SDG 11:
SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES

Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

University Impact Ranking for SDG 11
U of Haifa 0/100 

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36.1
50.5
66.2
85.8
93.4

SDG11 Highlights

Embroidered on the Body, Exhibition, Batia Shani, handmade sewing, embroidery, Younes & Soraya Nazarian Library, University of Haifa, Art Gallery

Public Engagements

“Embroidered on the body” – Exhibition by Batia Shani in the new art gallery at the Younes & Soraya Nazarian Library

Operations

Arabic Language Course for Academic and Administrative Staff
Figures of the and house on an gray background. real estate, your own home. Affordable housing on credit or mortgage. Renovation and construction. Subsidies, citizenship.

Research

City Officials’ Impact on Affordable Housing

Public Engagements

Cross-Cultural Aspects of Elderly Care
Fashion in History, Cultural Center, Younes and Soraya Nazarian Library, University of Haifa, Gal Gadot, Superwoman

Public Engagements

The Secret Language of Fashion – meeting at the Library Cultural Center
Cable Car, University of Haifa, Sunset

Public Engagements

Visit the University of Haifa Mt. Carmel Campus
Cable Car Express, University of Haifa

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Measuring the effect of plant-community composition on carbon fixation on green roofs

By: Agra H., Klein T., Vasl A., Kadas G., Blaustein L.
Published in: Urban Forestry and Urban Greening
SDGs : SDG 11  |  Units:   | Time: 2017 |  Link
Description: Green roofs provide many ecosystem services such as regulation of building temperatures, reducing urban heat-island effe (more…)

Coresets for differentially private k-means clustering and applications to privacy in mobile sensor networks

By: Feldman D., Xiang C., Zhu R., Rus D.
Published in: Proceedings – 2017 16th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, IPSN 2017
SDGs : SDG 11  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2017 |  Link
Description: Mobile sensor networks are a great source of data. By collecting data with mobile sensor nodes from individuals in a use (more…)

Devising ‘policy packages’ for seismic retrofitting of residences

By: Segal E., Negev M., Feitelson E., Zaychik D.
Published in: Natural Hazards
SDGs : SDG 11  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2017 |  Link
Description: Collapse of residential buildings is the major cause of death during earthquakes. Seismic retrofitting of residential bu (more…)

A new approach to spatial identification of potential health hazards associated with childhood asthma

By: Svechkina A., Portnov B.A.
Published in: Science of the Total Environment
SDGs : SDG 11  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2017 |  Link
Description: Research background Childhood asthma is a chronic disease, known to be linked to prolonged exposure to air pollution. Ho (more…)

How effective is central enforcement? Evidence from convened committees in failing local authorities

By: Reingewertz Y., Beeri I.
Published in: Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space
SDGs : SDG 11  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: The recent economic slowdown has revealed weaknesses in existing fiscal arrangements and led to the reintroduction of en (more…)

Automated and autonomous spatial mobilities: Transport, mobilities and spatial change

By: Kellerman A.
Published in: Automated and Autonomous Spatial Mobilities: Transport, Mobilities and Spatial Change
SDGs : SDG 11  |  Units:   | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: This ground-breaking book explores a rapidly developing aspect of contemporary life: automated and autonomous spatial mo (more…)

Cities under planning siege: The palestinian case

By: Khamaisi R.
Published in: WIT Transactions on the Built Environment
SDGs : SDG 11  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Rapid urbanization and city sprawl are a phenomenon that exists all over the world. Today, the majority of the world’s p (more…)

Cities and nature

By: Broitman D., Czamanski D., Malkinson D.
Published in: International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics
SDGs : SDG 11  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: The world is continuing to urbanize. As a result, most of the interactions between humans and nature take place in citie (more…)

Green roof research towards enhancing urban biodiversity, storm-water retention and air pollution abatement

By: Salman I.N.A., Schindler B., Agra H., Bawab O., Friedman-Heiman A., Kadas G.J., Seifan M., Blaustein L.
Published in: CAB Reviews: Perspectives in Agriculture, Veterinary Science, Nutrition and Natural Resources
SDGs : SDG 11  |  Units:   | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Green roofs provide multiple environmental benefits. These include storm-water retention, water purification, insulation (more…)

