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Brantley Liddle
The level of world urbanization has crossed the 50% mark, and nearly all future population growth is projected to occur in cities. Cities are disproportionately wealthy, but are associated with poverty, too. Addressing the dual challenges of urbanization...
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Brantley Liddle
The level of world urbanization has crossed the 50% mark, and nearly all future population growth is projected to occur in cities. Cities are disproportionately wealthy, but are associated with poverty, too. Addressing the dual challenges of urbanization...
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Sugeng Hadi Utomo, Lutfi Asnan Qodri, Bagus Shandy Narmaditya, Agus Wibowo
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A rapid increase in the world’s population over the last century has triggered the transformation of the earth surface, especially in urban areas, where more than half of the global population live. Ghana is no exception and a high population growt...
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Bright Addae and Natascha Oppelt
A rapid increase in the world?s population over the last century has triggered the transformation of the earth surface, especially in urban areas, where more than half of the global population live. Ghana is no exception and a high population growth rate...
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Ayse Saime Doner
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Firms benefit some external effects resulting from the concentration of economic activities in certain regions. These effects called ?agglomeration economies? or ?agglomeration externalities? are mainly divided into three categories ? MAR, Jacobs and Por...
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Lingying Pan, Zheng Guo, Pei Liu, Linwei Ma and Zheng Li
China has been experiencing a rapid urbanization and industrialization progress with continuous increase in primary energy consumption. Meanwhile, China?s changing economic and society structure also introduces huge uncertainty to its future energy deman...
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Sicong Liu, Yinbao Zhang, Jianzhong Liu, Xinjia Zhang and Xiaoshuang Huang
Myanmar is among the regions with the most frequent activities of International Non-Government Organizations (INGOs). Analyzing the spatio-temporal patterns of these activities holds crucial importance for optimizing organizational coordination and enhan...
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Jizhong Shao, Guan Liu, Hong Yuan, Qize Song, Minge Yang, Dan Luo, Xiaosi Zhang, Yanran Tan and Yuxin Zhang
Following economic growth in the past three decades, rapid urbanization has caused many pronounced issues, such as spatial scarcity and cultural discontinuity, in Chinese historical and cultural cities. In order to better deal with the diversification of...
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Kyudae Shim, Eduardo Berrettini and Yong-Gyun Park
Because of population growth, rapid urbanization, and climate change, many water supply utilities globally struggle to provide water that is safe to drink. A particular problem is the aging of the water supply facilities, which is exacerbated by their in...
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Marianna D?Ercole, Maurizio Righetti, Gema Sakti Raspati, Paolo Bertola and Rita Maria Ugarelli
The efficient and effective management of existing water distribution systems (WDSs) faces challenges related to aging of infrastructure, population growth, extended urbanization, climate change impacts and environmental pollution. Therefore, there is a ...
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Marianna D?Ercole, Maurizio Righetti, Gema Sakti Raspati, Paolo Bertola and Rita Maria Ugarelli
The efficient and effective management of existing water distribution systems (WDSs) faces challenges related to aging of infrastructure, population growth, extended urbanization, climate change impacts and environmental pollution. Therefore, there is a ...
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Feng Dong, Jingyun Li, Yue-Jun Zhang and Ying Wang
Against the backgrounds of emission reduction targets promised by China, it is crucial to explore drivers of CO2 emissions comprehensively for policy making. In this study, Shandong Province in China is taken as an example to investigate drivers in carbo...
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Sudha Panda, Manjari Chakraborty, S.K. Misra
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India has experienced phenomenal growth in urbanization in the last few decades putting massive pressure on basic infrastructure and services. The objective of this paper is to create a composite social sustainable index for India which will help us to u...
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Mohammad Shahidul Hasan Swapan, Atiq Uz Zaman, Tahmina Ahsan and Fahmid Ahmed
Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, is the eleventh largest megacity city in the world, with a population of 18.2 million people living in an area of 1528 km2. This city profile traces the trajectories of its urban development to becoming a mega...
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Mohammad Shahidul Hasan Swapan, Atiq Uz Zaman, Tahmina Ahsan and Fahmid Ahmed
Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, is the eleventh largest megacity city in the world, with a population of 18.2 million people living in an area of 1528 km2. This city profile traces the trajectories of its urban development to becoming a megacity and ch...
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Hatem Ibrahim, Ashraf M. Salama, Florian Wiedmann, Reem Awwaad
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Abu Dhabi and Doha have evolved rapidly in the twentieth century due to the investment of oil and gas revenues. The fast economic growth resulted in an extensive period of urbanization. The various urban dynamics had a great impact with regards to new ho...
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Michiel de Bok, Frank van Oort
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A growing body of empirical urban economic studies suggests that agglomeration and accessibility externalities are important sources of the uneven distribution of economic activities across cities and regions. At the same time, little is known about the ...
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Haiyan Zhang, Michinori Uwasu, Keishiro Hara and Helmut Yabar
This paper introduces a sustainability assessment method for the rapidly urbanizing Yangtze River Delta in China addressing the role of land use pattern. We first calculated the sustainability component scores of 16 cities in the area in 2000 and 2005. T...
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Keiko Hirota
Asian countries are facing major air pollution problems due to rapid economic growth, urbanization and motorization. Mortality and respiratory diseases caused by air pollution are believed to be endemic in major cities of these countries. Regulations and...
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