Urban greenspace has gained considerable attention during the last decades because of its relevance to wildlife conservation, human welfare, and climate change adaptation. Biodiversity loss ecosystem degradation worldwide require formation new concepts ecological restoration rehabilitation aimed at improving functions, services, biodiversity conservation in cities. Although relict sites natural...

Climate change, natural hazards, and human actions are threatening cultural heritage in urban areas. More than ever, building regulations’ procedures criteria essential to guarantee the protection safeguarding of areas their buildings. These crucial assist stakeholders decision-making, especially when facing rapid transitions transformative changes Several institutional charge strengthen need f...

Cities experience rapid growth and transformation. Over the past decades, change has been particularly intense complex, associated to globalization, spatial compression temporal acceleration. Within this context, EU funds introduced new urban rehabilitation dynamics that made a city center more attractive. This, alongside of international tourism, increased number users, which furthered discuss...

Environmental rehabilitation of urban streams has been widely applied in Global North countries, at least since the 1970s, but it is a recent approach South countries. The objective this paper to evaluate whether experience carried out 2006 three stream sites third-largest Brazilian metropolis (c. 5.5 million inhabitants) was and continues be effective terms socio-environmental improvement afte...