Spatial information and residents' experiences for development of comfortable living environments
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Published: 2020-11-25
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We focus on the accessibility to green and water areas within suburbs and their socio-economic variation between suburbs, as well as their role in supporting wellbeing....
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Urban and regional planning with the young generation - URGENT
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Published: 2019-09-30
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See the material from the Schools Meet Society - Insights for Updating Sustainability Education - Seminar 11 September, 2020 below ...
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Urban and regional planning with the young generation - URGENT
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Urbanisation
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Published: 2019-07-11
The share of population living in cities and urban areas is increasing globally. Up to 70% of Finns already live in urban areas, while the global figure is over 50%. Urbanisation is often considered ...
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Best Practices Promoting Sustainable Urban Form - YKR-demo
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Published: 2019-06-07
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The project supports sustainable urbanization in Finnish cities and urban areas. It is carried out during 2019 and 2020 in collaboration with SYKE, Ministry of the ...
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Beyond MALPE-coordination: integrative envisioning - BEMINE
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Published: 2017-01-18
Beyond MALPE-coordination: integrative envisioning (BEMINE) aims to build upon the existing Finnish MALPE city-regional planning approach, which includes land use (M), housing (A), transport (L), ser...
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Article by SYKE researchers selected Highly Commended Paper by network awards for excellence
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Published: 2016-04-29
The scientific article by Kirsi Mäkinen, Paula Kivimaa and Ville Helminen, “Path creation for urban mobility transitions - linking aspects of urban form to transport policy analysis” was published in ......
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Article by SYKE researchers selected Highly Commended Paper by network awards for excellence
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Article by SYKE researchers selected Highly Commended Paper by network awards for excellence
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Environmental impacts of land use have been underestimated
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Published: 2015-08-10
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Environmental impacts of land use have been widely assessed in recent years. In particular, carbon footprints of food and bioenergy production have been studied. Envir......
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Environmental impacts of land use have been underestimated
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New phase of urbanisation within metropolitan areas — Helsinki lagging behind Stockholm
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Published: 2015-06-15
A recent study on the metropolitan areas of Helsinki and Stockholm indicates that the urban form in the two regions has developed partially in different directions during the past 20 years. Stockholm ......
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Urban Zones Applied in Planning (Urban Zone 3)
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Published: 2015-02-04
Urban Zone 3 project is dealing with the future development of the urban form in Finnish urban regions. Travel-related urban zone method is applied in various planning cases of different-sized Finnis...
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Light pollution - a serious environmental problem? (VALO)
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Published: 2013-10-08
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Light pollution is artificial light that causes adverse effects to the functioning of ecosystems or to human health or well-being. Light pollution - a serious environment...
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More accurate information available about urban and rural areas
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Published: 2013-06-10
A new geographic classification about the distribution of urban and rural areas provides a more accurate picture than previous statistics of, among other things, the distribution of Finland's populati......
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Future innovation and technology policy for sustainable system-level transitions: the case of transport (FIP-Trans)
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Published: 2013-05-06
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Significant benefits would be achieved if present-day transport systems could be transformed and oil-dependency reduced. Potential benefits include increased self-sufficiency and ...
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Future innovation and technology policy for sustainable system-level transitions: the case of transport (FIP-Trans)
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Green infra - The dependence of ecosystem services and biodiversity on the green infrastructure
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Published: 2013-05-02
About the Green infra project
The changes in land use practices have led to the degradation of ecosystems, habitat fragmentation, and consequently the loss of biodiversity and associated ecos...
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Green infra - The dependence of ecosystem services and biodiversity on the green infrastructure
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