The Right to Live Dangerously: Public Perceptions of Extreme Water Events in Urban Areas

Indian mustard plants are the main vegetable crops consumed by urban communities. The need for this vegetable increases along with the increase in culinary tourism in each region and the government's appeal on sustainable food home. One effort made to meet the needs of vegetable mustard in urban areas can be cultivated using polybags. The main problem of vegetable cultivation on polybags is the availability of soil media. To overcome the limitations of soil media it is attempted to substitute it with organic litter enriched with MOL (local microorganisms). The purpose of research is to find the right combination of planting media for mustard plants. The results showed that the composition of K7 = soil: compost: litter of hay: litter of maize (2: 1: 1: 1) best on plant length, number of leaves, length of root leaves and number of roots while the wet weight of mustard plant (g) K7 = soil: compost: litter of maize: litter of corn (2: 1: 1: 1) and K8 = soil: compost: litter of maize: litter of maize: cocopeat (2: 1: 1: 1: 1) or soil: compost + urea. Increased weights of wet mustard by 63% compared to soil media and 20% compared to soil composition: compost + urea. Organic straw in the form of straw: litter of corn stalk: cocopeat enriched with MOL are able to become ready-made planting media on the cultivation of indian mustard plants in polybags.

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Water for Life

10.1093/oso/9780190693152.003.0005 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Madeline Baer

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Citizen Participation ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Water Policy ◽

State Capacity ◽

National Level ◽

Human Right ◽

Political Will ◽

Water And Sanitation ◽

The Right

Chapter 5 provides a case study of the human rights-based approach to water policy through an analysis of the Bolivian government’s attempts to implement the human right to water and sanitation. It explores these efforts at the local and national level, through changes to investments, institutions, and policies. The analysis reveals that while Bolivia meets the minimum standard for the human right to water and sanitation in some urban areas, access to quality water is low in poor and marginalized communities. While the Bolivian government expresses a strong political will for a human rights approach and is increasing state capacity to fulfill rights, the broader criteria for the right to water and sanitation, including citizen participation and democratic decision-making, remain largely unfulfilled. This case suggests political will and state capacity might be necessary but are not sufficient to fulfill the human right to water and sanitation broadly defined.

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The importance of changing urban scenery in the assessment of citizens’ soundscape perception. On the need for different time-related points of view

Noise Mapping ◽

10.1515/noise-2021-0011 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 138-161

Author(s):

Jerónimo Vida Manzano ◽

José Antonio Almagro Pastor ◽

Rafael García Quesada

Keyword(s):

Urban Areas ◽

Noise Exposure ◽

Noise Control ◽

Action Plan ◽

Heavy Traffic ◽

Legal Protection ◽

Complementary Method ◽

Reduction Strategies ◽

The Right ◽

The City

Abstract The city of Granada is experimenting a big urban transformation, attending national and international commitments on clean air, energy efficiency and savings linked to greenhouse gases reduction strategies and sustainable development action plans. This situation constitutes a good scenario for new noise control approaches that take into account the sound variable and citizens empowering in urban design, such as the soundscape assessment of urban territory. In this way, soundscape tools have been used in Granada as a complementary method for environmental noise characterisation where traditional noise control techniques are difficult to be carried out or give limited results. After 2016 strategic noise map and in the preparation of the new noise action plan, the city came across a great acoustic challenge in a new area located outskirts characterised by growing urbanisation, still under development, the greatest legal protection because of sensitive teaching and hospital buildings and the greatest noise exposure from nearby ring-way supporting heavy traffic flow. As quiet urban areas are not characterised by the absence of noise but for the presence of the right noise, this research intended to provide the local administration with results and proposals to transform this conflict area in a pleasant or quiet urban place. Main results came from important and significative differences in morning and evening characterisation, as great differences appear in soundscape assessment over the day and along the soundwalk path, indicating the importance of time and local issues to adequately characterised citizens perception to be considered by administration in the development of strategies and effective noise control actions.

