The increasing severity of climate changes and environmental risks led to the paradigm shift in urban planning towards resilience cities. However, coastal cities are on frontline facing these challenges. local context developing countries is adding more pressure city resilience. In Egypt, Red Sea increasingly exposed flash floods, storms under uncertainties risks. They have special environmenta...

The determination of the value of sea area used for port transportation involves the distribution of economic interests between the Chinese government and the users of sea areas. This paper builds an evaluation index system for the value of port transport sea areas. It is the first of its type to introduce the multiple regression weighting TOPSIS method (Technique for Order Preference by Simila...

China has made great progress since it opened its economy two decades ago and began a transition to a market economy. An extraordinary modernization process has taken place, particularly in the coastal areas and cities. New industries have been developing fast, enormous progress has been made in the business environment, and the country has considerably improved its participation in the global ...

— This article investigates determinants of China s mortality levels and trends since 1981. Econometric results show that both economic development and social policies matter to survival outcomes, but in different magnitudes for various mortality measures. Economic growth plays a key role in reducing mortality in childhood and especially adulthood, and raises life expectancy. Declining adult il...

Climate change enters significantly into and is shown to be a direct determinant of residence and job location change decisions. Understanding of how people’s residence and job location change choice behavior is affected and thus responds to the impacts of climate change is essential for transportation planners and adaptation decision makers. As an addition to the current literature, the main p...

Insurance was widely recognized as a useful tool for risk management in regional economic growth. Lots of analysis focused on building a fixed functional relationship between insurance development and economic growth. However, the effects of this mechanism varied widely across countries. And there was a clear gap in the understanding of how this mechanism works in coastal areas, the forward pos...

Saline municipal wastewater treatment is a challenging environmental issue in coastal cities, due to the discharge of saline water into the sewers. The present research article focuses on the phytoremediation of high saline municipal wastewater by Ruppia maritime, a widespread plant which can be found in saline medium such as traditional fish ponds, estuaries, tidal flats, salt pans, coastal pa...

An integrated approach using biomarkers and contaminant levels in mussels Mytilus galloprovincialis L. was employed to assess chemical contamination in Greek coastal waters within the framework of the MYTIMED program. Biomarkers (metallothioneins, glutathione S-transferase, catalase, acetylcholinesterase and RNA:DNA ratio) have been previously described in mussels caged at 14 sites in coastal a...

Mathematical models can help elucidate the spatio-temporal dynamics of epidemics as well as the impact of control measures. The gravity model for directly transmitted diseases is currently one of the most parsimonious models for spatial epidemic spread. This model uses distance-weighted, population size-dependent coupling to estimate host movement and disease incidence in metapopulations. The m...