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Economic concequences of urbanization and urbanization policy in China: introduction KU Leuven
The Chinese government for many years followed a relatively restrictive policy towards urbanization, in part by means of policies that sought to limit rural-urban migration. Of course, such a policy of limiting urbanization came at a cost: the inability to fully capture the social and economic benefits of urban agglomeration. As a result, restrictions on urban-rural migration were gradually eased, and currently the acceleration of urbanization ...
Investigating the impacts of urbanization on PM2.5 pollution in the Yangtze River Delta of China: A spatial panel data approach Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Urbanization is a key determinant of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) pollution variability. However, there is a limited understanding of different urbanization factors’ roles in PM2.5 pollution. Using satellite-derived PM2.5 data from 2002 to 2017, we investigated the spatiotemporal evolution and the spatial autocorrelation of PM2.5 pollution in the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) region. Afterwards, the impacts of three urbanization factors ...
Using natural laboratories to study evolution to global warming: contrasting altitudinal, latitudinal, and urbanization gradients KU Leuven
Demonstrating the likelihood of evolution in response to global warming is important, yet challenging. We discuss how three spatial thermal gradients (latitudinal, altitudinal, and urbanization) can be used as natural laboratories to inform about the gradual thermal evolution of populations by applying a space-for-time substitution (SFTS) approach. We compare thermal variables and confounding non-thermal abiotic variables, methodological ...
The impact of urbanization on ponds and their zooplankton communities ,, KU Leuven
Human occupation on earth has had a detrimental effect on the environment on a global scale. Currently, more than half of the human population is living in cities and that number is expected only to increase in the following decades. Urbanization directly and indirectly impacts ecosystems by modifying biogeochemical and nutrient cycles, hydrology and energy flow. Urbanization has led to habitat fragmentation and degradation, pollution, and is ...
Relating phenotypic and genetic variation to urbanization in avian species: a case study on house sparrows (Passer domesticus) Ghent University
Peripheralization through mass housing urbanization in Hong Kong, Mexico City, and Paris Ghent University
This article compares how state-initiated mass housing urbanization has contributed to processes of peripheralization in three very different historical and geopolitical settings: in Paris from the 1950s to the 1990s in Hong Kong from the 1950s to 2010s and in Mexico City from the 1990s to the 2010s. We understand mass housing urbanization as large-scale industrial housing production based on the intervention of state actors into the ...
Assessing the Effect of Open-Pit Mining Activities and Urbanization on Fine Particulate Matter Concentration by Using Remote Sensing Imagery: A Case Study in Binh Duong Province, Vietnam Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) leads to respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. Nowadays, PM2.5 monitoring on a large scale is a significant concern. The study aims to estimate the PM2.5 concentrations and assess the effect of open-pit mining and urbanization on PM2.5 concentrations by using satellite observations and ground-based stations over Binh Duong province, Vietnam. Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) from Moderate Resolution Imaging ...
Interplay between urbanization and irrigation on summer climate in the Huang‐Huai‐Hai plain, China Ghent University
This study investigates how the individual and combined effects of urbanization and irrigation affect summer climate using convection-permitting regional climate model simulations with/without urbanization or irrigation over the Huang-Huai-Hai plain (3HP). We found that (a) In dramatic urban expansion areas, T2max, T2avg, and T2min increased by 0.53, 0.43, and 0.40 degrees C, respectively. Urbanization influenced the net radiation (RN), sensible ...