Sustainable development is a key component in urban studies. Earth Observation (EO) can play a valuable role in sustainable urban development and planning, since it represents a powerful data source with the potential to provide a number of relevant urban sustainability indicators. To this end, in this paper we propose a conceptual list of EO-based indicators capable of supporting urban plannin...

Zanzibar is one of the smallest participants in the United Nations Sustainable Cities Program. As Zanzibar is a relatively compact urban area with just over 200 000 residents and without substantial industrial pollutants, the task of making it “sustainable” would appear at first pass to be fairly uncomplicated. Zanzibar benefits from a significant government commitment to environmental policy a...

Sustainable development is a widely accepted strategic framework for decisionmaking about the future use of land, but it is not very well adopted in landscape research and planning. Sustainable landscape development aims to ensure the longterm potential of the landscape to sustain ecological, cultural and economic functions. It also entails that local actors take part in planning and design of ...

Energy is a fundamental need of modern society and basis for economic social development, one the major Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), particularly SDG7. However, UN’s SDG Report 2021 betrays millions people living without electricity one-third world’s population deprived using energy cooking services (MECS) through access to electricity. Achieving SDG7 requires standard approaches tools ...

Resilience of power systems is already a key issue that getting frequent attention all over the world. It useful to analyze resilience issues not only for bulk supply, but at levels including customer level. This because distributed energy resources can play prominent role in enhancing resilience. Although literature on planning models, tools and data supply distribution have expanded recent ye...

Biocatalysts, capable of efficiently transforming CO2 into other more reduced forms of carbon, offer sustainable alternatives to current oxidative technologies that rely on diminishing natural fossil-fuel deposits. Enzymes that catalyse CO2 fixation steps in carbon assimilation pathways are promising catalysts for the sustainable transformation of this safe and renewable feedstock into central ...