This document provides a summary of the Cities and Biodiversity Outlook, which will assess the links between urbanization, biodiversity, and ecosystem services. It will analyze how urban expansion impacts biodiversity and provide solutions for integrating urban biodiversity and ecosystems. Key messages will address how urban green spaces can help reduce carbon emissions, ensure food security, and improve human health. The assessment will be published in 2013 and aim to inform parties at the COP11 conference on incorporating biodiversity into urban planning.
Urban Current Issues and Approaches slides for Sustainable Urban Landscape Design course.
Master Sustainable Urban Design, Razak Faculty, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia.
A presentation on "Evolution of town, cities and urban: A world perspective, by Rajendra P Sharma, Social Anthropologist and Planner, Kathmandu, Nepal can be reached at rpsharma@mailcity.com
London's Green Spaces. Pocket Parks: The Design Challenge.marcusshields
Open space within the city of London is limited. Consequently, the existing policy framework aims to provide access to high quality open space dispersed throughout the city with important initiatives such as the Greater London Authorities 100 Pocket Parks programme. This presentation reviews the type and scale of London’s green spaces, then moves on to discuss how we can make the most of our small-scale local community green spaces, or pocket parks.
ULSOOR - DETERMINATION OF CITY (KEVIN LYNCH ANALYSIS)Divya Suresh
ULSOOR - DETERMINATION OF CITY (KEVIN LYNCH ANALYSIS)
Ulsoor, or Halasuru, is one of the oldest neighbourhoods in the city of Bangalore. It is located in central Bangalore, and begins roughly near the eastern terminus of MG Road. It is renowned for its numerous temples and rather narrow streets.
Ulsoor, or Halasuru, is one of the oldest neighbourhoods in the city of Bangalore. It is located in central Bangalore, and begins roughly near the eastern terminus of MG Road. It is renowned for its numerous temples and rather narrow streets.
Urban design is concerned with the arrangement, appearance and function of our suburbs, towns and cities. It is both a process and an outcome of creating localities in which people live, engage with each other, and engage with the physical place around them.
Urban Current Issues and Approaches slides for Sustainable Urban Landscape Design course.
Master Sustainable Urban Design, Razak Faculty, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia.
A presentation on "Evolution of town, cities and urban: A world perspective, by Rajendra P Sharma, Social Anthropologist and Planner, Kathmandu, Nepal can be reached at rpsharma@mailcity.com
London's Green Spaces. Pocket Parks: The Design Challenge.marcusshields
Open space within the city of London is limited. Consequently, the existing policy framework aims to provide access to high quality open space dispersed throughout the city with important initiatives such as the Greater London Authorities 100 Pocket Parks programme. This presentation reviews the type and scale of London’s green spaces, then moves on to discuss how we can make the most of our small-scale local community green spaces, or pocket parks.
ULSOOR - DETERMINATION OF CITY (KEVIN LYNCH ANALYSIS)Divya Suresh
ULSOOR - DETERMINATION OF CITY (KEVIN LYNCH ANALYSIS)
Ulsoor, or Halasuru, is one of the oldest neighbourhoods in the city of Bangalore. It is located in central Bangalore, and begins roughly near the eastern terminus of MG Road. It is renowned for its numerous temples and rather narrow streets.
Ulsoor, or Halasuru, is one of the oldest neighbourhoods in the city of Bangalore. It is located in central Bangalore, and begins roughly near the eastern terminus of MG Road. It is renowned for its numerous temples and rather narrow streets.
Urban design is concerned with the arrangement, appearance and function of our suburbs, towns and cities. It is both a process and an outcome of creating localities in which people live, engage with each other, and engage with the physical place around them.
Heritage remains most valuable asset inherited by human beings and communities from nature and society. Known as built and natural , heritage needs to be preserved, conserved, valued and promoted. Promoting heritage needs understanding of its origin, fabric, structure and the context. Considering the same it needs to be protected with appropriate sensitivity and understanding. Heritage hold enormous potential in leveraging, economy, generating employment, reducing poverty and making society culturally rich and vibrant. Unfortune heritage in India is not valued and is grossly misused, abused, manipulated and commercialized. Manpower remains low and the capacity , capability and willingness to identify, manage and promote remains marginalised. India , as a nation, house enormous wealth of heritage with history spanning over 5,000 years need to identify and create capacity to preserve, promote and make value addition to its valuable heritage. It will help in not only creating awareness but will also help in promoting environment and ecology
Evolution of human settlement - 01 : Understanding the History!Zee Ehtram
This presentation is intended for students of Architectural History.
In geography, statistics and archaeology, a settlement, locality or populated place is a community in which people live. The complexity of a settlement can range from a small number of dwellings grouped together to the largest of cities with surrounding urbanized areas. Here is an attempt to undestand how early human settlemets evolved with time. Tis presentation is Part-1 of 7.
