International Journal of Design & Nature and Ecodynamics, Volume 12
International Journal of Design & Nature and Ecodynamics, Volume 12
Print ISSN: 1755-7437
Electronic ISSN: 1755-7445
Issue 4 (01/01/2018)
| URBAN SUSTAINABILITY: CO2 UPTAKE BY GREEN AREAS IN THE HISTORIC CENTRE OF SIENA
Author(s): M. MARCHI, V. NICCOLUCCI, R.M. PULSELLI & N. MARCHETTINI Pages: 10 Page Range: 407 - 417 Price: Free (open access) Copyright: WIT Press DOI: 10.2495/DNE-V12-N4-407-417 | Open Access  Details |
| USE OF BIOENGINEERING TECHNIQUES TO PREVENT LANDSLIDES IN NEPAL FOR HYDROPOWER DEVELOPMENT
Author(s): ROSHANA RAUT & OVE TOBIAS GUDMESTAD Pages: 9 Page Range: 418 - 427 Price: Free (open access) Copyright: WIT Press DOI: 10.2495/DNE-V12-N4-418-427 | Open Access Details |
| THE REPRESENTATION OF LANDSCAPE: SOME CONSIDERATIONS ON ITS ORIGINS
Author(s): PIERO BARLOZZINI Pages: 9 Page Range: 428 - 437 Price: Free (open access) Copyright: WIT Press DOI: 10.2495/DNE-V12-N4-428-437 | Open Access Details |
| THE INFLUENCE OF PLANTING DENSITY ON MODULUS OF ELASTICITY OF STRUCTURAL TIMBER FROM IRISH-GROWN SITKA SPRUCE
Author(s): KARLO SIMIC, VILIUS GENDVILAS, CONOR O’REILLY, MAARTEN NIEUWENHUIS & ANNETTE M. HARTE Pages: 9 Page Range: 438 - 447 Price: Free (open access) Copyright: WIT Press DOI: 10.2495/DNE-V12-N4-438-447 | Open Access Details |
| ESTIMATING THE POTENTIAL OF ACHIEVING SELF-RELIANCE BY ROOFTOP GARDENING IN CHIAYI CITY, TAIWAN
Author(s): YI-HSUAN HSIEH, JUNG-TE HSU & TING-I LEE Pages: 9 Page Range: 448 - 457 Price: Free (open access) Copyright: WIT Press DOI: 10.2495/DNE-V12-N4-448-457 | Open Access Details |
| REAL-WORLD OPEN-ENDED EVOLUTION: A LEAGUE OF LEGENDS ADVENTURE
Author(s): ALYSSA M. ADAMS & SARA I. WALKER Pages: 11 Page Range: 458 - 469 Price: Free (open access) Copyright: WIT Press DOI: 10.2495/DNE-V12-N4-458-469 | Open Access Details |
| THE RELIGIOUS CASE FOR WATER AS A HUMAN RIGHT FROM THE ANDES
Author(s): TERENCE A. MCGOLDRICK Pages: 11 Page Range: 470 - 481 Price: Free (open access) Copyright: WIT Press DOI: 10.2495/DNE-V12-N4-470-481 | Open Access Details |
| OPTIMAL CLUSTERING TECHNIQUES FOR THE SEGMENTATION OF TOURIST SPENDING. ANALYSIS OF TOURIST SURVEYS IN THE VALENCIAN COMMUNITY (SPAIN): A CASE STUDY
Author(s): A. RABASA, A. PÉREZ-MARTÍN & D. GINER Pages: 9 Page Range: 482 - 491 Price: Free (open access) Copyright: WIT Press DOI: 10.2495/DNE-V12-N4-482-491 | Open Access Details |
| SMART PROJECTS: MULTI-AGENT SOLUTION FOR AEROSPACE APPLICATIONS
Author(s): P. SKOBELEV, S. KOZHEVNIKOV, I. MAYOROV, D. POLUDOV & E. SIMONOVA Pages: 12 Page Range: 492 - 504 Price: Free (open access) Copyright: WIT Press DOI: 10.2495/DNE-V12-N4-492-504 | Open Access Details |
| MORE SPACE AND IMPROVED LIVING CONDITIONS IN CITIES WITH AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES
Author(s): J.M. VLEUGEL & F. BAL Pages: 10 Page Range: 505 - 515 Price: Free (open access) Copyright: WIT Press DOI: 10.2495/DNE-V12-N4-505-515 | Open Access Details |
| CONCEPTUAL MODELLING OF UPSTREAM OFFSHORE SEAWEED SUPPLY
Author(s): PER ENGELSETH & NINA PEREIRA KVADSHEIM Pages: 8 Page Range: 516 - 524 Price: Free (open access) Copyright: WIT Press DOI: 10.2495/DNE-V12-N4-516-524 | Open Access Details |