From rural-urban gradients to patch – matrix frameworks: Plant diversity patterns in urban landscapes

By: Malkinson D., Kopel D., Wittenberg L.
Published in: Landscape and Urban Planning
SDGs : SDG 11  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Studies have attempted to disentangle the relationships between urban properties and species richness patterns by studyi (more…)

An integrated information lifecycle management framework for exploiting social network data to identify dynamic large crowd concentration events in smart cities applications

By: Kousiouris G., Akbar A., Sancho J., Ta-shma P., Psychas A., Kyriazis D., Varvarigou T.
Published in: Future Generation Computer Systems
SDGs : SDG 11  |  Units:   | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: With the current availability of an extreme diversity of data sources and services, emerging from the Internet of Things (more…)

Illuminating a Risk for Breast Cancer: A Preliminary Ecological Study on the Association Between Streetlight and Breast Cancer

By: Keshet-Sitton A., Or-Chen K., Huber E., Haim A.
Published in: Integrative Cancer Therapies
SDGs : SDG 11  |  Units:   | Time: 2017 |  Link
Description: Artificial light at night (ALAN) for elongating photophase is a new source of pollution. We examined the association bet (more…)

The circles building (Granary) at Tel Bet Yerah (Khirbet el-Kerak): A new synthesis (Excavations of 1945-1946, 2003-2015)

By: Greenberg R., Ashkenazi H., Berger A., Iserlis M., Paz Y., Rotem Y., Shimelmitz R., Tan M., Paz S.
Published in: Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
SDGs : SDG 11  |  Units:   | Time: 2017 |  Link
Description: New excavations conducted in the Circles Building (Granary) at Tel Bet Yerah, first excavated in 1946, form the basis fo (more…)

Heavy metal contamination of soil and tree-ring in urban forest around highway in Shanghai, China

By: Xu J., Jing B., Zhang K., Cui Y., Malkinson D., Kopel D., Song K., Da L.
Published in: Human and Ecological Risk Assessment
SDGs : SDG 11  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2017 |  Link
Description: The heavy metal (HM) pollution of forest soil has been known as one of the most challenging pollution issues due to thei (more…)

Preserving cultural assets of others: Jewish heritage sites in Macedonian cities

By: Petrevska B., Krakover S., Collins-Kreiner N.
Published in: Tourism Geographies
SDGs : SDG 11  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Issues arise when trying to understand the motivation of policymakers to preserve the assets of cultures that do not bel (more…)

Lightweight monitoring of distributed streams

By: Lazerson A., Keren D., Schuster A.
Published in: ACM Transactions on Database Systems
SDGs : SDG 11  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: As data becomes dynamic, large, and distributed, there is increasing demand for what have become known as distributed st (more…)

Ethnic differences behind home price disparities in a Midsize city: The city of Akko, Israel as a case study

By: Kheir N., Portnov B.A., Khamaisi R.
Published in: Journal of Real Estate Literature
SDGs : SDG 11  |  Units:   | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: The study focuses on intra-urban disparities in home prices in the city of Akko in Israel, historically divided into the (more…)

The Ottoman period shipwrecks of akko Harbour, Israel

By: Cvikel D.
Published in: Archaeologia Maritima Mediterranea
SDGs : SDG 11  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: The historic walled port city of Akko, a unesco world heritage site, is located at the north-eastern extremity of Haifa (more…)

A cargo of lead ingots from a shipwreck off Ashkelon, Israel 11th–13th centuries AD

By: Galili E., Rosen B., Arenson S., Nir-El Y., Jacoby D.
Published in: International Journal of Nautical Archaeology
SDGs : SDG 11  |  Units:   | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Shipwreck cargo of lead ingots, some marked, discovered off Tel Ashkelon, weighed about four tonnes. C14 analysis of cha (more…)

Household earthquake preparedness in Serbia: A study of selected municipalities [Pripravljenost gospodinjstev na potrese v Srbiji: Študija izbranih občin]

By: Cvetković V.M., Filipović M., Gačić J., Jakovljević V., Ronan K., Shaw R., Mano R.
Published in: Acta Geographica Slovenica
SDGs : SDG 11  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: This article presents the results of a qualitative study of household earthquake and communitylevel preparedness in Serb (more…)