Strategies for Promoting Urban SustainabilityJIT KUMAR GUPTA
Presentation looks at the options of making urban areas more liveable, productive and sustainable. It includes the reduction of energy consumption through green buildings and green transport
At the Little Rann of Kutch, salt production generates much higher economic value (Rs 694 million) than tourism (Rs 276 million) or biodiversity (Rs 136 million) but it’s also more damaging to the ecology. Tourism will help conserve biodiversity because most tourists come for the birds but they have less economic values and hence lesser attention.
Cities and Biodiversity Outlook - presented to Central Valley Café ScientifiqueMadhusudan Katti
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Heritage remains most valuable asset inherited by human beings and communities from nature and society. Known as built and natural , heritage needs to be preserved, conserved, valued and promoted. Promoting heritage needs understanding of its origin, fabric, structure and the context. Considering the same it needs to be protected with appropriate sensitivity and understanding. Heritage hold enormous potential in leveraging, economy, generating employment, reducing poverty and making society culturally rich and vibrant. Unfortune heritage in India is not valued and is grossly misused, abused, manipulated and commercialized. Manpower remains low and the capacity , capability and willingness to identify, manage and promote remains marginalised. India , as a nation, house enormous wealth of heritage with history spanning over 5,000 years need to identify and create capacity to preserve, promote and make value addition to its valuable heritage. It will help in not only creating awareness but will also help in promoting environment and ecology
Evolution of human settlement - 01 : Understanding the History!Zee Ehtram
This presentation is intended for students of Architectural History.
In geography, statistics and archaeology, a settlement, locality or populated place is a community in which people live. The complexity of a settlement can range from a small number of dwellings grouped together to the largest of cities with surrounding urbanized areas. Here is an attempt to undestand how early human settlemets evolved with time. Tis presentation is Part-1 of 7.
Strategies for Promoting Urban SustainabilityJIT KUMAR GUPTA
Presentation looks at the options of making urban areas more liveable, productive and sustainable. It includes the reduction of energy consumption through green buildings and green transport
At the Little Rann of Kutch, salt production generates much higher economic value (Rs 694 million) than tourism (Rs 276 million) or biodiversity (Rs 136 million) but it’s also more damaging to the ecology. Tourism will help conserve biodiversity because most tourists come for the birds but they have less economic values and hence lesser attention.
Cities and Biodiversity Outlook - presented to Central Valley Café ScientifiqueMadhusudan Katti
Slides from a presentation of the UN Converntion on Biodiversity commissioned Cities and Biodiversity Outlook. Madhusudan Katti, one of the lead authors of the CBO, presented this to the Central Valley Café Scientifíque, on 3 December 2012, in Fresno, California.
Presentation given by Jim Smyllie, Natural England's Executive Director of People, Landscape and Biodiversity at the Protecting and Enhancing the Urban and Natural Environment event in London on Tuesday 12th November 2013.
Presentation by Patrick ten Brink of IEEP on Health and Social Benefits of Nature and Biodiversity Protection at the BfN/ENCA conference in Bonn. 29 June 2017
A planet and its people under pressure: why cities matterBe2camp Admin
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International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) is an open access online peer reviewed international journal that publishes research and review articles in the fields of Computer Science, Neural Networks, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Plastic Engineering, Food Technology, Textile Engineering, Nano Technology & science, Power Electronics, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Computational mathematics, Image processing, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, VLSI Testing & Low Power VLSI Design etc.
Presentation at the ESPP conference Phosphorus stewardship in industrial applications, Brussels, 01-12-2016
European Sustainable Phosphorus Platform (ESPP)
www.phosphorusplatform.eu
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Austria AT
Belgium BE
Bulgaria BG
Cyprus CY
Czech Republic CZ
Germany DE
Denmark DK
Estonia EE
Spain ES
Finland FI
France FR
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Hungary HU
Ireland IE
Italy IT
Lithuania LT
Luxembourg LU
Latvia LV
Malta MT
Netherlands NL
Poland PL
Portugal PT
Romania RO
Sweden SE
Slovenia SI
Slovakia SK
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Switzerland CH
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Exploring the production capacity of rooftop gardens (RTGs) in urban agricult...Marco Garoffolo
Exploring the production capacity of rooftop gardens (RTGs)
in urban agriculture: the potential impact on food and nutrition
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in the city of Bologna
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Chiara Piovene & Stefano Draghetti & Solange Ramazzotti &
Giovanni Bazzocchi & Giorgio Gianquinto
Saving the Wild - 21st Century Imperatives, by Dr. Jane SmartWILD Foundation
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Creating landscapes with healthy, functioning
ecosystems is not only key to making progress towards
the environmental targets embedded in the Sustainable
Development Goals, but also to addressing multiple
social and economic targets that depend partly or wholly
on the benefits that ecosystems provide to people.
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Achieving Clean Bus Fleets: International Seminar
Ecomobility Festival, Johannesburg
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Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
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JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
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But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
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And...
