2021). Thus, one of the most important ways to encourage the optimisation of our environment may be to put the government’s environmental attention into practice. The underlying mechanism and impact of the government’s environmental emphasis are first examined theoretically in this article. Next,...
A change of built environment in low-income communities is linked with a change in their social processes. However, the influences of this change on the broader physical systems like energy remains understudied in the literature. Known drivers of residential energy use at a macro-level are income...
Urbanisation and the Built Environment: Exploring How the Built Environment Can Enhance the Health and Wellbeing of the People Living in Urban SlumsRecently, there is a phenomenal growth in the rate of the urbanisation of most countries of the world. As revealed by statistics, more than 50% ...
Nevertheless, animal husbandry provides livelihoods to millions of people in pastoral areas and has the potential capacity to meet the rapidly increasing global demand for livestock products which is stimulated by growing populations, urbanisation and rising disposable incomes (FAO, 2015). In this ...
Urbanisationis mainly visible in the cities, which have crucial influence on the safety of people, environment, resources and urban infrastructure. This is due to the fact that a big part of the economy's and private assets, as well as h...
Projections from the UN Population Division are that there will be more than 9 billion of us by 2050. These are stark figures, almost unimaginable; they present huge challenges to sustainability, environment, urbanisation, health and poverty....
What's the true environment impact of going electric? Electrified public transport is hugely beneficial to the environment, primarily in terms of the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, nitrogen oxides, particles and noise. A concrete example is Gothenburg, which at the end of 2020 im...
In 2021, one in five people in Africa was affected by hunger, and the continent had the highest prevalence of undernourished people globally. We argue that food systems in Africa can be more resilient if their development includes climate adaptation.
Urbanisation level (Urb), which is measured by the share of urban population; education investment (Edu), which is measured by the national fiscal expenditure on education in each province; technological innovation expenditure (Tec), which is measured by the share of science and technology in ...
Since then, coupled with a strong housing demand released by housing reforms and rapid urbanisation, the commercial mortgage sector has witnessed unprecedented growth (Deng et al., Citation2011). Furthermore, interest rates of mortgages considerably and progressively decreased from around 15% in 1996 ...