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Yifeng Yang, Jingshuai Luan, Jing Nie, Xin Zhang, Jiong Du, Gang Zhao, Lei Dong, Yong Fan, He Cui and Yubo Li
In the past, due to improper sludge treatment technology and the absence of treatment standards, some municipal sludge was simply dewatered and then sent to landfills, occupying a significant amount of land and posing a serious threat of secondary pollut...
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Md Shadman Sakib, Siam Alam, Shampa, Sonia Binte Murshed, Ripan Kirtunia, M. Shahjahan Mondal and Ahmed Ishtiaque Amin Chowdhury
The 400-year history of Dhaka says that the city once had several well-known natural canals (khals) that drained stormwater and graywater. In addition to city?s combined sewer system, these water bodies offered an essential natural drainage system that a...
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Yao Ding, Yin Wang, Shuming Yang, Xiaolong Zhao, Lili Ouyang and Chengyue Lai
The current standards used for nitrogen pollution evaluation are lacking, and scientific classification methods are needed for nitrogen pollution to improve water quality management capabilities. This study addresses the important issue of assessing surf...
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Medhavi Gupta, Manju Mohan and Shweta Bhati
Sporadic efforts have been introduced to control emissions in Delhi, but the air quality has declined further due to the rapid development of different sectors. In this study, the impact of various mitigation scenarios on air quality for PM10, ozone, and...
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Tatyana Tolstykh, Leyla Gamidullaeva, Nadezhda Shmeleva, Sergey Gromov and Alexander Ermolenko
In recent years, smart and ecological urbanism and transformations into the new models of city making have become a global mainstream. These are models of the smart city, the eco-city, and the eco-megacity. The article proposes a conceptual approach to t...
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Liang Zhou, Shaohua Wang and Zhibang Xu
The outcomes for emergency medical services (EMS) are highly dependent on space-time accessibility. Prior research describes the location of EMS needs with low accuracy and has not integrated a temporal analysis of the road network, which accounts for va...
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Agung Wahyudi, Yan Liu and Jonathan Corcoran
In the provision of urban residential areas, private land developers play critical roles in nearly all stages of the land development process. Despite their important role little is known about how the spatial decisions of individual developers collectiv...
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Hyowon Kim, Jaewoo Son, Seockheon Lee, Stef Koop, Kees Van Leeuwen, Young June Choi and Jeryang Park
Many cities are facing various water-related challenges caused by rapid urbanization and climate change. Moreover, a megacity may pose a greater risk due to its scale and complexity for coping with impending challenges. Infrastructure and governance also...
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Maria A. Rubio,Karen Sánchez,Pablo Richter,Jorge Pey,Ernesto Gramsch
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The total elemental composition and the water-soluble fraction of PM10 from three different urban areas in Santiago, Chile, from downtown to the suburbs, were investigated. PM10 samples collected during the month of May (mid-autumn in the Southern Hemisp...
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Iván Y. Hernández-Paniagua, Gema L. Andraca-Ayala, Ulises Diego-Ayala, Luis G. Ruiz-Suarez, Juan C. Zavala-Reyes, Silvia Cid-Juárez, Luis Torre-Bouscoulet, Laura Gochicoa-Rangel, Irma Rosas-Pérez and Arón Jazcilevich
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Thiago Nogueira, Pamela A. Dominutti, Adalgiza Fornaro and Maria De Fatima Andrade
The Metropolitan Area of São Paulo (MASP) is the largest megacity in South America, with 21 million inhabitants and more than 8 million vehicles. Those vehicles run on a complex fuel mix, with ethanol accounting for nearly 50% of all fuel sold. That has ...
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Javier Omar Castillo-Miranda,Ricardo Torres-Jadón,José Agustín García-Reynoso,Bertha E. Mar-Morales,Francisco Javier Rodríguez-Gómez,Luis Gerardo Ruiz-Suárez
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Air pollution is a threat to cultural heritage because it accelerates the natural deterioration of monuments, palaces, churches, and archaeological ruins, which have an irreplaceable value. In the Mexico City Metropolitan Area (MCMA), there are 19 968 bu...
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Bahareh Motamed, Azadeh Bitaraf
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High air pollution, car dependency, and increasing statistics of obesity and cardiovascular diseases are growing issues in the mega city of Tehran, the capital city of Iran. Therefore, investigating the quality of walkability as an effective solution for...
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A. S. ZAKEY,M. ABDEL WAHAB,J. B. C. PETTERSSON,M. J. GATARI,M. HALLQUIST
As an example of a developing megacity the Greater Cairo (GC) area in Egypt has been evaluated with respect to atmospheric particulate matter (PM) and lead (Pb). Particulate matter was collected during 2001-2002 in the two size fractions PM2.5 and PM1...
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Jinping Guan, Kai Zhang, Shuang Zhang, Yizhou Chen
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In the process of Chinese megacity suburbanization, central-city substandard housing is demolished. The government relocates residents to megacity peripheral relocatees? areas. So far, few studies have focused on captive transit riders and analyzed the d...
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Adib Ahmad Kurnia, Ernan Rustiadi, Akhmad Fauzi, Andrea Emma Pravitasari and Jan ?enka
The Jakarta metropolitan region (the Jakarta megacity), located in the fourth most populous country in the world (Indonesia), is the largest urban agglomeration in the Global South?continues to grow, especially in its outer suburbs (Bekasi Regency). The ...
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Na-Kyung Kim, Yong-Pyo Kim, Hye-Jung Shin and Ji-Yi Lee
It is imperative to understand the changes of the levels of air pollutants in Northeast Asia with respect to the changes of the emissions of air pollutants. In this study, we analyzed long-term trends of both the chemical composition of fine particles an...
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Mikhail Varentsov, Hendrik Wouters, Vladimir Platonov and Pavel Konstantinov
Urbanization leads to distinct meteorological features of urban environments, and one the best-known is the urban heat island (UHI) effect. For megacities, these features become mesoscale phenomena (scale = 10 km) that are amplified by the tropospheric f...
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Jorge E. Pachón, Boris Galvis, Oscar Lombana, Luis Gabriel Carmona, Sandra Fajardo, Alexander Rincón, Sandra Meneses, Rafael Chaparro, Robert Nedbor-Gross and Barron Henderson
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