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…)

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…)

Community-based organizations motivated by religious ideology as a driving force behind shaping urban governance: the israeli case

By: Dahan Y.
Published in: Politics, Religion and Ideology
SDGs : SDG 11  |  Units:   | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: This study analyzes and highlights the political culture of community-based organizations (CBOs) as a powerful mechanism (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…)

Tracking pollution and its sources in the catchment-lake system of major waterbodies in Kazakhstan

By: Krupa E., Barinova S., Aubakirova M.
Published in: Lakes and Reservoirs: Research and Management
SDGs : SDG 11  |  Units:   | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: The objective of the present study was to identify the sources and routes of entry of heavy metals and nutrients into se (more…)

Short Ozonation of Lignocellulosic Waste as Energetically Favorable Pretreatment

By: Rosen Y., Mamane H., Gerchman Y.
Published in: Bioenergy Research
SDGs : SDG 11  |  Units:   | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Lignocellulosic waste (here municipal trimmings) is a promising sustainable feedstock for ethanol production, but requir (more…)

Governance relations in small nations: Competition vs. cooperation and the triple role of big cities

By: Beeri I., Magnússon M.Á.S.
Published in: Lex Localis
SDGs : SDG 11  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: This article examines and compares governance relations of big cities in relatively small nation states in Reykjavík, Ic (more…)

A relative radiation normalization method of iss nighttime light images based on pseudo invariant features

By: Wei S., Jiao W., Long T., Liu H., Bi L., Jiang W., Portnov B.A., Liu M.
Published in: Remote Sensing
SDGs : SDG 11  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: The International Space Station (ISS) offers a unique view from space that provides nighttime light (NTL) images of many (more…)