Water Urbanism and Multifunctional Landscapes

Bansal, Vidhu; Jagadisan, Sharmila; Sen, Joy

doi:10.1002/9781119807216.ch5

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“…Air pollution and energy are other drivers of urban environmental crises (Chien et al, 2022;Zhang et al, 2022;Liu et al, 2015). Bansal et al (2022) and Lawson et al (2021) highlighted linkages between human settlements and water resources. Zaninotto & Dajoz (2022) and Apostolopoulou (2020) highlighted the adverse impacts of urbanization on biodiversity.…”

Section: Impacts Of Urbanization On the Environmentmentioning

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Bring Nature Back to the City; Keep Invasive Species Out

El-Kholei

Abido

2022

Journal of Urban Research

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Cities are the drivers of economic growth but pollute the environment and deplete natural resources. Nature-based Solutions (NbS) and Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) offer many answers to mitigate and adapt to climate change. Without understanding the threats associated with these solutions, bringing nature back to the city might cause undesired side effects such as introducing and proliferating invasive species. Contemporary literature on invasive species evolves from the urban ecology discipline. The paper explores contemporary literature to highlight the gap between ecologists and design professionals. We found that research published between 2017-2021 and indexed on Scopus that dealt with urban issues and invasive species yielded 4,556 publications, of which only 88 publications that design professionals prepared to indicate a gap between urban ecologists and design professionals explaining the persistence of the problem and concerns that ecologists raise. We conducted a bibliometric analysis. Results indicate three clusters: (1) Pressures such as climate change; (2) State urban ecosystems; and (3) Responses in the form of land use plans and urban designs. NbS and EbA are instrumental in responding to climate change. Planners must design and build cities to minimize the adverse effects of urbanization while maximizing the ecological processes by allowing nature conservation actions within urban environments. One of the criteria for evaluating design and planning alternatives is to check for the risk of introducing invasive species. Design experts must be aware of the risks of invasive species, which require research to update present guidelines and introduce the topic in the architectural and planning curricula.

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Bring Nature Back to the City; Keep Invasive Species Out

El-Kholei

Abido

2022

Journal of Urban Research

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“…When people build more houses and roads in a place, they change the land and the living things on it. This can cause problems for the environment, the animals, the plants, and the people who need them [1,2]. One place where this is happening is Bathinda District in Punjab, India.…”

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Predicting Future Land Use Utilizing Economic and Land Surface Parameters with ANN and Markov Chain Models

Rani,

Gupta,

Singh

et al. 2023

Earth

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The main aim of this study is to comprehensively analyze the dynamics of land use and land cover (LULC) changes in the Bathinda region of Punjab, India, encompassing historical, current, and future trends. To forecast future LULC, the Cellular Automaton–Markov Chain (CA) based on artificial neural network (ANN) concepts was used using cartographic variables such as environmental, economic, and cultural. For segmenting LULC, the study used a combination of ML models, such as support vector machine (SVM) and Maximum Likelihood Classifier (MLC). The study is empirical in nature, and it employs quantitative analyses to shed light on LULC variations through time. The result indicates that the barren land is expected to shrink from 55.2 km2 in 1990 to 5.6 km2 in 2050, signifying better land management or increasing human activity. Vegetative expanses, on the other hand, are expected to rise from 81.3 km2 in 1990 to 205.6 km2 in 2050, reflecting a balance between urbanization and ecological conservation. Agricultural fields are expected to increase from 2597.4 km2 in 1990 to 2859.6 km2 in 2020 before stabilizing at 2898.4 km2 in 2050. Water landscapes are expected to shrink from 13.4 km2 in 1990 to 5.6 km2 in 2050, providing possible issues for water resources. Wetland regions are expected to decrease, thus complicating irrigation and groundwater reservoir sustainability. These findings are confirmed by strong statistical indices, with this study’s high kappa coefficients of Kno (0.97), Kstandard (0.95), and Klocation (0.97) indicating a reasonable level of accuracy in CA prediction. From the result of the F1 score, a significant issue was found in MLC for segmenting vegetation, and the issue was resolved in SVM classification. The findings of this study can be used to inform land use policy and plans for sustainable development in the region and beyond.

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Transitioning Urban Agriculture to a Circular Metabolism at a Neighbourhood Level

Jagadisan

Sen

2023

Urban Metabolism and Climate Change

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Water Urbanism and Multifunctional Landscapes

Cited by 5 publications

References 15 publications

Bring Nature Back to the City; Keep Invasive Species Out

Bring Nature Back to the City; Keep Invasive Species Out

Predicting Future Land Use Utilizing Economic and Land Surface Parameters with ANN and Markov Chain Models

Transitioning Urban Agriculture to a Circular Metabolism at a Neighbourhood Level

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