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Demographic, Social, Economic, and Regional Factors Affecting the Diffusion of Hybrid Electric Vehicles in Japan

Energies ◽

10.3390/en14082130 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 14 (8) ◽

pp. 2130

Author(s):

Ken’ichi Matsumoto ◽

Yui Nakamine ◽

Sunyong Eom ◽

Hideki Kato

Keyword(s):

Electric Vehicles ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Carbon Dioxide Emissions ◽

Regional Differences ◽

Fixed Effects ◽

Hybrid Electric Vehicles ◽

Alternative Fuel Vehicles ◽

Factors Affecting ◽

Hybrid Electric ◽

The Right

The transportation sector is a major contributor to carbon dioxide emissions, and the resulting climate change. The diffusion of alternative fuel vehicles, including hybrid electric vehicles (HEV), is an important solution for these issues. This study aimed to evaluate the factors affecting the ownership ratio of HEVs, particularly passenger vehicles, and the regional differences in the purchase of HEVs in Japan. This study performed a fixed-effects regression analysis with panel data for 47 prefectures during the period 2005–2015 to evaluate the factors affecting the HEV ownership ratio and conducted three cluster analyses to investigate the regional differences in diffusion in terms of price categories, body types, and drive systems of HEVs. Some demographic and social factors were found to affect the ownership ratio in Japan, whereas economic factors, including prefecture-level subsidies for purchasing HEVs, were not. Regarding regional differences, prefectures in urban areas with higher income levels tend to purchase more expensive and large-sized HEVs. These results suggest that a strategy to sell the right vehicle to the right person and region is essential for further promoting HEVs in Japan.

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RIGHT OF ACCESS ON UNDERGROUND LAND DEVELOPMENT: GUIDANCE FROM SINGAPORE AND AUSTRALIA

International Journal of Law, Government and Communication ◽

10.35631/ijlgc.5210022 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 5 (21) ◽

pp. 267-276

Author(s):

Najah Inani Abdul Jalil ◽

‘Ain Husna Mohd Arshad

Keyword(s):

Urban Areas ◽

Land Development ◽

The Creation ◽

The Law ◽

The Right ◽

Right Of Access ◽

The Relationship ◽

Land Code

In 1990, the creation of underground land is created in the National Land Code. The scarcity of land especially in urban areas has pushed the traditional horizontal land development into vertical land development. Apart from transportation purposes, it is suitable for recreational, storage, and service utility purposes. Within this development, it attracts questions such as how to reconcile the right of surface and underground landowners as the law has allowed the ownership of underground land to be independent and separate from the surface owner. In governing the relationship between the surface and the underground landowners, the provision of access, support, and protection are regulated under the express condition in the document of title. This paper explores the concept of the right of support in Malaysia and the requirement for its application. This paper uses the doctrinal method where statutory provisions, cases, legal articles are examined. In discussing this topic, the practice in Singapore and Australia is compared, and it is suggested in regulating the relationship between surface and underground landowners, the creation of easement to be adopted with the compensation to be awarded to the burdened land.

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Application of green concept on mixed-use building design

IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science ◽

10.1088/1755-1315/878/1/012008 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 878 (1) ◽

pp. 012008

Author(s):

M D Lubis ◽

H T Fachrudin ◽

F A S Lubis ◽

P W Dari

Keyword(s):

Water Conservation ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Open Space ◽

Green Building ◽

Building Design ◽

Heat Radiation ◽

Land Use Efficiency ◽

Mixed Use ◽

The Right ◽

Space Requirements

Abstract Green concepts are important things to apply on buildings. The application of the green concept on mixed-use buildings must consider several criteria, one of which is the comfort aspect. The density of commercial buildings in Medan City causes a reduction in green open space, and even many buildings do not comply with the minimum green open space requirements on their buildings, which can support the development of this city to reduce environmental temperatures. The aim of this study is to analyze the green concept that can be applied to mixed-use buildings in urban areas. A mixed-use building design with the application of green building principles is the right choice to reduce the effects of climate. The green building concept can help reduce excess heat radiation inside and outside the building. The method used is qualitative with data collection techniques through observation. The analysis was carried out descriptively to obtain a mixed-use building model with the green building concept. The results show that land use efficiency, energy conservation, materials and water conservation can be applied to provide comfortable on buildings.

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Understanding How Behavior Plays a Role in Purchasing Dog Food in Bombay

Advances in Marketing, Customer Relationship Management, and E-Services - Optimizing Millennial Consumer Engagement With Mood Analysis ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-5690-9.ch005 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 98-117

Author(s):

Niaga Rajesh ◽

Paavni Varma

Keyword(s):

Urban Areas ◽

Research Paper ◽

Purchase Behavior ◽

Upper Class ◽

Dog Food ◽

The Right ◽

The City ◽

Depth Interviews ◽

Mumbai City ◽

Food Consumed

It has been noticed that there has been an increase in the number of families adopting dogs as pets in the urban areas on India. Dogs among all other pets are considered the most loyal and unconditionally loving animals. However, maintaining a dog is not as simple as it may seem. One of the most important factors that contribute to the wellbeing of a dog is the nutritious food consumed by the dog. This research paper aims to understand the behavior that influences the purchase of dog food in Mumbai city. The goal is to comprehend the preferences and the buying pattern of dog food consumed in Mumbai. To undertake this research, 15 in-depth interviews were conducted, of people who own dogs; belong to the middle and upper-class families in the city of Mumbai. Dog owners indulge in a lot of reading and research to make sure that they give the right form of nutrition to their dogs. This research threw light on the purchase behavior of dog food consumed in Mumbai.

