BACKGROUND Strong community linkages are essential to a health care organization's overall preparedness for emergencies. OBJECTIVE To assess community emergency preparedness linkages among hospitals, public health officials, and first responders and to investigate the influence of community hazards, previous preparation for an event requiring national security oversight, and experience respon...

The economic linkages between cities within the Yangtze River Economic Belt city cluster are important for precisely implementing strategy. Accordingly, this study used revised gravity model, social network method, and spatial Durbin model to analyze linkage strength, spatial-temporal differentiation, driving factors of three major in from 2006–2020. results confirm that Chengdu-Chongqing urban...

Economic theories of systems of cities explain why production and consumption activities are concentrated in a number of urban areas of different sizes and industrial composition rather than uniformly distributed in space. These theories have been successively influenced by four paradigms: i) conventional urban economics emphasizing the tension between economies due to the spatial concentration...

While labour linkages and flows between rural urban India have been studied, there is little discussion on the implications of agrarian question capital for urban. This particularly important given intertwining caste accumulation in India. If are barriers to entry into urban, what does it mean pathways diversification out agriculture? In this article, we address by comparing trajectories two gr...

Vast metropolitan areas include both urban areas and rural outskirts. Between these areas, there are strong links to the point which they cannot be examined separately. There is a contemporary presence of residential function and working activity in the rural outskirts, as well as in the typical sector of agriculture. Therefore, the production of goods and services for the city requires a combi...

Economic theories of systems of cities explain why production and consumption activities are concentrated in a number of urban areas of different sizes and industrial composition rather than uniformly distributed in space. These theories have been successively influenced by four paradigms: i) conventional urban economics emphasizing the tension between economies due to the spatial concentration...