Urban Planning
The science-and some say art-of managing and directing city growth. Urban planning involves many disciplines, from architecture and engineering to environmental studies.
Are Urban Heat Islands Linked to Global Warming?
Poor urban design is the biggest cause of the heat islands in our cities ...
urban planning - the science of managing and directing city growth.
uranium - a heavy, radioactive metal (atomic number 92) used in the explosion of nuclear weapons (especially one isotope, U-235).
urban land
Areas so altered or obstructed by urban works or structures that identification of soils is not feasible. A miscellaneous land type.
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Urban runoff: Storm water from city streets and adjacent domestic or commercial properties that may carry pollutants of various kinds into the sewer systems and/or receiving waters.
USGS: United States Geological Survey.
urban population All persons living in an urbanized area or in places of 2,500 inhabitants or more outside urbanized areas. Places may be either incorporated or unincorporated.
Urban and built-up areas. A Land cover/use category consisting of residential, industrial, commercial, and institutional land; construction sites; public administrative sites; railroad yards; cemeteries; airports; golf courses; sanitary landfills; ...
Urban Heat Island effect. Warmer air temperatures in cities compared to the surrounding countryside.
URBAN RUNOFF: Water from an urban area that neither infiltrates the soil nor is consumed, but flows into a storm sewer or open waterway.
Urban Runoff
Storm water from city streets and adjacent domestic or commercial properties that may pickup terrestrial contamination and carry pollutants of various kinds into sewer systems and/or receiving waters.
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Urban Air Pollution - Pollution that occurs in cities from the burning of fossil fuels and the emissions of hydrocarbons.
Urban run-off Water from city streets domestic properties that carries pollutants into the sewer systems and receiving waters.
Urban Airshed Model: A three-dimensional photochemical grid model designed to calculate the concentrations of both inert and chemically reactive pollutants in the atmosphere.
Urban Diffusion Model for Carbon Monoxide from Motor Vehicle Traffic
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Air Pollution Training Institute ...
Urban Stream: A stream passing through urbanized area. Impacted by urban stormwater runoff; often channelized; sometimes trashed. Usually an excellent candidate for rehabilitation.
urban clothing
This is a great glossary for green environmental terminology. Some great additions to your list also.
I will definitely keep this page bookmarked and watch for additional terms to be added.
URBAN GROWTH BOUNDARIES
Planning tool that establishes a dividing line that defines where a growth limit is to occur and where agricultural or rural land is to be preserved.
URBAN RETURN FLOWS ...
Urbanism
Cities and Density
Mass Transit
Site Specifics
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habitat urbanizzati, industriali e altri habitat artificiali
Latvian:
izveidotie, rÅ"pnieciskie un citi mÄkslÄ"gÄs biotipi ...
RAM- Urban Air Quality Model for Point and Area Source in EPA UNAMAP Series
RAMP- Rural Abandoned Mine Program
RAMS- Regional Air Monitoring System ...
heat island effect A dome of elevated temperatures over an urban area caused by the heat absorbed by structures and pavement. herbivore An animal that feeds on plants. heterotrophs Organisms that break down and use organic matter.
Impervious area - The amount of impervious surface is a direct measure of the degree of urbanization, and it strongly affects both water quality in urban and suburban areas and replenishment of groundwater.
BMPs are used in both urban and agricultural areas.
bias. An inadequacy in experimental design that leads to results or conclusions not representative of the population under study.
bioaccumulation.
The system of pipes that carries rain water from urban streets back to the ocean. Overwatering your yard can also cause water to run into the streets and into storm drains. Storm drain water is not treated before it is discharged.
This area is often characterized by urban development that was accelerated originally by the presence of stream gradients that were favorable for water powered industries.
Urbanization and industrialization contributes to unfavorable environmental factors. Filtration is a readily available and effective means for cleaning water.
An approximately global instrumental temperature record begins in about 1860; contamination from the urban heat island effect is believed to be small.
Brownfields: Abandoned, idled, or under used industrial and commercial facilities/sites where expansion or redevelopment is complicated by real or perceived environmental contamination. They can be in urban, suburban, or rural areas.
BMP. Best Management Practice. An urban water conservation measure that the California Urban Practice Water Conservation Coalition agrees to implement among member agencies.
deforestation: destruction of forests from logging, land clearing for agricultural and pastural land, mining, oil exploration, urban development and so forth.
1. Localized climate conditions within an urban area or neighbourhood. 2. The climate around a tree or shrub or a stand of trees.
Micro environmental Method ...
Microclimate: 1. Localized climate conditions within an urban area or neighborhood. 2. The climate around a tree or shrub or a stand of trees.
Pollution from a farmer's field or from urban street runoff falls in this category. Compare point source.
Best Management Practice (BMP): structural or managerial technique recognized as the most effective and practical means of controlling pollution for an agricultural, urban, forested, or mining area.
and managerial techniques that are recognized to be the most effective and practical means to control non-point source pollutants yet are compatible with the productive use of the resource to which they are applied. BMPs are used in both urban and ...
Nonpoint source pollution is contamination that occurs when rainwater, snowmelt, or irrigation washes off plowed fields, city streets, or suburban backyards.
For example, heavy pollution may affect the amount of sunlight reaching the ground, increased pollution may affect the acidity of rain, increased urbanisation may create 'hot spots' where the concrete of cities absorbs heat and changes the climate ...
In China, the incidence of spinal cord injury was recently estimated to be as high as 65 cases per million per year in urban areas. If so, assuming a population of 1.3 billion, this would suggest an incidence of 84,500 per year (65 * 1300).
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