Urban pluvial flooding (UPF) resulting from localized, intense, rainfall-generated ponding
and overland flow causes a range of socio-environmental impacts. UPF is driven by a …

Abstract The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim to achieve a more inclusive,
resilient, safe and sustainable society. Policy makers, together with entrepreneurs and …

Cellular automata (CA) has become one of the most prevalent approaches for spatially
explicit urban growth modeling. Previous studies have investigated how the key components …

Urban growth is a dynamic and evolutionary spatial and social process. Urban development
can be considered as a function of strategic behavior of the involved agents, which is …

Today, safety control is considered one of the most important pillars of building construction
processes due to maintaining security in major incidents such as fire, earthquake, and flood …

This work proposes an agent-based model to analyze the spread processes of the COVID-
19 epidemics in open regions and based on hypothetical social scenarios of viral …

Simulation-based participatory modelling allows integration of all types of knowledge
including empirical, technical and scientific from all disciplines and domains. Thus, in recent …

The social and ecological challenges of our time require a better understanding of the
complex interactions between the multiple dimensions of human well-being and …

Urban green spaces provide environmental, economic, societal and health benefits to cities.
However, policy and planning interventions aiming to improve usage have often led to …

As an infrastructure-related urban indicator, urban land theoretically has a sub-linear scaling
relationship with urban population, which has been evidenced around various urban …