reading this is likely to have heard the statistic that ‘over half of the world’s population now lives in urban areas’. This has been the standard opening line of reports and presentations about urbanization since this milestone was supposedly reached in 2008. But what does it really mean?
Beck U (2014) Emancipatory catastrophism: What does it mean to climate change and risk society? In: The Seoul Conference 2014 - Climate Change and Risk Society: New Trends of Megacity Transformation, Seoul, 8 July 2014.Beck, U. (2015), `Emancipatory Catastrophism:...
I mean, doesn’t every American who once lived in Delhi do that? * * * The year-and-a-half my wife Jenny and I lived in Delhi’s Hauz Khas Market neighborhood changed me forever. Not just because of the career boost from my promotion to the Gurgaon office. And not just because ...
The lying game: Australia’s political landscape to come – The Shot Australia’s sea-dumping legislation: what is it and what does it mean for the marine environment? | Environment | The Guardian Hello, Michael Gove? I’d like to report a gang of extremists who are...
A first approach is the Common Correlated Effects Mean Group (CCEMG) method of Pesaran (2006) that uses cross-sectional averages of the observable variables as good proxies for unobservable common factors. The second approach is the interactive fixed effects (IFEs) method proposed by Bai (2009)...
For example, a nine-year long monitoring program of urban storm water runoff in Vilnius, Lithuania, has revealed that the mean values of suspended solids (SS) and total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH) are most likely to exceed the permissible limits [17]. The results from an investigation of ...
What infrastructure does Toronto have to support its increased population? Toronto has a planned system of underground tunnels and concourses lined with shops, restaurants, and theaters to support its increased population. What are some of the major economic sectors in Toronto? Manufacturing, agricultur...