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Urbanization Sans Development? [PDF]
From a theoretical standpoint, the question has to be asked whether or not the census should retain its present definition of urban areas. There is a need for a more meaningful integration of the structural, institutional and demographic criteria, if the
Flieger, Wilhelm, Gultiano, Socorro A.
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The relationships between total, electricity and biofuels residential energy consumption and income in Latin America and the Caribbean Countries [PDF]
, 2017 Controlling residential energy consumption in Latino America and the Caribbean countries is crucial to reduce CO2 emissions, as it has an important energy-saving potential, and its environmental controls are difficult to ...
Mejia, Robert +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The aim of this study is to examine the impact of corruption control, as a public institutional mechanism, on hazardous waste emissions of private sector entities. We also examine the extent to which Agenda 2030 moderates the relationship. We analyse data from the top 500 global companies.
Babajide Oyewo +3 more
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SystemsUrban vitality, a critical emergent property of complex urban systems, is pivotal for sustainable, human-oriented urbanization. While land use mix (LUM) is recognized as a key strategy for shaping these systems, the systemic mechanisms through which its ...
Yuefei Zhuo, Hangang Hu, Guan Li
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Production of middle distillates through olefin oligomerization using ZSM‐5 as a catalyst
The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, EarlyView.Abstract The global transportation sector relies heavily on gasoline (C5–C12) and diesel (C11–C24), which together account for approximately 60% of its energy needs. Driven by rapid industrialization and urbanization, diesel consumption is outpacing gasoline, with projections estimating global demand by 2035 at 27 million barrels per day for gasoline ...
Thembekile Hoyi +3 more
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Spatiotemporal Heterogeneity of Urban Land Expansion and Urban Population Growth under New Urbanization: A Case Study of Chongqing. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2022 Zhang Y, Li Y, Chen Y, Liu S, Yang Q.
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Agricultural exit problems: Causes and consequences [PDF]
"Contrary to conventional economic theories, the relationship between income growth and the share of the population within the rural or agricultural sector is extremely diverse, even among regions starting from similar levels of development, such as Asia
Bezemer, Dirk +2 more
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Overflowing Cities: The State of the World's Toilets 2016 [PDF]
, 2016 Human beings are now largely an urban species: for the first time in history, more than half of the world's population (54%, or 3.9 billion people) lives in towns, cities and megacities.
Tom Burgess
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Clinical and Experimental Dental Research, EarlyView.Abstract Background Family plays a significant role in children's dental and oral health (DOH) elements, such as children's DOH knowledge and practice, the development of children's dental fear and anxiety (DFA), children's dental visits, and children's DOH status.
Wisnu Fadila +5 more
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Defining urban and rural regions by multifractal spectrums of urbanization
, 2015 The spatial pattern of urban-rural regional system is associated with the dynamic process of urbanization. How to characterize the urban-rural terrain using quantitative measurement is a difficult problem remaining to be solved.
Chen, Yanguang
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