Introduction Regardless of how horrible and devastating wildland fires are portrayed by the media, they are a natural disturbance that many native ecosystems depend on for regeneration. As the population of the United States increases, more individuals are building their homes in wildlands rather than urban landscapes. Homes built in undeveloped wildland vegetation create areas often referred t...

This paper analyzes the construction method and expression of exterior interior finishes in houses designed by Tsuchiura Kameki before WWII. proposed a wooden dry system 1930s as low-cost modern urban housing model applied new materials such slate board fiberboard. In many houses, painted white to make joints unobtrusive impression pale colors soften walls background living space. Such presence...

OBJECTIVE To assess the operational effectiveness of long-lasting insecticide treated materials (ITMs), when used at household level, for the control of Aedes aegypti in moderately infested urban and suburban areas. METHODS In an intervention study, ITMs consisting of curtains and water jar-covers (made from PermaNet) were distributed under routine field conditions in 10 clusters (5 urban and...

The objective of this paper is to show that the visualization of an urban landscape by 3D computer graphics can be used as indicators of human habitats on a worldwide basis when we think of a sustainable world in future. In the 1900s, in Japan, 2D digital urban maps became popular as commercial products such as automobile navigation map with GPS. They adopted the traditional map making techniqu...

for Deltas in Times of Climate Change II International Conference Simulating Land Use Change to Explore Sustainable Urban Renewal Strategies in the Context of Flood Risk Bart Rijken, Eric Koomen Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, PBL, Bilthoven, the Netherlands, email: [email protected]. Department of Spatial Economics/SPINlab, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands. In highly devel...

Maya and Aztec cities exhibited a distinctive kind of low-density urbanism common in ancient Mesoamerica. The non-monumental components of these cities differed from the high-density ancient and historical cities in the Old World that are often considered the norm for pre-modern urbanism. Distinctive features include the practice of intensive agricultural cultivation within urban settlements, r...

Fluctuations of bird abundances in the Midwest region of the United States have been attributed to such factors as landscape change, habitat fragmentation, depredation, and supplemental feeding. However, no attempt has been made to estimate the collective role of landowner activities that may influence birds across a landscape. To investigate how landowners might influence birds when the majori...

The wildland urban interface (WUI) delineates the areas where wildland fire hazard most directly impacts human communities and threatens lives and property, and where houses exert the strongest influence on the natural environment. Housing data are a major problem for WUI mapping. When housing data are zonal, the concept of a WUI neighborhood can be captured easily in a density measure, but var...