There is growing concern about the consequences of future urban expansion on carbon storage as our planet experiences rapid urbanization. While an increasing body literature was focused quantifying impact across globe, rare attempts were made from comparative perspective same scale, particularly in Central Asia. In this study, Asian capitals, namely Ashkhabad, Bishkek, Dushanbe, Nur Sultan, and...

China has entered a deeply aging society, and the population poses significant public risk to fiscal sustainability. In this regard, researchers have conducted large number of studies, but sustainability indicators used in existing literature are not scientific enough, sample data too macro, heterogeneity analysis is comprehensive enough. This paper innovatively constructs based on from 4 munic...

Adaptive capacity is the capabilities, resources and institutions of a country or region to implement effective adaptation measures. This article aims highlight pastoral communities’ differential adaptive buffer household food insecurity. We use mixed methods including case households key informants provide qualitative data on determinants capacity. Subsequently cluster analysis applied combine...

Vulnerability assessments have often invoked sustainable livelihoods theory to support the quantification of adaptive capacity based on the availability of capital--social, human, physical, natural, and financial. However, the assumption that increased availability of these capitals confers greater adaptive capacity remains largely untested. We quantified the relationship between commonly used ...

Abstract Prominent arguments hold that African states’ geography limits state capacity, impedes public service provision, and slows economic development. To test this argument, I collect comprehensive panel data on a proxy of local travel times to national regional capitals. These are computed yearly 5 × km grid using time-varying roads administrative units (1966–2016). use these estimate the e...

The premodern city was frequently organized as a self-reflexive representation of universal order; the perceived design of the cosmos was inscribed in the ideal order of society, and from this ideal flowed moral authority and social stability (Townsend 1979; Wheatley 1971; Wright 1977). Certain pre-Hispanic Andean capitals, such as Inca Cusco, Chan Chan, the capital of the Kingdom of Chimor, an...

OBJECTIVES In order to estimate the prevalence of influenza like illness (ILI) in adults from all state capitals and geographic regions in Brazil, a periodical monitoring of ILI cases by the national telephone survey (VIGITEL) was carried out in 2010. METHOD A cross-sectional study with 47,876 telephone interviews in the state capitals and Federal District, a probabilistic sample of adult pop...

OBJECTIVE Cancer mortality rates began to decline in developed countries in the 1990s, but their behavior in developing countries is less well-known. An earlier study on cancer mortality in Brazil showed a declining mortality trend for cancer as a whole. however the quality of data results raised some criticism t. The population of state capitals comprises about a quarter of the total Brazilian...

This paper reports on a small-scale research study into the beliefs of teenagers in Switzerland Swiss national languages and their status relative to English. High school students (n = 232) French-speaking city Lausanne completed questionnaire about economic, social, cultural symbolic value German, Italian The data was then analysed quantitatively by computing means, standard deviations, signif...