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2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
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Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
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Cities and Biodiversity Outlook - A Global Assessment of the Links Between Urbanisation, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services - Elmqvist
1. CITIES AND BIODIVERSITY OUTLOOK
- A global assessment of the links between urbanisation, biodiversity and ecosystem services
2. “…to prepare an assessment of the links and opportunities
between urbanization and biodiversity (…) based on the third
edition of the Global Biodiversity Outlook...”
Conference of the Parties, 10th meeting
Nagoya, Japan, October 2010
3. Mission:
Serve as the first global synthesis on how urbanization
impacts biodiversity and ecosystem change
What it will do:
Provide an overview, analysis and response to knowledge
gaps on effects of urbanization on social-ecological
systems and human well-being
Focus on solutions:
Address how urban biodiversity and ecosystems can be
used, restored and created and how cities can contribute to
generate multiple ecosystem services
4. Preview - Urban expansion - 2050
Urban expansion during the next 40 years will consume land approx. three times the size of
France – often prime agricultural land - with knock-on effects on biodiversity and ecosystems
on a global scale
NASA 2012
5. Preview
Protected areas
Today 25% of the world’s protected areas are within 17 km of an urban
area - in 10 years 15 km
Cities can often be rich in biodiversity
Cities may be rich in biodiversity and a remarkable amount of native
species diversity is known to exist in and around large cities, such as
Singapore, Rio de Janeiro, Chicago, Berlin and Stockholm
Urbanization and forest cover
Urbanization in some areas results in reduced pressure on land and
considerable regrowth of forest and increase in biodiversity
CBO 2013
6. I. CBO-Action and Policy
• Solution oriented, rich in examples - 60-70 pages
• Organized around 10 key messages
• Authors: experts at UN-organizations, scientists,
• Reviewed by repr for local authorities
• To be launched at COP11 in Hyderabad October 15, 2012.
II. CBO-Scientific Assessment
• 13 chapters written by more than 50 authors (scientists)
• Covering biodiversity trends, ecosystem services, climate change, food and
water, scenarios of urbanization, governance, learning
• Extensive scientific peer-review
• Published by Springer (open access e-book + print on demand) spring 2013
8. Challenges – 1 key message
Opportunities – 9 key messages
Climate change adaptation
Food and water security
Health
Building community resilience
Reducing urban footprints
9. Key Message:
Incorporating biodiversity and ecosystems in urban
planning and design help reduce carbon emissions and
enhance adaptation to climate changes
16. Urban Vertical Farming
• Reduce use of fossil fuel (production
and transport)
• Crop production possible during most of
the year, low losses due to wheather
• Re-use of water - eliminates
agricultural runoff (world’s greatest
source of pollution)
• Reduce pesticide use
• Energy generated through methane
production
• Return farmland in some areas to
generate multiple ecosystem services
18. Urban and peri-urban farming
Dakar - 60% of Senegal’s total production of vegetables and
65% of total production of chicken
(Mbaye and Moustier 1999)
20. Green areas and health
• Perceived health, mortality, green space (N = 250 782).
• The percentage of green space inside a three km radius from home had a
significant positive relation to perceived general health
Maas J, Verheij RA, Groenewegen PP, et al. 2006.
Green space, urbanity, and health: how strong is the relation? Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 60(7)
21. Green areas and health
An observational population study of the
population of England younger than retirement
age (N= 40 813 236).
A significant association between residence in
the most green areas and decreased rates for
all-cause and circulatory mortality in 2001-
2005 (366 348 deaths) with control for
potential confounding factors.
Mitchell R, Popham F 2008.
Effect of exposure to natural environment on health inequalities: an
observational population study. Lancet 372(9650): 1655-1660.
22. Green areas and health
• A type of gammaproteobacteria – Acinetobacter - strongly linked to the
development of anti-inflammatory molecules
• The more gammaproteobacteria on the skin the larger immunological
responses which are known to suppress inflammatory responses
• Gammaproteobacteria more prevalent in vegetation such as forests and
grasslands, rare in built-up areas
Hanski et al 2012. Environmental biodiversity, human microbiota, and allergy are interrelated. PNAS vol. 109 no. 21 8334-8339
23. Solutions
• Establish urban parks and outdoor gyms, paths,
trails, etc
• Encourage planting of trees, urban reforestation
and urban farming
• Design and locate community facilities that use
the benefits of nature as a setting for other
activities, such as healing and wellness (hospitals,
elderly, or disabled care) and learning (schools,
childcare facilities) etc.
24. Tools - examples
• Local Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plans
(LBSAPS) - CBD
• Cities Biodiversity Index (CBI) – CBD, IUCN, ICLEI
• TEEB for cities
• URBIS – Urban Biosphere Initiative, ICLEI-IUCN-
UNESCO- CBD
• Local Action for Biodiversity – ICLEI-IUCN-CBD