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Jan. 26, 2024 An international group of leading scientists call for an urgent change in the governance of urban expansion as the world's cities continue to grow at unprecedented ...
Oct. 12, 2021 Urban areas may be at greater risk for precipitation-triggered landslides than rural areas, according to a new study that could help improve landslide predictions and hazard and risk assessments. ...
Feb. 22, 2022 Contrary to popular belief, China's massive emigration from rural areas to cities has been shown to have a positive effect on China's carbon stocks. Urbanization can even play a role in ...
Jan. 27, 2022 Researchers studied the Chesapeake Bay watershed to evaluate the combined effects of changes to climate and land use on runoff and pollutants in a rapidly developing watershed that is a tributary to ...
Aug. 10, 2021 A new study offers an outline of the requirements and research challenges involved in designing effective policies to meet sustainability goals for ...
July 6, 2022 Extreme heat events could become more intense and frequent both locally and globally, increasing the risk of harm to health and global economies, according to a new ...
Oct. 27, 2023 As urbanization advances around the globe, the quality of the urban physical environment will become increasingly critical to human well-being and to sustainable development initiatives. However, ...
July 13, 2021 Low-income neighborhoods and communities with higher Black, Hispanic and Asian populations experience significantly more urban heat than wealthier and predominantly white neighborhoods within a vast ...
May 25, 2022 About 41 million people in live in U.S. Atlantic coastline counties. There isn't an effective way to identify the impact of urban growth on tidal flats -- the guardians of beachfront ...
Oct. 25, 2022 Researchers argue that greenbelts almost always work in curbing sprawl, particularly in larger cities. It looks at 60 cities in Europe, half of them with a greenbelt, half without, and uses ...