biblog

# 2024-05-04T18:58:55+02:00
Animals and Cities

Animals and Cities: A reflection on their potential in innovating Nature-Based Solutions, by Giulia Granai et al [1]. NBS traditionally focus on plants, but what about animals? City of Lucca (Tuscany, Italy) to become the 1st human-animal city The article talks about wild and non-wild urban non-human animals. "We observed the lack of valorization of animals." They introduce the concept of animal NBS.
[1]
https://www.inhabit-h2020.eu/lucca-2/


# 2024-05-04T18:39:32+02:00 
Urban Resilience

The spatial-temporal evolution and driving mechanism of Urban resilience in the Yellow River Basin cities, by Haiyang Li et al. They measure Urban Resilience (UR) and provide its temporal dynamics and its spatial distribution in different cities. We need to understand entropy weighting better. What is a cloud model? We also need to be acquainted with the polyhedron method; the Geographical Detector; grey correlation analysis; and spatial Dubin analysis. They claim that "research on UR indicator systems and measurements is relatively mature". The reveal an irony: research on UR is concentrated in economically developed regions, whereas underdeveloped areas "have a more urgent need to enhance UR".


# 2024-05-04T11:47:35+02:00
Wildlife as Property Owners

An article, by Karen Bradshaw. Another: "Animal Property Rights", by John Hadley. Relevant
references to read.


# 2024-05-04T11:43:35+02:00

Rituals as Nature-Based Governance

By Carsten Herrmann-Pillath. Rituals vs laws & regulations. Possession (factual use) vs property (legal claim). Ritual as the universal form of claiming possession.