The globe is at a crossroads in terms of the urban heat island effect, with rising surface temperatures due to urbanization and an expanding built environment. This cause-and-effect connection may be linked weather-related dangers, natural disasters, disease outbreaks. Urbanization industrialization will not lead secure sustainable future. Finding solutions problems such as effect forefront sci...

Phenology is an indicator of the impact of climate on vegetation. As the representation of human activities, urbanization affects vegetation phenology by changing the local climate such as temperature, humidity, wind speed, etc. Recent studies starts to focus on the impacts of urbanization intensity on phenology. In order to understand the relationship between urbanization intensity and phenolo...

Rapid urbanization, and particularly the associated problems of urban poverty, unsustainable development and environmental degradation, pose an enormous challenge to many developing countries. In the last decade more foreign aid has been diverted to urbanization and green city development. This paper studies aid’s implementation strategies and effectiveness by investigating ‘what works in forei...

Many local scale studies have shown that bats respond to water quality degradation or urbanization in a species-specific manner. However, few have separated the effects of urbanization versus water quality degradation on bats, in single city or single watershed case studies. Across North Carolina, USA, we used the standardized North American Bat Monitoring Program mobile transect protocol to su...

Abstract Heavy precipitation (HP) events can be preceded by moist heatwaves (HWs; i.e., hot and humid weather), both intensified urbanization. However, the effect of HWs on increasing urban HP remains unknown. Based statistical analyses daily weather observations ERA5 reanalysis data, we herein investigate urban-intensified dividing summer into NoHW- HW-preceded in Yangtze River delta (YRD) agg...

a r t i c l e i n f o This paper examines the impacts of industrialization and urbanization on CO 2 emissions in China using nonparametric additive regression models and provincial panel data from 1990 to 2011. The empirical results show that there is an inverted U-shaped nonlinear relationship between industrialization and CO 2 emissions in the three regions in China. Urbanization follows an i...

Energy demand growth in Asian countries is predicted to be the highest world. One of drivers energy urbanization. Along with growing urban areas, public infrastructure, such as streetlights, also expanding. Unfortunately, conservation measures facilities are commonly constrained by budget limitations local governments, while potential participation service companies (ESCO) requires regulation r...

OBJECTIVES To explore the association between the place of death and the level of urbanization within the communities where the elderly were residing at the time of their death. METHODS A retrospective, population-based, cross-sectional study set in Taiwan, involving a total of 697,814 eligible deaths occurred between 1995 and 2004, among elderly people (aged 65 years or above). RESULTS Aft...

oncerns about urbanization and economic developthe question of how the causality works. Economic de_ ment go hand in hand, for a number of reasons. velopment makes it possible for people to produce more. Beyond the question of whether urbanization is a cause Why should this possibility lead to urbanization? Can or a consequence of development, it is the backdrop for our understanding of the lin...

Global urbanization is a vital process shaping terrestrial ecosystems but its effects on forest soil carbon (C) dynamics are still not well defined. To clarify the effects of urbanization on soil organic carbon (SOC) variation, 306 soil samples were collected and analyzed under two urban–rural gradients, defined according to human disturbance time and ring road development in Changchun, northea...