This commentary debates on the role of multiple socioeconomic drivers fringe land degradation (including, but not limited to, population and social dynamics, economic polarization, developmental policies), as a novel contribution to desertification assessment in Southern European metropolitan regions, recognized hotspot at global scale. Expanding rapidly all over world, regions are geographical...

Since the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires in which 173 lives were lost, two-thirds of whom died their homes, question what a home prepared for bushfire looks like has been repeatedly raised. The 2019/2020 fires saw us not much further advanced. This paper seeks to consolidate is known about behavior, its influence upon structures, and, through this data, infer improved standards practice retrofit...

During 2013-2015, the percentage of children and teens aged 4-17 years who had ever received a diagnosis of ADHD was significantly higher among boys than among girls within all urbanization levels. Among boys, those living in small metro and nonmetro micropolitan areas were more likely to have received a diagnosis of ADHD (17.4% and 16.4%, respectively) than were those living in large central (...

Min Ma National University of Defense Technology Department of Astronautical Technology Changsha, 410073, China Abstract. A single fringe phase shifting technique is presented for extracting the whole-field displacement distribution from single fringe patterns. By making a small modification in the traditional Fourier transform (FFT) method for fringe processing, the proposed method is capable ...

Abstract Urban sprawl symptoms are characterized by the phenomenon of expansion urban functional areas into fringe areas. The residential area Bumi Tamalanrea Permai Makassar showed symptoms, where dynamics densification and dualistic region’s growth have exceeded supporting capacity basic availability infrastructure in area. This article was intended to explore processes, activities, analysis ...

Lake areas in Chinese urban fringes are under increasing pressure of urbanization. Consequently, the conflict between rapid urban sprawl and he maintenance of water bodies in such areas urgently needs to be addressed. An integrated GIS-based analysis system (IGAS) for supporting and-use management of lake areas in urban fringes was developed in this paper. The IGAS consists of modules of land-u...