This paper examines spatial variations in exposure to toxic air pollution from industrial facilities in urban areas of the United States, using geographic microdata from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Risk‐Screening Environmental Indicators project. We find that average exposure in an urban area is positively correlated with the extent of racial ...

0 In This Issue Family Involvement ............................................. 1 Program Showcase: Family, Peers, School, and Communtiy .............................................. 1 A National Survey of School/CommunityBased Organization Partnerships ................... 1 Peer Group Influence and Academic Aspirations Across Cultural/Ethnic Groups .. 3 Developing Immigrant Parents’ Computer...

In Sub-Saharan Africa, unprecedented population growth, concomitant with limited industrialisation and job creation, have changed the configurations of rural-urban linkages in recent decades. Indeed, as primate cities do not act strong engines territorial dynamics are rapidly being reshaped by renewed flows people, goods, services information within between economic sectors, rural urban areas. ...

Bruce Frayne is Assistant Professor with the International Development Program, School of Environmental Enterprise and Development (SEED), Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada n2l 3g2; email [email protected] Using recent multi-city survey data, the analysis demonstrates that informal rural–urban and urban–urban food transfers make i...

Urban greenspaces have an immense contribution to the social, environmental, and economic spectrums of sustainable development. These three are also foundation Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2030. Thus, this interdependence nature offers opportunity study linkages between urban SDGs targets for acknowledging importance achieving To understand linkages, follows a qualitative approach. In a...

The goal of the current study was to explore notions of masculinity and their linkages to HIV/AIDS among Owambo men and women in Namibia, where an estimated one-fifth of 15-49 year-olds have acquired HIV. Thirteen open-ended interviews and three focus groups were conducted with 50 male and female participants aged 19-50 in rural and urban Namibia. Qualitative analysis revealed six central theme...