Increasing urban water self-sufficiency: New era, new challenges

Increasing urban water self-sufficiency: new era, new challenges.

Urban water supplies are traditionally based on limited freshwater resources located outside the cities. However, a range of concepts and techniques to exploit alternative water resources has gained ground as water demands begin to exceed the freshwater available to cities. Based on 113 cases and 15 in-depth case studies, solutions used to increase water self-sufficiency in urban areas are anal...

New Challenges for Urban Governance

New era of stroke therapy and new challenges

Correspondence to Zhongrong Miao; [email protected] The year 2015 was revolutionary for the treatment of acute ischaemic stroke (AIS) because of publication of multiple large randomised controlled clinical trials (RCTs) on the success of mechanical thrombectomy. Campbell et al provided a very comprehensive review of this topic in this issue of Stroke and Vascular Neurology. Consequently, the E...

Oral human papillomavirus infection: new challenges for a new era?

Oral Human Papillomavirus Infection: New Challenges for a New Era? Dimitrios ANYFANTAKISa; Emmanouil K. SYMVOULAKISb; Adelais MARKAKIc; George RACHIOTISd aPrimary Health Care Centre of Kissamos, Chania, Crete, Greece bPrivate Family Practice Unit in Heraklion, Crete, Greece cDepartment of Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece dDepartment of Hygiene and Epi...

Displacement in urban areas: new challenges, new partnerships.

Rapid urbanisation is a key characteristic of the modern world, interacting with and reinforcing other global mega trends, including armed conflict, climate change, crime, environmental degradation, financial and economic instability, food shortages, underemployment, volatile commodity prices, and weak governance. Displaced people also are affected by and engaged in the process of urbanisation....