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International Conference on Urban Comfort and Environmental Quality URBAN-CEQ

open access: yes, 2017
Burlando Massimiliano   +4 more
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A temporospatial assessment of environmental quality in urbanizing Ethiopia

Journal of Environmental Management, 2022
Global environmental quality has been negatively affected by urbanization, particularly vulnerable in the Sub-Saharan Africa. Therefore, understanding the underlying mechanism and driving forces for the change of environmental quality with urbanization process is essential to improve the environmental sustainability. In this study, the compounded night
Jian Sun   +9 more
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Urban environmental quality and human well-being

Landscape and Urban Planning, 2003
Irene van Kamp   +3 more
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Dimensions of Urban Environmental Quality

Environment and Behavior, 1976
For purposes of planning and for impact studies, definition of environmental quality and instruments for its measurement are badly needed. Efforts in this area have largely been subjective, have depended upon expert judgment, and have been concerned with specific, isolated aspects of environmental quality rather than being directed to description of ...
Frances M. Carp   +2 more
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Urban environmental quality and out-migration intentions

The Annals of Regional Science, 2020
Many large and industrial cities all around the world suffer from out-migration. It is usually connected with a loss of qualified labour force, suboptimal use of housing and city infrastructure, decrease in investments, etc., resulting in limited development potential.
Jiří Balcar, Jan Šulák
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Urbanization, housing and environmental quality indicators

Journal of Agriculture, Forestry and the Social Sciences, 2015
The migration of human populations from rural to urban settlements known as urbanization in its most basic sense suggests an improvement in various facets of life. Urbanization ideally should also imply an enhancement of housing quality and other components of human settlements such as power supply, portable water, good roads, proper refuse and sewage ...
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Urbanization, democracy, bureaucratic quality, and environmental degradation

Journal of Policy Modeling, 2017
Abstract The study examines the relationship between urbanization and environment degradation while controlling for political environment in 38 African countries over the period 1970–2011. Using panel cointegration and causality analyses, we find that urbanization, environmental degradation (CO2 emissions) and political economy variables (democracy ...
Samuel Adams, Edem Kwame Mensah Klobodu
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Urban Ecological Environmental Quality Evaluation System Research

Advanced Materials Research, 2014
The paper extracts the urban ecological environmental quality evaluation index, based on hierarchical analysis model, the integrated use of "pressure-state-response" model, through the frequency statistics method, factor comparison method and expert evaluation method and so on to set up urban ecological environmental quality evaluation system in nearly
openaire   +1 more source

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