Urban Impervious Surface Extraction Based on Deep Convolutional Networks Using Intensity, Polarimetric Scattering and Interferometric Coherence Information from Sentinel-1 SAR Imag... by Wenfu Wu, Songjing Guo, Zhenfeng Shao, Deren Li

“…Urban impervious surface area is a key indicator for measuring the degree of urban development and the quality of an urban ecological environment. However, optical satellites struggle to effectively play a monitoring role in the tropical and subtropical regions, where there are many clouds and rain all year round. …”
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The Trade-Offs between Supply and Demand Dynamics of Ecosystem Services in the Bay Areas of Metropolitan Regions: A Case Study in Quanzhou, China by Wei Shui, Kexin Wu, Yong Du, Haifeng Yang

“…This is conducive to the improvement and establishment of urban ecological security research systems, especially in bay areas that are lacking research.…”
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Spatiotemporal changes of the habitat quality and the human activity intensity and their correlation in mountainous cities by Huiqing Han, Yingjia Zhang, Yue Liu, Xin Yu, Junwen Wang

“… As the urbanization is being rapidly boosted, the urban habitat quality has been significantly disturbed by human activities through land use, which highly affects the urban ecological environment and sustainable development of social economy. …”
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Scenario Analysis for Resilient Urban Green Infrastructure by Bo Li, Yue Wang, Tong Wang, Xiaoman He, Jan K. Kazak

“…The results of this study provide an empirical foundation for formulating policies and the methods of this study can be applied to urban ecological planning and green infrastructure management practice in other areas as well.…”
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Very High Resolution Images and Superpixel-Enhanced Deep Neural Forest Promote Urban Tree Canopy Detection by Yang Liu, Huaiqing Zhang, Zeyu Cui, Kexin Lei, Yuanqing Zuo, Jiansen Wang, Xingtao Hu, Hanqing Qiu

“…Urban tree canopy (UTC) area is an important index for evaluating the urban ecological environment; the very high resolution (VHR) images are essential for improving urban tree canopy survey efficiency. …”
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Surveying the Environmental Footprint of Urban Food Consumption by Goldstein, Benjamin, Birkved, Morten, Fernandez, John, Hauschild, Michael

“…This article reviews 43 UM assessments including 100 cities, and a total of 132 foodprints in terms of mass, carbon footprint, and ecological footprint and situates it relative to other significant environmental drivers (transport, energy, and so on) The foodprint was typically the third largest source of mass flows (average is 0.8 tonnes per capita per annum) and carbon footprint (average is 2.1 tonnes carbon dioxide equivalents per capita per annum) in the reviewed cities, whereas it was generally the largest driver of urban ecological footprints (average is 1.2 global hectares per capita per annum), with large deviations based on wealth, culture, and urban form. …”
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An automated solid waste detection using the optimized YOLO model for riverine management by Zailan, Nur Athirah, Azizan, Muhammad Mokhzaini, Hasikin, Khairunnisa, Mohd. Khairuddin, Anis Salwa, Khairuddin, Uswah

“…Riverine management in urban landscapes requires best management practices since the river is a vital component in urban ecological civilization, and it is very imperative to synchronize the connection between urban development and river protection. …”
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Research on the coordinated development between land urbanization and population urbanization in Shaanxi Province, China by Zhao Hangli, Ai Xinnan

“…Therefore, to alleviate the problems associated with the imbalanced development between land urbanization and population urbanization, measures such as optimizing land spatial layout, enhancing urban ecological service functions, and strengthening the central cities' radiating effect should be implemented.…”
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Allometric Growth of Common Urban Tree Species in Qingdao City of Eastern China by Jinming Yang, Mengfan Zhang, Jian Zhang, Huicui Lu, Richard J. Hauer

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Сalculated parameters for the functional zoning of green space in the central part of Reutov by Mikhail A. Slepnev, Nadezhda V. Mozgunova