| COMPLEX SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT COMPETENCY FOR TECHNOLOGY MODERNIZATION
Author(s): L.D. GITELMAN, D.G. SANDLER, T.B. GAVRILOVA & M.V. KOZHEVNIKOV Pages: 12 Page Range: 525 - 537 Price: Free (open access) Copyright: WIT Press DOI: 10.2495/DNE-V12-N4-525-537 | Open Access Details |
Issue 3 (30/09/2017)
| Sustainable actions for urban and territorial regeneration
Author(s): DONATELLA CIALDEA Pages: 9 Page Range: 271 - 280 Price: Free (open access) Copyright: WIT Press DOI: 10.2495/DNE-V12-N3-271-280 | Open Access Details |
| The economic value of landscape aesthetics in Albufera natural park through the analytic multicriteria valuation method
Author(s): VICENTE ESTRUCH-GUITART & MARÍA VALLÉS-PLANELLS Pages: 21 Page Range: 281 - 302 Price: Free (open access) Copyright: WIT Press DOI: 10.2495/DNE-V12-N3-281-302 | Open Access Details |
| Conserving geo-diversity: the importance of valuing the heritage elements at Langkawi Geopark
Author(s): N.S.M. FAUZI & A. MISNI Pages: 10 Page Range: 303 - 313 Price: Free (open access) Copyright: WIT Press DOI: 10.2495/DNE-V12-N3-303-313 | Open Access Details |
| The river’s contract: an opportunity for new landscape planning activities
Author(s): D. CIALDEA & S. CACUCCI Pages: 9 Page Range: 314 - 323 Price: Free (open access) Copyright: WIT Press DOI: 10.2495/DNE-V12-N3-314-323 | Open Access Details |
| The practice of sustainability in response to the challenges of agriculture in Mexico
Author(s): A. CALLEROS-ISLAS Pages: 13 Page Range: 324 - 337 Price: Free (open access) Copyright: WIT Press DOI: 10.2495/DNE-V12-N3-324-337 | Open Access Details |
| Social sustainable development or sustainable social development - two sides of the same coin? the structure of social justice as a normative basis for the social dimension of sustainability
Author(s): THILO J. KETSCHAU Pages: 9 Page Range: 338 - 347 Price: Free (open access) Copyright: WIT Press DOI: 10.2495/DNE-V12-N3-338-347 | Open Access Details |
| Reverse logistics as a complex system: a case study of waste management in the Norwegian offshore petroleum industry
Author(s): P. ENGELSETH Pages: 8 Page Range: 348 - 356 Price: Free (open access) Copyright: WIT Press DOI: 10.2495/DNE-V12-N3-348-356 | Open Access Details |
| Transformable structures: materialising design for change
Author(s): STIJN BRANCART, ANNE PADUART, ALINE VERGAUWEN, CAMILLE VANDERVAEREN, LARS DE LAET & NIELS DE TEMMERMAN Pages: 9 Page Range: 357 - 366 Price: Free (open access) Copyright: WIT Press DOI: 10.2495/DNE-V12-N3-357-366 | Open Access Details |
| The information requirements of complex biological and economic systems with algorithmic information theory
Author(s): S. DEVINE Pages: 9 Page Range: 367 - 376 Price: Free (open access) Copyright: WIT Press DOI: 10.2495/DNE-V12-N3-367-376 | Open Access Details |
| Mathematics of complex adaptive systems
Author(s): JOHN R. CLYMER Pages: 7 Page Range: 377 - 384 Price: Free (open access) Copyright: WIT Press DOI: 10.2495/DNE-V12-N3-377-384 | Open Access Details |
| Fractals as a metaphor in dialectology
Author(s): J. ROSENHOUSE Pages: 10 Page Range: 385 - 395 Price: Free (open access) Copyright: WIT Press DOI: 10.2495/DNE-V12-N3-385-395 | Open Access Details |
Issue 2 (28/02/2017)
| Preface
