological diversity.…”

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Boundary green infrastructure: a green infrastructure connecting natural and artificial spaces

Yuan,

Wu,

Liu

et al. 2023

Front. Environ. Sci.

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As a naturally-based solution (NBS), green infrastructural network constructing can improve urban ecological resilience and support sustainable urban development. However, as the Frontier of urban expansion, the boundary of built-up areas has little research on the boundary green infrastructure (BGI) connecting natural and artificial spaces. In order to make up for the shortcomings of relevant research, we propose a method for identifying BGI and analyze its landscape pattern characteristics. We selected 15 European cities as cases to extract the boundaries of built-up areas. Moreover, we used morphological pattern analysis (MSPA) to identify the ecological source and select the best distance threshold for the landscape connectivity model to identify the BGI range. Through the gradient area method and MSPA, the BGI landscape pattern characteristics of the case cities were analyzed quantitatively. The BGI scale was affected by the area of the built-up area and the threshold of GI landscape connectivity distance. Additionally, the BGI space contained a small number of large ecological sources and many scattered and small fragmented patches. The best landscape model of BGI was the surrounding pattern, followed by the aggregation pattern, which had good landscape connectivity; however, the fragmentation of the scattered pattern was high. Lastly, the ecological core area in BGI was the main landscape type; it has a high landscape connection function for the GI network inside and outside the built-up area and promotes biological exchange inside and outside the built-up area. This study proves that BGI has an important ecological significance, can guarantee the scientific nature of the NBS method, and ensures the ecological security pattern of cities.

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Mode interactions in a three-layered slab waveguide with periodic structures

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References 27 publications

Nature-based Solutions for Urban Resilience and Human Health

Nature-based Solutions for Urban Resilience and Human Health

Boundary green infrastructure: a green infrastructure connecting natural and artificial spaces

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