It is no secret to anyone living in Beirut or a similar modern city in a semi-arid tropical country in the summer that their home has become a concrete forest and an urban heat island.
Urban water and energy systems are crucial for sustainably meeting basic service demands in cities.
Land Degradation (LD) in socio-environmental systems negatively impacts sustainable development paths.
Urbanization is transforming human society in many ways.
This article aims to contribute to current discussions about “making cities inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable” (SDG 11) by linking debates that are currently taking place in separate cont
Growing media (substrate) is a fundamental part of a green roof, providing water, nutrients and support to plants.
Assuming communities in a city may formally express their aspirations for the future sustainability of their city, which technological innovations for changing the city's infrastructure and metabolism
Thirty years of public health research have demonstrated that improved indoor environmental quality is associated with better health outcomes.
In the first paper in this Series we assessed theoretical and empirical evidence and concluded that the health of people living in slums is a function not only of poverty but of intimately shared phys
This paper provides a systematic study of the location choice of new polluting firms driven by the 11th Five-Year Plan's water pollution reduction mandates in China.