Author(s): C.A. Brebbia Pages: 0 Page Range: - Price: Free (open access) Copyright: WIT Press DOI: 10.2495/ | Open Access Details |
| The Heraclitean nature of time in the platform for life and its relationship with Parmenidean reality
Author(s): R.G. BOOTHROYD Pages: 12 Page Range: 143 - 155 Price: Free (open access) Copyright: WIT Press DOI: 10.2495/DNE-V12-N2-143-155 | Open Access Details |
| The comparative numerical analysis of nature and architecture: a new framework
Author(s): J. VAUGHAN & M.J. OSTWALD Pages: 10 Page Range: 156 - 166 Price: Free (open access) Copyright: WIT Press DOI: 10.2495/DNE-V12-N2-156-166 | Open Access Details |
| The irreversible evolution of buildings
Author(s): V. BONETTI & P. ROBAZZA Pages: 8 Page Range: 167 - 175 Price: Free (open access) Copyright: WIT Press DOI: 10.2495/DNE-V12-N2-167-175 | Open Access Details |
| High-rise airflow structural concept
Author(s): M.C. PHOCAS, O. KONTOVOURKIS & N.I. GEORGIOU Pages: 8 Page Range: 176 - 184 Price: Free (open access) Copyright: WIT Press DOI: 10.2495/DNE-V12-N2-176-184 | Open Access Details |
| The de Mestral Project: using macro photo-journaling to stimulate interest in bio-inspired design and science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines
Author(s): BROOK S. KENNEDY Pages: 8 Page Range: 185 - 193 Price: Free (open access) Copyright: WIT Press DOI: 10.2495/DNE-V12-N2-185-193 | Open Access Details |
| Movement as a design parameter: studio works 2014–2016
Author(s): D.G. OZER & A.A. KAVAKOGLU Pages: 9 Page Range: 194 - 203 Price: Free (open access) Copyright: WIT Press DOI: 10.2495/DNE-V12-N2-194-203 | Open Access Details |
| Evolutionary design: the application of biological strategies in the product design process
Author(s): NARIMAN G. LOTFI Pages: 9 Page Range: 204 - 213 Price: Free (open access) Copyright: WIT Press DOI: 10.2495/DNE-V12-N2-204-213 | Open Access Details |
| Behavior of natural organisms as a mimicking tool in architecture
Author(s): DEENA EL-MAHDY & HISHAM S. GABR Pages: 10 Page Range: 214 - 224 Price: Free (open access) Copyright: WIT Press DOI: 10.2495/DNE-V12-N2-214-224 | Open Access Details |
| Nature and buddhist architecture: Sri Lanka
Author(s): W. DE SILVA Pages: 9 Page Range: 225 - 234 Price: Free (open access) Copyright: WIT Press DOI: 10.2495/DNE-V12-N2-225-234 | Open Access Details |
| Adaptive structures and design concept of transformable joints
Author(s): Q. WANG & P. TEUFFEL Pages: 10 Page Range: 235 - 245 Price: Free (open access) Copyright: WIT Press DOI: 10.2495/DNE-V12-N2-235-245 | Open Access Details |
| Adaptation of eco-friendly approach in the production of soluble pozzolanic material
Author(s): ANDRI KUSBIANTORO, RAHIMAH EMBONG & NASIR SHAFIQ Pages: 7 Page Range: 246 - 253 Price: Free (open access) Copyright: WIT Press DOI: 10.2495/DNE-V12-N2-246-253 | Open Access Details |
Issue 1 (01/01/2017)
| SYSTEMS ECOLOGY, ENERGY NETWORKS, AND A PATH TO SUSTAINABILITY
Author(s): BRIAN D. FATH Pages: 14 Page Range: 1 - 15 Price: Free (open access) Copyright: WIT Press DOI: 10.2495/DNE-V12-N1-1-15 | Open Access Details |
| BIOCLIMATISM IN ARCHITECTURE: AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE
Author(s): A.T. NGUYEN & S. REITER Pages: 13 Page Range: 16 - 29 Price: Free (open access) Copyright: WIT Press DOI: 10.2495/DNE-V12-N1-16-29 | Open Access Details |
