Euclidean Distance Mapping and the Proposed Greenway Method in Malta

Ergen, Barış

doi:10.1061/(asce)up.1943-5444.0000163

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“…The beneficiaries of ecosystem services can be single persons, groups, or the society as a whole. All kinds of urban green areas can comprise a green infrastructure contributing to ecosystem services (Elmqvist et al 2013;Ergen 2014;Gómez et al 2004Gómez et al , 2011Naumann et al 2011;Niemelä et al 2010;Tzoulas et al 2007). People can benefit in many ways from more urban nature of different types integrated into a targeted developed urban green infrastructure.…”

Section: Part 3: Functions and Ecosystem Services Of Urban Green Infrmentioning

confidence: 99%

Special Issue on Green Infrastructure for Urban Sustainability

Breuste

Artmann

et al. 2015

J. Urban Plann. Dev.

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Section: Part 3: Functions and Ecosystem Services Of Urban Green Infrmentioning

confidence: 99%

Special Issue on Green Infrastructure for Urban Sustainability

Breuste

Artmann

et al. 2015

J. Urban Plann. Dev.

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“…Euclidean distance serves as a metric to quantify the spatial relationship with bobcat habitats. Typically employed in prior studies to assess habitat isolation [68,69] and ecological importance evaluation [70,71], this metric calculates the shortest straight-line distance between points, providing a straightforward measure of spatial separation [65]. Equation ( 3) is the mathematical representation:…”

Section: Euclidean Distancementioning

confidence: 99%

Managing Landscape Urbanization and Assessing Biodiversity of Wildlife Habitats: A Study of Bobcats in San Jose, California

Zheng,

Wang,

Wang

et al. 2024

Land

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In the rapid process of urbanization, crucial habitats for mid-sized felids such as bobcats are increasingly compromised. This study employs Geographic Information System (GIS) tools and Machine Learning to investigate the subtle impacts of urbanization on bobcat habitats. Focused on the San Jose area, our extensive geospatial analysis has developed a complex ecological model for bobcat habitats. Our findings emphasize the significant influence of factors like vegetation cover, water body distribution, road traffic volume, and intersection density on the suitability of habitats for bobcats. Specifically, we discovered that while vegetation cover typically supports habitat suitability, its proximity to busy roads significantly undermines this advantage, indicating a need for strategic urban planning that incorporates wildlife mobility. By synthesizing natural and urban elements, we offer fresh insights into urban ecosystem management and propose specific conservation tactics: identifying optimal wildlife crossings, integrating corridors with urban infrastructure, and placing fencing and signage strategically to facilitate wildlife movement safely. These measures aim to reduce road-related threats and enhance the integrity of natural habitats, strengthening bobcat conservation efforts. More than its direct implications for bobcat conservation, this study offers actionable insights for urban wildlife conservation and introduces innovative methods for assessing and mitigating the broader ecological impacts of urbanization.

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“…Recently, this notion was re-appropriated and adopted by the landscape painters because it is about a multifunctional notion susceptible not only to improve the living environment of the inhabitants but also to impulse a socioeconomic growth to which aspire the actors of the territory but also of the inhabitants today (Cormier et al, 2009). In general, greenways are regarded as having multiple functions, such as ecologically significant corridors (Ergen, 2013;Linehan, Gross, and Finn, 1995;Miller, Collins, Steiner, and Cook, 1998), recreational places (Tzolova, 1995;Vasconcelos and Pritchard, 2007), and paths with historical or cultural significance (Fábos, 1995;Pena, Abreu, Teles, and Espirito-Santo, 2010).…”

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State of the art of greenway concept application in Tunisian green policy. A case study of an urban landscape in Sousse city

Bousemma¹,

Allouche²,

Saidane³

et al. 2018

International Journal of Environment and Geoinformatics

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This paper is about the concept of the greenways in Tunisia, defined as a structure allowing to connect the green spaces between them. Two steps have been applied to assess the use of greenway concept in Tunisia and especially in Sousse city. The first one shows Tunisian administrative documents recount and the second one explains the spatial distribution of Sousse city greenways using GIS software. The examination of the planning of the green spaces in Tunisia, either through the documents of town planning or through the specific programs, allowed us to reveal the place of this notion in the Tunisian political speech and to conclude that the notion of greenways and its foundations, is missing in the documents of town planning, in the Tunisian environmental policy (Green Plan of Grand Sousse) even if the use of the term "greenways" is not really explicit. Then, it is our belief that there is a great potential in Tunisia for the adoption of greenways as a planning alternative, and tools such as the GIS environment can contribute significantly to this effort.

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Euclidean Distance Mapping and the Proposed Greenway Method in Malta

Cited by 6 publications

References 36 publications

Special Issue on Green Infrastructure for Urban Sustainability

Special Issue on Green Infrastructure for Urban Sustainability

Managing Landscape Urbanization and Assessing Biodiversity of Wildlife Habitats: A Study of Bobcats in San Jose, California

State of the art of greenway concept application in Tunisian green policy. A case study of an urban landscape in Sousse city

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