Climate change and urbanization are converging to challenge city drainage infrastructure due to their adverse impacts on precipitation extremes and the environment of urban areas. Sustainable drainage systems have gained growing public interest in recent years, as a result of its positive effects on water quality and quantity issues and additional recreational amenities perceived in the urban l...

In China, as in many other countries undergoing rapid economic growth, increasing socio-economic inequalities and environmental damage are the main threats to sustainable urbanization. Drawing on international experiences, this paper describes the key issues in urban change in China and identifies the types of policy approaches that could support more sustainable urbanization. Urbanization and ...

in the recent decades, urbanization has affected social, economical, cultural, political and physical aspects of human life-style. presentation of sustainable development as one of the goals of the third millennium is derived from the effects of cities on earth and on different aspects of human life. undoubtedly, talking about sustainability and sustainable development would be impossible witho...

nowadays, issues of environment degradation sourcing in human actions and economic activities are of crucial worldwide subjects that all societies are concerned with them. its importance is not only of the natural resources systems’ aspects, but it is also crucial from the socio-economic point of view. so, environmental subjects have considerable role in sustainable development process. iran as...

Abstract Within the next 30 years, cities will grow dramatically. Rural areas become new urban centers, and open spaces transform into cityscapes. Population growth, demolition of natural landscapes, urbanization are fuelling already imminent threat climate change. Indigenous structures with their own “critical regionalism” touch on a wide range cultural, economic, societal aspects. The authors...

The relationship between urbanization, economic growth, and water use change is one of the key issues for China’s sustainable development, as rapid urbanization and continuous economic growth are accompanied by a steady water stress. Thus, we applied a cointegration test and a VECM (vector error correction model) Granger causality test to investigate the causal relationship between the urbaniza...

Global large-scale urbanization and climate change have become indisputable scientific facts yet are unresolved issues, a common concern for mankind. The relationship between these two topics is unclear it not known how to deal appropriately at the level with in process of urbanization. Further exploration science, management practice, needed achieve global regional sustainable development. Thi...

Every spatial unit of human occupation is part of a network structuring an extensive process of urbanization in the Amazon territory. Multi-resolution remote sensing data were used to identify and map human presence and activities in the Sustainable Forest District of Cuiabá-Santarém highway (BR-163), west of Pará, Brazil. The limits of spatial units of human occupation were mapped based on dig...