Much too often, decisions are made without a thorough understanding of all the factors involved and their interrelations, as has been the case for many governmentally funded construction projects in Norway. The paper investigates the repercussions of connecting remote island villages to larger cities,...
athe greatest wave of voluntary migration inhuman history transformed china cities,and the global economy ,in a single generation .It has also created a huge task for those cities,by rasing the expectation of the next generation of migrants from the countryside,and of second-generation migrant chil...
Ranking port cities with high exposure and vulnerability to climate extremes: Exposure estimates. Technical report, OECD Environment Working Papers, No. 1, OECD Publishing. Ní Rathaille, A., and R. Raine. 2011. Seasonality in the excystment of Alexandrium minutum and Alexandrium tamarense in ...
The increasing exposure of cities to the effects of volcanic eruptions: a global survey countries, has led to increasing global exposure to a variety of natural hazards, not the least of which are risks posed to large cities by volcanoes... D.K. Chester and M. Degg and A.M. Duncan and...
Driving a car on a road in norway. vehicle point-of-view driving over the bridge. Premium Add to collection Premium Premium Premium Premium Premium Premium 4K 00:08 Aerial tracking shot of a car crossing the centennial bridge connecting the quad cities in illinois and iowa ...
Women have not achieved equality in any of the 145 nations included in the survey, says the report. Women came closest to equality in four Northern European nations – Iceland, Norway, Finland and Sweden. Ireland ranks No. 5. At the bottom of the women’s gender ratings are Yemen, ...
Even expanding cities are perceived to need much space. Nevertheless, they take up only 1% of global land57. Similarly, van Zalk and Behrens found a nearly fourfold increase in land use in the US from 2020 to 2050 based on the NREL 80% renewable energy scenario3,58. When predicting land...
As a result, a fifth of automobiles sold in Norway today are electric, and 230 million electric bikes have replaced gasoline motorcycles in China’s largest cities [9]. Additionally, EV sales set a new high in 2021, growing by four times their market share from the previous year to account...
Another matter is the type of buildings and their materials that influences people’s perceptions of QoL, such as building density, resulting for example in increasing temperature and related discomfort in large cities. The built environment also includes structures entailing amenities, such as services...
aTraffic congestion (拥堵)affects people throughout the world Traffic jams cause smog in dozens of cities across both the developed and developing world. In the U. S., commuters (通勤人员)spend an average of a full working week each year sitting in traffic jams, according to the Texas Trans...