| FLOW PATTERNS IN HELICAL-TYPE GRAFT: BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS
Author(s): E.S. BERNAD, S.I. BERNAD, A.F. TOTOREAN, A.I. BOSIOC & I. SARGAN Pages: 13 Page Range: 30 - 43 Price: Free (open access) Copyright: WIT Press DOI: 10.2495/DNE-V12-N1-30-43 | Open Access Details |
| CONSTRUCTAL MODEL OF FITTS’S LAW TO PREDICT SPEED–ACCURACY TRADE-OFF
Author(s): SATISH BOREGOWDA, ROD HANDY, DARRAH SLEETH & ANDREW MERRYWEATHER Pages: 10 Page Range: 44 - 54 Price: Free (open access) Copyright: WIT Press DOI: 10.2495/DNE-V12-N1-44-54 | Open Access Details |
| ELECTROMAGNETIC-THERMAL ANALYSIS FOR HUMAN EXPOSURE TO HIGH FREQUENCY (HF) RADIATION
Author(s): DRAGAN POLJAK, MARIO CVETKOVIĆ, HRVOJE DODIG & ANDRES PERATTA Pages: 12 Page Range: 55 - 67 Price: Free (open access) Copyright: WIT Press DOI: 10.2495/DNE-V12-N1-55-67 | Open Access Details |
| THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT AS A COMPLEX SYSTEM
Author(s): C.E. CLOETE Pages: 6 Page Range: 68 - 74 Price: Free (open access) Copyright: WIT Press DOI: 10.2495/DNE-V12-N1-68-74 | Open Access Details |
| IMPROVEMENT OF SOUND CONDUCTION EFFICIENCY FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF VIBRATION CHARACTERISTICS OF THE HUMAN MIDDLE EAR
Author(s): T. HIGASHIMACHI, Y. LIU, T. OSHIKATA & R. TORIYA Pages: 10 Page Range: 75 - 85 Price: Free (open access) Copyright: WIT Press DOI: 10.2495/DNE-V12-N1-75-85 | Open Access Details |
| POST-REFLECTING ON THE PROCESS OF INTEGRAL DESIGN OF AN ADAPTIVE FOOTBRIDGE STRUCTURE USING BENDING-ACTIVE PRINCIPLES
Author(s): M.C. PHOCAS, O. KONTOVOURKIS & K. ALEXANDROU Pages: 14 Page Range: 86 - 100 Price: Free (open access) Copyright: WIT Press DOI: 10.2495/DNE-V12-N1-86-100 | Open Access Details |
| SWARM INTELLIGENCE ALGORITHMS FOR THE PROBLEM OF THE OPTIMAL PLACEMENT AND OPERATION CONTROL OF REACTIVE POWER SOURCES INTO POWER GRIDS
Author(s): V. MANUSOV, P. MATRENIN & S. KOKIN Pages: 11 Page Range: 101 - 112 Price: Free (open access) Copyright: WIT Press DOI: 10.2495/DNE-V12-N1-101-112 | Open Access Details |
| COMPARISON OF COMPETITIVENESS OF GRID COMPANIES AND INDUSTRIAL COMPANIES’ OWN GENERATING UNITS
Author(s): L.M. GITELMAN, L.D. GITELMAN & A.V. DENISOV Pages: 10 Page Range: 113 - 123 Price: Free (open access) Copyright: WIT Press DOI: 10.2495/DNE-V12-N1-113-123 | Open Access Details |
| A COMPLEXITY UNDERPINNING FOR DOMESTIC CLIMATE MITIGATION POLICY IN SOUTH AFRICA
Author(s): E. TYLER & B. COHEN Pages: 8 Page Range: 124 - 132 Price: Free (open access) Copyright: WIT Press DOI: 10.2495/DNE-V12-N1-124-132 | Open Access Details |
Print ISSN: 1755-7437
Electronic ISSN: 1755-7445
A transdisciplinary journal relating nature, science and the humanities
The International Journal of Design & Nature and Ecodynamics opens new avenues for understanding the relationship between arts and sciences. The objective of the journal is to encourage and facilitate inter-disciplinary communication between scientists in different disciplines, as well as other professionals in academia, research institutions or industry, working on a variety of studies involving nature and its significance to modern scientific thought and design.
