The human race has entered a completely new stage in its history,along with the advance of the society and the increaceingly rapid economic globalization and urbanization, which resulted in the phenomenon that we are accustomed to living a very fast rhythm lifestyle,ignoring the Chinese traditiona...
The term “urbanization” comes fromurbs, the Latin word for city, and means the spread of lifestyles that are common in a city. The term “physical urbanization” is used to denote the actual growth of cities. If the infrastructure of a rural region is developed so that it’s comparable ...
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Anyone 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...
Centanni J, Kaufmann B, Blatrix R, Blight O, Dumet A et al (2022) High resolution mapping in Southern France reveals that distributions of supercolonial and monodomous species in the Tapinoma nigerrimum complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) are related to sensitivity to urbanization. Myrmecol News ...
urbanization and/or promote redevelopment at the interior of cities; clustering people together through the force of land use policies alone—like the urban growth boundaries of yesteryear (Knaap and Nelson1992)—will not work if density makes people unhappy. A brighter, more proactive view is ...
This is due to population explosion and rampant urbanization. With the increase in the demand for goods due to the burgeoning population, the manufacturers are leaving no stone unturned to produce surplus goods. Economic activities, on such a large scale, are inclining pollution considerably. In ...
Smart cities: According to the Smart City Index (SCI), a smart city is “an urban setting that applies technology to enhance the benefits and diminish the shortcomings of urbanization.” Increasing populations, traffic congestion, and aging infrastructures are all among some of the challenges that...
Tüzün N, Müller S, Koch K, Stoks R (2017) Pesticide-induced changes in personality depend on the urbanization level. Anim Behav 134:45–55 Article Google Scholar Vazire S, Gosling SD, Dickey AS, Schapiro SJ (2007) Measuring personality in nonhuman animals. In: Robins RW, Fraley RC, ...
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