The developing world is rapidly urbanizing. One of the challenges associated with this growth will be to supply water to growing cities of the developing world. Traditional planning tools fare poorly over 30–50 year time horizons because these systems are changing so rapidly. Models that hold land use, economic patterns, governance systems or technology static over a long planning horizon could...

In a period of less than twenty years, China has become a major actor in the implementation of waste-to-energy technologies for managing municipal solid wastes (MSW); at the present time, an estimated 15% (23 million tons of MSW) are processed in over 100 WTE plants. China is also an exception to the general rule that nations with relatively low GDP per capita rely exclusively on landfilling. T...

The present study attempts to evaluate the urban energy balance components concerning increasing urbanization and artificial surfaces over Indian metropolitan cities during 2000–2018 winter seasons by using Landsat 7 8 satellite imageries. results indicate that estimated ranges of fluxes are in typical values reported earlier literature global cities. sensible heat flux (SHF) increased consider...

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