Drawing from three phases of a social research programme between 2002 and 2008, this paper proposes a framework for underpinning the development of urban water transitions policy and city-scale benchmarking at the macro scale. Through detailed historical, contemporary and futures research involving Australian cities, a transitions framework is proposed, presenting a typology of six city states,...

In constantly expanding its fields of application, sustainable development is becoming the basic approach to planning and governing twenty-first century city. This article examines urban policies through lens utopian thinking indicates opposing scholarly interpretations modern utopianism. On one hand, this approached as dreaming fantasizing about future; on other, it well-calculated activities....

This paper deals with the assessment of how far into the future a time series can be safely predicted using inductive modelling and extrapolation techniques. Three different time series are used to demonstrate the viability of the approaches presented in the paper: one time series representing the water demand of the city of Barcelona, another characterizing the water demand of a section of the...

Using the recently developed 3D GIS (Geographic Information System) and related visualisation technologies, we have created a digital diorama of an entire historical city, which can be used to virtually travel through different realistic landscapes at different times in the history. The digital diorama called Virtual Kyoto is the virtual geographic environment of the past, present, and future o...

METHODS. Baseline characteristics determined to be potential predictors of asthma severity were examined: demographics, asthma symptoms, medication use, healthcare utilization, early life medical history, family history, allergen exposure and allergic disease, and pollutant exposure. Bivariate andmultivariate analyseswere performed by using logistic regression to examine the association of pred...

AirScope is a micro-scale modeling system as well as a micro-scale air quality monitoring system, which comprises as a micro-scale air quality management system. Importance of micro-scale air monitoring is rising due to the concern about environment near residential places. Traditional monitoring methods are providing overall air quality indexes. However, these methods have limited functionalit...

Cécile Viboud, Mark A. Miller, Bryan T. Grenfell, Ottar N. Bjørnstad, Lone Simonsen While air travel contributes to the spread of infl uenza epidemics, the magnitude of impact is not clear compared to other factors—a crucial issue when considering a fl ight ban in the context of pandemic planning. Recent modeling efforts simulating the spread of pandemic infl uenza have concluded that such an i...

OBJECTIVE To understand the critical factors that are likely to influence road traffic fatality rates in large cities around the world in the next few decades. MATERIAL AND METHODS Road traffic fatality data for 56 cities around the world and for cities with a population of greater than 100,000 in the USA were collected and analysed to understand factors affecting differences in fatality rate...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Children living in the inner city are particularly vulnerable to asthma. While we know much about factors that affect near-term outcomes in inner-city children, there is little evidence to guide clinicians on what to expect in the coming years, especially in preschool children. The purpose of our study was to determine which clinical and environmental factors are predictive ...