Urbanisation reduces the abundance and diversity of airborne microbes - but what does that mean for our health? A systematic review - ScienceDirectEmily J. Flies aLaurence J. Clarke b cBarry W. Brook a dPenelope Jones eScience of The Total Environment...
How does the Government and the upcoming URA Masterplan accommodate the drawbacks of greater urbanisation particularly rising temperatures, and how does it gel with our desire to leave a liveable Singapore behind for our children and their children’s children? If the Government is not finished ...
In China, a devaluation of rurality in the nation’s ongoing process of urbanisation has long underpinned many rural individuals’ view that they are being left behind developmentally and that they must work to improve themselves and their circumstances (Xiang, 2007; Kipnis, 2011). Simultaneously,...
To take an obvious example, if the profits of slavery in the Southern states of America were used to invest in factories in the Northern states (as they were), does giving the land to the freed slaves in 1865 really signify the end of the injustice that situation produced? Surely the pro...
12 What is significant to this paper is both the process of villagisation (relocating people on a local level) which implies changes in the economic activity and the pattern of population settlements that are more likely to take the form of urbanisation, and the direction of the movement of ...
This does not mean that non-profit organisations in Geneva cannot propose any innovative ideas but rather that the canton or city puts itspatternon them. Furthermore, what could be identified as bottom-up initiatives at first glance actually correspond to city policy: Citizens are “encouraged” ...
Does this mean that there could have been errors in dry bulb readings due to evaporation from the thermometers?? Sea water temperatures were taken from samples obtained by means of a Met Office issue rubber "bucket" which looked like a short (about 300mm x 70mm dia.) length of very heavy...
Construction machinery and infrastructure assets - especially around the construction of power and water facilities - were particularly targeted by buyers as the urbanisation of countries, such as China, India, Brazil and South Korea, continued apace. see high levels of growth within the construction ...
At the mean value of the samples, 100 % increase in COVID-19 inflow risk pressure (population inflow from Wuhan as proportion of local population) postpones the average time for reaching epidemic plateau by 1.03–1.18 day. Then, we also anticipate that city economic activity size increase ...
Does the relationship between HL and RB remain significant after controlling for school factors related to educational track and academic performance? To what extent do factors related to neighbourhood deprivation and level of urbanisation change the strength and direction of the relationship under examinat...