“…The approach, based on the modern tendencies of urbanization, ecological utility, social benefits and rational use of territories. …”
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Degradation of bisphenol S – a contaminant of emerging concern - by synergistic ozone and percarbonate based AOP by Zahra Askarniya, Manoj P. Rayaroth, Xun Sun, Zhaohui Wang, Grzegorz Boczkaj

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Concatenated Residual Attention UNet for Semantic Segmentation of Urban Green Space by Guoqiang Men, Guojin He, Guizhou Wang

“…Urban green space is generally considered a significant component of the urban ecological environment system, which serves to improve the quality of the urban environment and provides various guarantees for the sustainable development of the city. …”
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The greenhouse effect of antibiotics: The influence pathways of antibiotics on methane release from freshwater sediment by Ziqi Zhang, Zhinan Xu, Xiangrong Wang

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Evaluating the Performance of the Greenbelt Policy in Beijing Using Multi-Source Long-Term Satellite Observations from 2000 to 2020 by Fang-Ying Gong, Chao Wang

“…Beijing is among the first cities in China to implement a greenbelt policy to improve urban vegetation, which plays a crucial role in enhancing the urban ecological environment. The policies have shown remarkable results. …”
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Green infrastructure in cities and towns in Southeast Asian countries: quest for research by Said, Ismail, Mansor, Mazlina

“…The green infrastructure acts as an important countermeasure to alleviate negative effects of urbanisation to residents and urban ecological system. A multidisciplinary literature review on urban open space, greenery and urban natural ecosystem was conducted to assess the body of research that highlights green infrastructure in Southeast Asia cities which include Jakarta, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Manila and Bangkok. …”
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The seeds of ecological recovery in urbanization – Spatiotemporal evolution of ecological resiliency of Dianchi Lake Basin, China by Donghui Li, Junming Yang, Tianzi Hu, Guifang Wang, Samuel A. Cushman, Xinyu Wang, Kollányi László, Rui Su, Lifei Yuan, Bingpeng Li, Yawen Wu, Tian Bai

“…As a result of years of monitoring the ecological resiliency of natural areas and cities, it has become clear that it is both important and often feasible to implement ecological and environmental restoration in conjunction with ongoing processes of landscape change development and urbanization. Ecological resiliency and spatiotemporal evolution studies can objectively reveal the resiliency of ecosystems to external disturbances. …”
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Assessment of urban flood resilience based on a systematic framework by Yuan Zhang, Wencong Yue, Meirong Su, Yanmin Teng, Qianyuan Huang, Weiwei Lu, Qiangqiang Rong, Chao Xu

“…Urban flooding can seriously threaten urban ecological security and human life, and therefore urban flood resilience (UFR) is important for urban safety and stability. …”
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Spatial response of urban land use change and ecosystem service value in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River: A case study of Tongling, China by Fang Liu, Tianling Qin, Shanshan Liu, Hao Wang, Hanjiang Nie

“…Exploring the impact of urban land use change (LUC) on ecosystem services is significant for ensuring urban ecological security and realizing regional economic development. …”
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Evaluating the ecological health of aquatic habitats in a megacity through a multimetric index model based on macroinvertebrates by Congcong Wang, Xiongdong Zhou, Mengzhen Xu, Linyuan Zhang, Xinjue Hou, Zhongsuo Wang, Yao Yang, Yaqi Luo

“…Specific recommendations for ecological protection of different water types were formulated, providing a scientific basis and decision-making support for urban ecological planning and sustainable development.…”
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The NDVI-CV Method for Mapping Evergreen Trees in Complex Urban Areas Using Reconstructed Landsat 8 Time-Series Data by Yingying Yang, Taixia Wu, Shudong Wang, Jing Li, Farhan Muhanmmad

“…Evergreen trees play a significant role in urban ecological services, such as air purification, carbon and oxygen balance, and temperature and moisture regulation. …”
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