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environmental impacts of cities  

Definition

  • A city's urban environment—the area that it occupies—is directly affected by the city's use of materials, air, water, and land. A city's ecological footprint is the space needed to support the city, equivalent to the physical and biological regions disturbed to provide resources to the city and accept its wastes. [Source: Encyclopedia of Geography; Environmental Impacts of Cities]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-SJHXDTGV-9

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