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Dynamic Impact of Income Inequality on Environmental Quality in Malaysia: Insights for Climate Action Using a Stochastic Impacts by Regression on Population, Affluence, and Technology Framework

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores the dynamic influence of income inequality on environmental quality in Malaysia and offers evidence‐based recommendations for climate action and policy. Using annual data from 1990 to 2022, the analysis utilizes the Stochastic Impacts by Regression on Population, Affluence, and Technology (STIRPAT) framework combined with ...
Masahina Sarabdeen, Ahmad Mohammadi, Rafia Afroz, Hawazen Zam Almugren   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Landscape Aesthetics and the Scenic Drivers of Amenity Migration in the New West: Naturalness, Visual Scale, and Complexity

Land, 2014
Values associated with scenic beauty are common “pull factors” for amenity migrants, however the specific landscape features that attract amenity migration are poorly understood.
Jelena Vukomanovic, Barron J. Orr
doaj   +1 more source

Revisiting Transfer Intentions Among Floating Population in Chinese Cities: Spatial Differences and Multi-Level Determinants

SAGE Open, 2022
The hukou transfer intentions (HTI), as an essential indicator of migration behaviors, is of great significance to the urbanization development and the citizenization process of China’s floating migrants.
Xin Lao, Zhihao Zhao, Hengyu Gu
doaj   +1 more source

An Islamic Perspective on the Sustainable Development Goals: Exploring Key Challenges From the Ravi Riverfront Urban Development Project

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Projects are typically viewed as mechanisms for delivering products and services; however, this study examines projects from the distinct perspective of grand challenges (GCs). The selected case is the Ravi Riverfront Urban Development Project in Lahore, Pakistan—a grand challenge project (GCP).
Rehab Iftikhar, Syed Nayyer Abbas Kazmi
wiley   +1 more source

Agent‐based intra‐regional relocation model considering spatial local amenity for urban planning‐based flood risk management: Assessing the impact of urban development on flood exposure

Journal of Flood Risk Management
Integrated flood risk management based on urban policies remains challenging compared with infrastructure due to the unclear risk‐reduction effects over time.
Tomohiro Tanaka, Asuka Koga, Muneta Yokomatsu   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Housing Density and Ecosystem Function: Comparing the Impacts of Rural, Exurban, and Suburban Densities on Fire Hazard, Water Availability, and House and Road Distance Effects

Land, 2013
Many amenity-rich regions are experiencing rapid land-use change through low-density residential development or exurbanization. Those same natural-resource amenities that attracted migration are often degraded by housing growth and associated ...
Jelena Vukomanovic, Sandra L. Doumas, W. R. Osterkamp, Barron J. Orr   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Understanding the role of natural hazards in internal labour mobility in Australia

Weather and Climate Extremes, 2020
Australia is among the countries most exposed to natural hazards, particularly wildfire, cyclones, floods and heat waves. Natural disasters are expected to increase in frequency and severity as climate changes.
Kerstin K. Zander, Tom Wilson, Stephen T. Garnett   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

An alternative approach to estimating agglomeration and productivity using geography, demography and evidence from satellite imagery

Regional Studies, Regional Science, 2022
In this article we combine novel geographical, demographic and satellite data with an instrumental variables (IVs) estimation approach to tackle a thorny set of data and econometric issues. Studies of agglomeration effects on economic productivity at the
Chris Leishman, Weidong Liang
doaj   +1 more source

Accommodating Women: Geographies of Citizenship in the Twentieth‐Century Campaign for Women's Jury Rights

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australian women were among the first in the world to receive electoral suffrage, yet it took until 1997 before they had full equality of jury suffrage. This article examines the debate around female jurors by focusing less on discourses of citizenship than on the subterranean spatial arrangements upon which equality depended.
Alecia Simmonds
wiley   +1 more source