less than 1.5 km. Heat from biogas CHP can be used in combination with a wood-chipheating plantfor heating residential and public buildings in the neighborhood. If the heat output from CHP is used to substitute fossil fuels, then considerable mitigation of environmental impacts can be achieved...
The study of planning and policy-making in rural areas has tended to follow conventional lines of approach until quite recently. Although not atheoretical in nature, there has been a lack of regard to the political processes involved in policy-making and decision-making and a crucial lack of ...
Planning Policy Statement 12: Local Spatial PlanningPlanning Policy Statement 12 (PPS12) explains what local spatial planning is, and how it benefits communities. It also sets out what the key ingredients of local spatial plans are and the key government policies on how they should be prepared....
Local governments’ behaviors have been frequently studied in policy innovation literature. Teets and William (2015) argue that local governments enjoy relatively high levels of autonomy in local policy innovation. Local officials are seen as policy entrepreneurs who have incentives to innovate policies d...
TheAccess to Transit Programwas created in 2014 to leverage RTA and local funds with federal Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program (CMAQ) grant funding to help construct small capital projects that improve accessibility for transit riders across the region. The Access to Transit Pr...
and device drivers for your organization. The process of authoring and distributing this kind of update is called local publishing. Local publishing is best performed by organizations that have dedicated development and testing resources, since the planning, implementation, testing, and deployment of cus...
Nonetheless, some local governments (e.g., Iztapalapa) referred to the use of participatory mapping with local communities and organizations for planning at a neighborhood scale. As for risk mitigation, it was mentioned by only 15% of the local governments. This result may reflect the lack of ...
To assess the program’s impact on the community organizations and local communities, semi-structured interviews were conducted with the leaders of community organizations who partnered with the ACHIEVE program between 2020 and 2022. An interview guide was utilized with questions about the goals of the...
Presently, studies on urban thermal environments commonly use Landsat TM/TIRS or MODIS data for land surface temperature inversion and UHI intensity (UHII) calculations, resulting in the development of heat island mitigation strategies18,20,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31. However, the former is ...
Research on issues such as adapting to rapid environmental change should include indigenous and local people in developing more robust and inclusive diagnoses and responses. Various studies indicate that such projects may face challenges. Researchers tou