This paper assesses the relationship among energy consumption, financial development, economic growth, industrialization and urbanization in Tunisia from 1971 to 2008. The autoregressive distributed lag bounds testing approach to cointegration and Granger causality tests is employed for the analysis. The result confirms the existence of long-run relationship among energy consumption, economic g...

urbanization with all its semblances, complexities, and problems has been able to have profound effects on the behavior and action of citizens. this study intends to examine the issue of urbanization trends growth sociologically through survey method among women. it seems that in terms of acceptance, internalization, and representing parts of cultural situation, values and urbanization norms, w...

Urbanization in Bangladesh takes the form of rapid growth of urban population, largely due to natural growth and rural-urban migration. The hierarchy of urban system includes both induced and spontaneous growth centres. Large numbers of spontaneous growth centres grow due to rapid population growth as well as growing importance of certain local resource that induces economic growth. Trickle dow...

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...

There have been extensive studies exploring the relationship between agglomeration economies and economic growth. However, far less attention is paid to the nonlinear relationship of urbanization economies–firm productivity nexus, especially in developing countries. This paper aims to explore how urbanization economies impact the total factor productivity (TFP) of research and development (R&D)...

The rapidly increasing rate of urbanization has a major impact on the ecology and evolution of species. While increased temperatures are a key aspect of urbanization ("urban heat islands"), we have very limited knowledge whether this generates differentiation in thermal responses between rural and urban populations. In a common garden experiment, we compared the thermal performance curves (TPCs...

This paper is mainly devoted to lay an empirical foundation for further research on complex spatial dynamics of two-population interaction. Based on the US population census data, a rural and urban population interaction model is developed. Subsequently a logistic equation on percentage urban is derived from the urbanization model so that spatial interaction can be connected mathematically with...

Sustainable urbanization policies and strategies are posited as a major tool by which to achieve the sustainable development of growing towns and cities. A major challenge for sustainable urbanization policies and strategies is how to address the complexity of urbanization, especially the ongoing growth of informal settlements and slums in developing countries. It is acknowledged that those liv...

BACKGROUND The frequent outbreak of environmental threats in China has resulted in increased criticism regarding the health effects of China's urbanization. Urbanization is a double-edged sword with regard to health in China. Although great efforts have been made to investigate the mechanisms through which urbanization influences health, the effect of both economic development and urbanization ...