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Research on the Water–Energy–Carbon Coupling Changes and Their Influencing Factors in the Henan Section of the Sha Ying River Basin, China

Agriculture
The Henan section of the Sha Ying River Basin, as the core agricultural area of the Central Plains Urban Agglomeration (CPUA), plays a significant role in promoting regional green and sustainable development through the coordinated management of water ...
Xueke Liu, Yong Wu, Ling Li, Chi Sun, Jianwei Liu, Wenzhen Wang   +5 more
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Productivity Differences in the European Union: National, Regional and Spatial Effects [PDF]

Using panel data on European regions and applying Analysis of Covariance, our study provides an empirical assessment of the relative importance of national, regional and spatial factors for explaining variations of productivity.
Andreas Stephan, Kurt Geppert, Martin Gornig   +2 more
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Monitoring Changes in Urban–Agricultural–Ecological Space Competition and Assessing Its Impact on Ecosystem Service Value in China’s Key Agricultural Regions

Land
Human activity-driven territorial spatial competition profoundly affects ecosystem service value (ESV). However, the spatiotemporal patterns of “urban–agricultural–ecological space” (UAES) competition in China’s key agricultural regions and their ...
Xuyang Chen, Hongen Hu, Ziao Xu, Tianyi Cai   +3 more
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Postwar trends in metropolitan employment growth: decentralization and deconcentration [PDF]

A key finding to emerge from this study is that the widely studied suburbanization or decentralization of employment and population is only part of the story of postwar urban evolution. Another important part of the story is a postwar trend of relatively
Gerald Carlino, Satyajit Chatterjee
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Human‐Induced Climate Change Intensifies Extreme Precipitation Events in Central China's Urban Areas

Geophysical Research Letters
Understanding the drivers behind extreme precipitation is crucial for predicting and mitigating the impacts of climate change globally, yet it remains little known how anthropogenic factors contribute to these phenomena.
Yufan Chen, Shuyu Zhang, Hong Wang, Deliang Chen, Junguo Liu   +4 more
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Strengthening the territorial position of Valladolid through planning strategies: Networks, patterns and centralities [PDF]

, 2014
The urban condition of the European territory requires new approaches to explain the current development of cities and to propose new planning tools.
De las Rivas Sanz, Juan Luis, PARIS, MARIO   +1 more
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Growth in a cross-section of cities: location, increasing returns or random growth? [PDF]

This article analyzes empirically the main existing theories on income and population city growth: increasing returns to scale, locational fundamentals and random growth.
Jose Olmo, Rafael González-Val
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Density and disasters: economics of urban hazard risk [PDF]

Today, 370 million people live in cities in earthquake prone areas and 310 million in cities with high probability of tropical cyclones. By 2050, these numbers are likely to more than double. Mortality risk therefore is highly concentrated in many of the
Deichmann, Uwe, Lall, Somik V.
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NAFTA and the geography of North American trade [PDF]

Debates over the desirability of a preferential trading area frequently begin with the supposition that it will have two effects on the volume of trade: It will increase trade between members of the trading area and decrease trade between members and ...
Howard J. Wall
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ASSESSING THE JOINT INFLUENCE OF ECOLOGICAL AND SOCIOECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF INCREASES IN THE BUILT-ENVIRONMENT: A STUDY OF TRENDS IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA [PDF]

This paper advances an empirical model assessing how, over both time and space, changes in land-use respond to changing economic and ecological conditions.
Iovanna, Rich, Vance, Colin
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