Around the world, settlements in flood-prone areas have been expanding faster than the average of newly built cities, towns and villages, a paper released Wednesday in the scientific journal Nature ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The impact of the calamitous rains that struck East Africa from March to May was intensified by a mix of climate change and rapid growth of urban areas, an international team of ...

The RUS mapping model proposed in this study on the basis of referring to similar studies consisted of three basic steps, including kernel density estimation, initial boundary delineation and ...

Real estate professional, Prince Iheanacho Ojukwu, has said Nigeria’s rapid urbanisation has become a critical issue in the face of global housing crisis. He said in a statement that with over 60 per ...

In an era of rapid urbanization and major demographic shifts, cities have become the geographic epicenter of resource consumption and chemical emissions.

Global urban infrastructure systems are increasingly exposed to complex challenges arising from climate change, aging assets, and rapid urbanization.

India is witnessing a rapid urban transformation. The population is projected to grow from 1.21 billion in 2011 to 1.518 billion by 2036, with the urban population expected to cross 600 million, up ...

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