Countries considering high-speed rail (HSR) developments face enormous challenges because of their high deployment cost, environmental obstacles, political opposition, and potentially adverse effects on society. Nevertheless, HSR services are importantly sustainable that can have positive transformative the economic growth a nation. This paper systematically reviews classifies impact areas depl...

Since 2008, Western countries are going through a deep economic crisis whose health impacts seem to be fundamentally counter-cyclical: when economic conditions worsen, so does health, and mortality tends to rise. While a growing number of studies have presented evidence on the effect of crises on the average population health, a largely neglected aspect of research is the impact of crises and t...

Municipal water systems provide crucial services for human well-being, and will undergo a major transformation this century following global technological, socioeconomic and environmental changes. Future demand scenarios integrating these drivers over multidecadal planning horizons are needed to develop effective adaptation strategy. This paper presents a new long-term scenario modeling framewo...

Anthropogenic climate change appears to be increasing the frequency, duration and intensity of extreme weather events. Such events have already had substantial impacts on socioeconomic development and population health. Climate change's most profound impacts are likely to be on food, health systems and water. This paper explores how climate change will affect food, human health and water in Chi...

Assessments of the potential human health impacts of climate change are needed to inform the development of adaptation strategies, policies, and measures to lessen projected adverse impacts. We developed methods for country-level assessments to help policy makers make evidence-based decisions to increase resilience to current and future climates, and to provide information for national communic...

Economic impact analysis (EIA) of outdoor recreation can provide critical social information concerning the utilization of natural resources. Outdoor recreation and other non-consumptive uses of resources are viewed as environmentally friendly alternatives to extractive-type industries. While outdoor recreation can be an appropriate use of resources, it generates both beneficial and adverse soc...

This Minor Field Study was carried out during November and December in 2011 in the Mount Elgon District in Western Kenya. The objective was to examine nine small-scale farming household ́s land use and socioeconomic situation when they have joined a nongovernmental organization (NGO) project, which specifically targets small-scale farming households to improve land use system and socioeconomic s...

Rigorous empirical research on the socioeconomic effects of AIDS is important for developing appropriate strategies to mitigate impacts and ultimately improve living standards. This paper provides a broad overview of the challenges in studying the impact of the epidemic on individuals, households and economies, drawing examples from existing studies. We start with a discussion of macro-economic...

With a unique eco-environmental system, the QinghaiTibet Plateau plays a fundamental role in safeguarding the local socioeconomic development and has an irreplaceable position in ensuring eco-environmental security in China and in the whole of Asia. Over the past 30 years, obvious climate change, predominantly global warming, has an extremely remarkable impact on the cryosphere of the plateau, ...