Weather extremes, such as heatwaves and torrential rainfalls, are becoming more frequent and more intense across the United States under climate change. In late September of this year, flash-flooding ...
Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Suzanne is a content marketer, writer, and ...
As China continues to boom in the coming decades, it would be well advised to think big. Big cities, that is. So far the migration from rural areas that has driven China's growth has fed the rise of ...
Joan Clos is Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) and Secretary-General of the Habitat III Conference. December 2015, No. 3 Vol. LII, Sustainable Energy We ...
As China's economy shifts from rapid growth to high-quality development, the policy of new urbanization has become key to unlocking domestic demand and promoting balanced regional development. Given ...
The growth of cities is driven largely by the economic prosperity that they help create. But today cities are growing at unprecedented and challenging speeds. A series of prototypes have been piloted ...
Image: Shutterstock Urbanization and COVID-19 More and more people have been moving to cities in recent decades. United Nations predictions find that, while 55 percent of the world’s population ...
05 June 2011 MUSCAT - Within the past forty years, the population in Oman has been growing and as a consequence the demand for land has increased tremendously. To analyse and discuss current ...
New research suggests that while there is an association between income and diversity of medium to large mammals, another factor is stronger: 'urban intensity', or the degree to which wild lands have ...
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