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Nigel K. Downes, Harry Storch, Pham Quoc Viet, Nguyen Kieu Diem and Le Canh Dinh
This paper contributes to the understanding of the recent urban development of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Previous studies have aimed at quantifying the city?s spatial growth yet have disregarded its inherent morphological and socio-economic heterogeneit...
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Lucia Laginová, Michal Hrivnák and Jana Jarábková
Alternative food networks (AFNs) represent local food systems and short supply chain networks alternative to global food systems. These networks are often developed within rural?urban interfaces and take various forms, due to the high propensity towards ...
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Taryn M. Chaya, Tracey B. Schafer and Todd Z. Osborne
The aim of this research was to identify the impacts of land use and subsequent pulse-driven events on water quality across a gradient of urbanization spanning three blackwater rivers in northeast Florida that contribute to a common estuary ecosystem. Th...
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Tiemei Yan, Tong Zhang and Zhanguo Zhu
China has implemented an environmental protection tax for large-scale agricultural farming to address environmental pollution caused by livestock and poultry breeding. Studying the environmental management of large-scale pig farming is crucial for contro...
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Abdullah Al-Maruf, A. K. M. Kanak Pervez, Pradip Kumar Sarker, Md Saifur Rahman and Jorge Ruiz-Menjivar
In Bangladesh, rural?urban migration is widespread. Many earlier studies discussed the factors, patterns, causes, and consequences and the socio-economic and environmental impact of migration from the general perspective. However, rural?urban migration w...
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Oliver Harig, Robert Hecht, Dirk Burghardt and Gotthard Meinel
Urban Growth Boundary (UGB) is a growth management policy that designates specific areas where growth should be concentrated in order to avoid urban sprawl. The objective of such a boundary is to protect agricultural land, open spaces and the natural env...
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Kamrun Nahar Koly, Md. Saiful Islam, Daniel D Reidpath, Jobaida Saba, Sohana Shafique, Md. Razib Chowdhury and Farzana Begum
Background: The study aimed to assess the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and its associated factors among urban slum dwellers who migrated from different rural parts of Bangladesh. Methods: The present study analyzed data from a Migration and Mob...
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Harri Oinas-Kukkonen, Pasi Karppinen and Markku Kekkonen
Two of the key information technologies with very high expectations to change our contemporary society are the fifth generation broadband cellular network technologies, which are already emerging to markets, and the foreseen sixth generation broadband ce...
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Dele Raheem, Moammar Dayoub, Rhoda Birech and Alice Nakiyemba
Africa is a net importer of food, especially cereal grains, despite the importance of agriculture in the continent. The agricultural growth in Africa has been undermined by low investment in agriculture, poor infrastructure, high population growth rate, ...
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Lan Mu, Yusi Liu, Donglan Zhang, Yong Gao, Michelle Nuss, Janani Rajbhandari-Thapa, Zhuo Chen, José A. Pagán, Yan Li, Gang Li and Heejung Son
Physician shortages are more pronounced in rural than in urban areas. The geography of medical school application and matriculation could provide insights into geographic differences in physician availability. Using data from the Association of American ...
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