Sentences with phrase «urban river networks»

Urban green spaces such as parks, gardens, and urban river networks deliver ecosystem services to cities reducing flood risk, cooling urban micro-climates, and creating recreational spaces.

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The Danube and Wien rivers were analyzed, the water supply renewed, an urban railway network built, gas and electricity laid on.»

Map showing the Nile River delta with a sea level rise of 1 meter (dark blue) and urban areas (hatched) courtesy of Center for International Earth Science Information Network / Columbia University

While the biggest source of nitrates in the Mississippi River network are industrial fertilizers, nitrates also come from animal manure, urban areas, wastewater treatment and other sources, according to USGS.

Away from the dense network of heat absorbing (daytime) then heat radiating (nighttime) structures which is the Urban Heat Island and above the air with high water vapor content trapped by the valley along the river, not to mention the pall of coal dust over the city, morning low temps were much more like what the natural countryside would experience.

It's a place to learn about initiatives like the Vermont Sail Freight Project, in which a home - built sailing barge, the Ceres, is beginning to connect farmers in Vermont with urban food buyers in Brooklyn, expanding the regional «foodshed,» as some describe farm - to - table networks, by using neglected canal and river trade routes.

Started by the members of one urban community garden in 1992, Nuestras Raíces has grown to a network of community gardens through the city, secured thirty acres of prime farmland along the Connecticut River, organized farmer training and youth leadership programs, assisted in the creation of 25 food and agriculture businesses, community - led environmental and food policy councils and provided opportunities for hope, employment, healthy foods, and cultural celebrations in this Puerto Rican community.