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Planning Ecologically Just Cities: A Framework to Assess Ecological Injustice Hotspots for Targeted Urban Design and Planning of Nature-Based Solutions

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Pages 206-222 | Received 13 Mar 2022, Accepted 10 Jun 2022, Published online: 02 Sep 2022

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