The proliferation of artificial container habitats in urban areas has benefitted urban adaptable mosquito species globally. In areas where mosquitoes transmit viruses and parasites, it can promote vector population productivity and fuel mosquito-borne disease outbreaks. In Britain, storage of water in garden water butts is increasing, potentially expanding mosquito larval habitats and influenci...

The decrease in biodiversity due to increasing urbanization has been well documented, but the processes of colonization and maintenance of wildlife populations in urban areas remain poorly understood. We address this issue using 462 individuals from 10 urban populations of the ant Formica japonica in Kobe City, Japan. We sampled workers regardless of colony identity, genotyped them using 6 micr...

Urban area expansion is one of the most critical types of worldwide change, and most urban areas are experiencing increased growth in population and infrastructure development. Urban change leads to many changes in the daily activities of people living within an affected area. Many studies have suggested that urbanization and crime are related. However, they focused particularly on land uses, t...

yasuj is one the cities of the country that has had a heavy growth in recent years. the main objective of this study is t help develop improved urban services using inefficiencies of the current services. the important issue in planning urban infrastructures in estimating infrastructures based on population forecast, which is the focus of this study. the research method used in this study was a...

in a period of less than five decades, the urban residence has dramatically increased in iran. currently more than two thirds of the population live in city dwellings. this rapid urbanization has considerable impact on people’s mental health and psychiatric care. the main strategy of iran's national program of mental health has been the integration of mental health into the primary health ...

The ecodesign of urban environments at different spatial scales6 is an emerging topic fostered by the research on ecodesign and urban sustainability. Urban areas and environments are expanding worldwide. Statistics of urban population share reach figures of 70% in Europe, America and Oceania and 50% globally1. This ever-increasing urban population is likely to grow even more2. With this unprece...

The paper presents a wealth quartile analysis of the urban subset of the third round of Demographic Health Survey of India to unmask intra-urban nutrition disparities in women. Maternal thinness and moderate/ severe anaemia among women of the poorest urban quartile was 38.5% and 20% respectively and 1.5-1.8 times higher than the rest of urban population. Receipt of pre- and postnatal nutrition ...

INTRODUCTION Most of Australia’s large urban population centres are currently experiencing water shortages. Australia’s four largest urban centres have water storage volumes less than 50% of their capacities. This is due to an expansion in total urban water demand, in large part due to population growth, combined with reduced inflows to storages due to the ongoing drought in many parts of Austr...

India is highly vulnerable to natural disasters and climate extremes, which have significant consequences to the urban population. In fact, natural disasters are triggered by natural hazards, but its impact on a certain population depends mostly on human factors. In India what makes the urban population more vulnerable are the high population density; [...] the poor living conditions; and the u...