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Fire risk assessment and safety management in buildings and urban spaces—A new section of Fire Journal (2022)
Journal Article
Ferreira, T. M. (2022). Fire risk assessment and safety management in buildings and urban spaces—A new section of Fire Journal. Fire, 5(3), 74. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire5030074

It is a great pleasure to assume the role of Editor-in-Chief for the “Fire Risk Assessment and Safety Management in Buildings and Urban Spaces” Section of Fire (https://www.mdpi.com/ journal/fire/sections/fire_risk_assessment_safety_management_buildi... Read More about Fire risk assessment and safety management in buildings and urban spaces—A new section of Fire Journal.

Urban seismic risk assessment and damage estimation: Case of Rif Buildings (North of Morocco) (2022)
Journal Article
Cherif, S. E., Chaaraoui, A., Chourak, M., Oualid Mghazli, M., El Omari, A., & Ferreira, T. M. (2022). Urban seismic risk assessment and damage estimation: Case of Rif Buildings (North of Morocco). Buildings, 12(6), 742. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings12060742

The interest in assessing seismic risk in earthquake-prone regions in Morocco has been increasing over recent decades, to a large extent due to the substantial amount of damage imposed by recent events and because the population in these regions has... Read More about Urban seismic risk assessment and damage estimation: Case of Rif Buildings (North of Morocco).

Editorial: Longer Distance Cycling: Roles, Requirements and Impacts (2022)
Journal Article
Parkin, J., & Fjendbo Jensen, A. (2022). Editorial: Longer Distance Cycling: Roles, Requirements and Impacts. Active Travel Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2(2), https://doi.org/10.16997/ats.1301

This Editorial summarises and comments on the five papers in the themed issue on longer distance cycling. In relation to infrastructure, there are contentions which emerge in relation to either the need to simply join together already existing shorte... Read More about Editorial: Longer Distance Cycling: Roles, Requirements and Impacts.

Failure is the greatest teacher: Embracing the positives of failure in primate conservation (2022)
Journal Article
Webber, A., Cotton, S., & McCabe, G. (2023). Failure is the greatest teacher: Embracing the positives of failure in primate conservation. International Journal of Primatology, 43, 1095–1109. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10764-022-00296-w

“Failure” is recognised as being vital for success in many fields but is seldom embraced in primate conservation or conservation more generally. In this paper, we use examples from the literature, particularly around reintroduction, to reflect on fai... Read More about Failure is the greatest teacher: Embracing the positives of failure in primate conservation.

Integrating the Budyko framework with the emerging hot spot analysis in local land use planning for regulating surface evapotranspiration ratio (2022)
Journal Article
Pingyu, F., Chun, K. P., Mijic, A., Tan, M. L., & Yetemen, O. (2022). Integrating the Budyko framework with the emerging hot spot analysis in local land use planning for regulating surface evapotranspiration ratio. Journal of Environmental Management, 316, Article 115232. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115232

Land use planning regulates surface hydrological processes by adjusting land properties with varied evapotranspiration ratios. However, a dearth of empirical spatial information hampers the regulation of place-specific hydrological processes. Therefo... Read More about Integrating the Budyko framework with the emerging hot spot analysis in local land use planning for regulating surface evapotranspiration ratio.

DMRB flexible road pavement design using re-engineered expansive road subgrade materials with varying plasticity index (2022)
Journal Article
Abbey, S. (2022). DMRB flexible road pavement design using re-engineered expansive road subgrade materials with varying plasticity index. Geotechnics, 2(2), 395-411. https://doi.org/10.3390/geotechnics2020018

Pavement thickness is a very vital component during the design stage of a road construction project. Pavement design helps to determine the costs of the project over a certain period to ascertain how the cost of road pavement construction affect the... Read More about DMRB flexible road pavement design using re-engineered expansive road subgrade materials with varying plasticity index.

City planning policies to support health and sustainability: an international comparison of policy indicators for 25 cities (2022)
Journal Article
Lowe, M., Adlakha, D., Sallis, J. F., Salvo, D., Cerin, E., Moudon, A. V., …Giles-Corti, B. (2022). City planning policies to support health and sustainability: an international comparison of policy indicators for 25 cities. Lancet Global Health, 10(6), e882-e894. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X%2822%2900069-9

City planning policies influence urban lifestyles, health, and sustainability. We assessed policy frameworks for city planning for 25 cities across 19 lower-middle-income countries, upper-middle-income countries, and high-income countries to identify... Read More about City planning policies to support health and sustainability: an international comparison of policy indicators for 25 cities.

Using open data and open-source software to develop spatial indicators of urban design and transport features for achieving healthy and sustainable cities (2022)
Journal Article
Boeing, G., Higgs, C., Liu, S., Giles-Corti, B., Sallis, J. F., Cerin, E., …Arundel, J. (2022). Using open data and open-source software to develop spatial indicators of urban design and transport features for achieving healthy and sustainable cities. Lancet Global Health, 10(6), e907-e918. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X%2822%2900072-9

Benchmarking and monitoring of urban design and transport features is crucial to achieving local and international health and sustainability goals. However, most urban indicator frameworks use coarse spatial scales that either only allow between-city... Read More about Using open data and open-source software to develop spatial indicators of urban design and transport features for achieving healthy and sustainable cities.

Exposure and physical vulnerability indicators to assess seismic risk in urban areas: A step towards a multi-hazard risk analysis (2022)
Journal Article
Xofi, M., Domingues, J. C., Santos, P. P., Pereira, S., Oliveira, S. C., Reis, E., …Ferreira, T. M. (2022). Exposure and physical vulnerability indicators to assess seismic risk in urban areas: A step towards a multi-hazard risk analysis. Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk, 13(1), 1154-1177. https://doi.org/10.1080/19475705.2022.2068457

Understanding the impacts of multi-hazard risk in urban areas is a fundamental step towards the adoption of resilience-enhancement and disaster prevention strategies, underpinning institutional adjustments aimed at improving the capacity of the autho... Read More about Exposure and physical vulnerability indicators to assess seismic risk in urban areas: A step towards a multi-hazard risk analysis.