Finally, urbanisation impacts cultural ecosystem services such as recreation and spiritual relationships with nature (Thiagarajah et al., 2015). The period of rapid global urbanisation over the past 70 years has seen a simultaneous decrease in many types of outdoor activity (Pergams and Zaradic,...
A common scenario in health facilities in urban areas involves the following diagnostic process: a patient’s arrival, triage, questionnaire and physical examination, presumptive diagnosis, request for laboratory analyses, taking of the sample, its transport to the laboratory, its processing, transmission...
Research in East Asia and Singapore as a whole is strongest in the physical sciences and engineering, the fields that relate to urbanisation, construction, transport, communications, energy and also the environmental implications of development. That’s where the research and development investment has...
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For example, in China rapid urbanisation brought increased private transport, relocation of residents and inadequate service provision [88,173]. Even within the same geographic and political context, there could be difference in mobility patterns (mobility cultures) [171]. Thus, local context creates...
sustainability Article Spatial–Temporal Patterns and Driving Factors of Rapid Urban Land Development in Provincial China: A Case Study of Jiangsu Qingke Yang 1,2,3 ID , Xuejun Duan 1,3,* and Lei Wang 1,3 1 Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing ...