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Urban sprawl and childhood obesity. [PDF]
Obes Rev, 2021 SummaryUrban sprawl is thought to be a risk factor for childhood obesity primarily because the physical environment it creates discourages children's physical activity while encouraging their sedentary behavior. However, there has not been any review on the association between urban sprawl and childhood obesity.
Wu T +6 more
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The Intensity of Urban Sprawl in Poland [PDF]
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2021 The issues of urban sprawl are current in both global research as well as the sphere of activities by public authorities in developed and developing countries.
Piotr Lityński
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Ecological Indicators, 2021 Rapid urban sprawl in China has caused serious eco-environmental changes, and thus attracted significant attention of the international academic circles.
Danling Chen +4 more
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Haze pollution and urban sprawl: An empirical analysis based on panel simultaneous equation model. [PDF]
PLoS ONEBased on the panel data of 227 prefecture-level and above cities in China from 2002 to 2018, a panel linkage equation model is constructed to explore the bidirectional influence relationship between haze pollution and urban sprawl, and the results of the
Luping Huo
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URBAN SPRAWL AND MOBILITY [PDF]
WIT Transactions on The Built Environment, 2021 In the last century the territory and the layout of the cities have undergone important changes with an enlargement in the space of human settlements. It deserves attention in terms of the principles of sustainability, limitation of soil consumption, environmental impacts and social needs.
Galiano G., Forestieri G., Moretti L.
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Land, 2023 In the context of rapid urbanization, inefficient, disorderly, and low-density urban sprawl often leads to resource waste and ecological damage. Over the decades, many studies on the measurement, analysis, and governance of urban sprawl have emerged ...
Yuneng Jiang, Yi Zhu, Yasi Tian
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Land, 2023 Under the urban development trend of sprawl, improving energy use efficiency is a proper way to promote green and low-carbon construction in cities.
Qiangyi Li +4 more
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Effects of urban sprawl on obesity [PDF]
Journal of Health Economics, 2010 In this paper, we examine the effect of changes in population density-urban sprawl-between 1970 and 2000 on BMI and obesity of residents in metropolitan areas in the U.S. We address the possible endogeneity of population density by using a two-step instrumental variables approach.
Zhenxiang Zhao, Robert Kaestner
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CORRELATIONS OF URBAN SPRAWL WITH TRANSPORT PATTERNS AND SOCIOECONOMICS OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN CRACOW, POLAND [PDF]
Scientific Journal of Silesian University of Technology. Series Transport, 2020 Urban sprawl is considered as a western urban development pattern, which is common in different cities around the world. Although, a large number of studies have focused on urban sprawl, modelling urban sprawl has been less emphasised, especially in ...
Melika MEHRIAR +2 more
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Spatiotemporal Analysis of Urban Sprawl and Ecological Quality Study Case: Chiba Prefecture, Japan
Land, 2023 The Japanese City Planning Act aims to control urban sprawl and promote compact urban development. Despite Japan’s aging population, urban sprawl remains a concern in shrinking sprawl situations.
Ruth Mevianna Aurora, Katsunori Furuya
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