One of the most comprehensive tools to show the changing trend in urban ecosystems is by providing periodic State of Environment Report (SoER) for cities in national programs, wherein it is quite essential to have a truthful and realistic view of the current state of the environment as well as significant human impacts. Developing countries like Iran are faced with incoherent and deficient SoER...

BACKGROUND Urbanization is a process which alters the structure and function of urban environments. The alteration in the quality of urban environmental conditions has significant implications for health. This applies both to the ecology of insect vectors that may transmit diseases and the burden of disease. STUDY OBJECTIVES To investigate the relationship between malaria and infectious diarr...

visibility is an important factor of environmental quality that has various influences on the quality of neighborhood. this paper aimed to find the relationship between urban form and visual quality. a public space with a spatial configuration in one of bushehr city's neighborhoods was selected as the case study. bushehr city is surrounded by urban development and the sea. compact urban sp...

BACKGROUND Many environmental factors have been independently associated with preterm birth (PTB). However, exposure is not isolated to a single environmental factor, but rather to many positive and negative factors that co-occur. The environmental quality index (EQI), a measure of cumulative environmental exposure across all US counties from 2000-2005, was used to investigate associations betw...

Environmental quality is an abstract concept resulting from both human and natural factors operating at different spatial scales. In urban areas the local scale is dominated by individual buildings, streets and trees, but regional scale influences may include the whole city and beyond. This paper demonstrates the ability of current satellite-based sensing systems to depict parameters of urban e...

Urban development can impact environmental quality and ecosystem services well beyond urban extent. Many methods to map urban areas have been developed and used in the past, but most have simply tried to map existing extent of urban development, and all have been single-scale techniques. The method presented here uses a clustering approach to look beyond the extant urban area at multiple scales...

the issue of urban decline in city centers and horizontal expansion of the city and its consequences is a challenge in sustainable development of the cities. in this regard, new approaches were shaped to define career planning, urban design and urban environmental quality concerns in new-urbanism pattern. the critical approach to modern urban pattern was formed based on scattered, non-human and...

bus rapid transit is an innovative, high capacity, lower cost public transit solution in metropolitan cities. idea is to dedicate lanes for quick and efficient transport of passengers to their destinations. in the present investigation the environmental impact assessment of bus rapid transit  in tehran metropolitan city is brought out. for this purpose bus rapid transit lane no. 10 is investiga...