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Right to Sanitation in Urban Areas

The Right to Sanitation in India ◽

10.1093/oso/9780199489855.003.0008 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 195-227

Author(s):

Mathew John

Keyword(s):

Urban Areas ◽

Legal Framework ◽

Fundamental Change ◽

Human Right ◽

Urban Sanitation ◽

Effective Delivery ◽

Administrative Framework ◽

Policy Direction ◽

The Right ◽

Water Boards

This chapter looks at the emergence of the right to sanitation as a problem for public administration. Although sanitation has been articulated in terms of a human right, it is often unclear what this means for policy direction in relation to its administration and delivery. Indeed, it is even unclear whether there should be any fundamental change in administrative framework at all for the more effective delivery of urban sanitation. In this context this chapter recounts and critically analyses the legal framework (centred on water boards and urban local bodies) that delivers urban sanitation and the forms in which the various players are brought to account through courts and other forms of administrative regulation. Set against this background this chapter assess the connections between forms of governance and regulation, and their impact on the delivery of sanitation as a basic human right.

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Multifunctional Interactive Furniture for Smart Cities

Proceedings ◽

10.3390/proceedings2191212 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 2 (19) ◽

pp. 1212 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Oihane Gómez-Carmona ◽

Diego Casado-Mansilla ◽

Diego López-de-Ipiña

Keyword(s):

Information Exchange ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Ad Hoc ◽

Smart Cities ◽

Sustainable Use ◽

Multimodal Interaction ◽

Central Element ◽

Management Tool ◽

Set Up ◽

The Right

The adaptation of cities to a future in which connectivity is at the service of the citizens will be a reality by creating interaction spaces and augmented urban areas. The research on this field falls within the scope of Smart Cities (SC) with the advantages that the common public spaces provide as new points for information exchange between the city, the urban furniture and their citizens. Kiosk systems have been recognized as an appropriate mean for providing event-aware and localized information to the right audience at the right time. Hence, in this article, we provide a vision of an eco-system of multifunctional urban furniture, where kiosks are part of them, designed not only for digital interaction but for sustainable use and symbolic integration into the urban environment as well. The proposed approach is conceived to drive services through digital urban nodes that facilitate tailored citizen-city communication and interaction. The central element of the designed platform consists on an intelligent digital kiosk which features a series of hardware and software components for sensing different environmental conditions, multimodal interaction with users and for conveying the captured data to the Cloud. The custom-based contents visualized to the users are controlled remotely through a management tool that allows to set-up and configure the digital kiosk. This system is not presented as an ad-hoc solution for one specific purpose but instead, it becomes a platform that can accommodate and solve the needs of every kind of user that populates urban shared-use spaces.

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Urban Vegetation Types are Not Perceived Equally in Providing Ecosystem Services and Disservices

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12052076 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (5) ◽

pp. 2076 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Zuzana Drillet ◽

Tze Fung ◽

Rachel Leong ◽

Uma Sachidhanandam ◽

Peter Edwards ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Ecosystem Services ◽

Air Quality ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Online Survey ◽

Secondary Forest ◽

Public Perceptions ◽

Urban Vegetation ◽

Vegetation Types ◽

Regulating Services ◽

Planning And Management

Urban vegetation is important in providing ecosystem services to people. Different urban vegetation types provide contrasting suites of ecosystem services and disservices. Understanding public perceptions of the ecosystem services and disservices can therefore play an important role in shaping the planning and management of urban areas. We conducted an online survey (n = 1000) to understand how residents in the tropical city of Singapore perceived urban vegetation and the associated ecosystem services and disservices. The questionnaire was designed to explore whether different urban vegetation types (grass, shrubs, trees, trees over shrubs, and secondary forest) were perceived as equal in providing benefits. Respondents considered ecosystem services provided by urban vegetation to be more important than disservices. Among ecosystem services, regulating services were most highly rated, with more than 80% of the respondents appreciating urban vegetation for providing shade and improving air quality. Respondents recognized that different vegetation types provided different ecosystem services. For example, secondary forest was most commonly associated with education and wildlife, while trees were strongly associated with cooling and air quality. We conclude that in developing plans and designs for urban vegetation and ecosystem services, it is important to understand the perceptions, priorities, and concerns of residents.

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