Climate change and urbanization – how should the water infrastructure be adapted?Conventional urban water servicing has successfully provided cities with clean water, sanitation and flood protection. Traditional approaches are unsuited to address future challenges like climate change and modern urban ...
With the development of economy, more and more tall buildings are being built in large and medium-sized cities across the urbanization, however, one thing should not be neglected---environmentalprotection. It is unscientific to judge a city’s modernization level by thenumber of high buildings. ...
Urbanization and climate change are contributing to severe flooding globally, damaging infrastructure, disrupting economies, and undermining human well-being. Approaches to make cities more resilient to floods are emerging, notably with the design of flood-resilient structures, but relatively little is kno...
How does drought cause desertification? How does urbanization cause desertification? How does desertification affect biodiversity? What are the effects of desertification in the Sahel? Does desertification cause climate change? How does climate change affect agriculture? How might climate change affect biome...
Such a pandemic is widely forecast to occur though the timing is unknowable; it will be too late to prevent once underway, and it has the potential to cause catastrophic damage throughout society. Increasing urbanization also exposes society to both higher levels of social unrest and disruption ...
[42,43]. As a public product in the city that is inseparable from residents’ lives, urban air quality plays an increasingly prominent role in the urbanization process, workforce migration and settlement intentions [44,45]. Severe smog intensifies immigrants’ perceived health risks and has ...
In India, for example, heatwaves and rapid urbanization have led to a big rise in the use of air-conditioning units, adding to CO2 emissions. So, architects, looking for a sustainable cooling solution, are copying an ancient lattice (框架) design, used in old buildings like the Taj Mahal...
So, our findings imply that population policy might be a valuable weapon in the fight against climate change, all while keeping the economy growing. Concurrently, human activities have produced half of the world's total CO₂ emissions since the Industrial Revolution, and urbanization has been ...
Secondly, habitat protection and restoration are vital for species survival.Many endangered species are threatened by habitat loss due to deforestation, urbanization, and agricultural expansion. Therefore, preserving and restoring their natural habitats is crucial. This involves establishing protected areas su...
Over the past 50 years, the number of hunting licenses in California has been on a rapid decline,falling 70% from more than 760,000 in the 1970s to under 268,000 in 2020—even as the state’s population has skyrocketed, according to The Mercury News. Urbanization and strict gun laws, ...