Urban-Rural Surface Temperature Deviation and Intra-Urban Variations Contained by an Urban Growth Boundary

Urban Surface Biophysical Descriptors and Land Surface Temperature Variations

In remote sensing studies of land surface temperatures (LST), thematic land-use and land-cover (LULC) data are frequently employed for simple correlation analyses between LULC types and their thermal signatures. Development of quantitative surface descriptors could improve our capabilities for modeling urban thermal landscapes and advance urban climate research. This study developed an analytic...

Investigation of Impervious surface and Urban Surface Temperature in Qaemshahr

Information on a variation of impervious surface is useful for understanding urbanization and its impacts on the hydrological cycle, water management, surface energy balances, urban heat island, and biodiversity. This research attempts to detect impervious surfaces and its changes by satellite imagery in Qaemshahr. The relationship between impervious surfaces and changes in land surface tempera...

Urbanization, Rural–urban Migration and Urban Poverty

Urban Bias, Rural-Urban Income Gap and Agricultural Growth: the Resource-Diverting Effect of Rural-Urban Income Gap in China

Urban bias has long been China’s dominant economic policy. The persistent urban bias leads to a severe rural-urban income gap and diverts physical as well as an effect of diverting the rural resource out of agricultural sector, and thus is detrimental to agricultural growth. This paper uses China’s provincial panel data from 1978 to 2007 to investigate the diverting effects of the rural-urban i...

Economic Growth and Rural-Urban Income Distribution

TT is not easy to allocate India's national income between the urban and rural sectors nor the change in their respective magnitudes over the ten year period. Fortunately, the two terminal points of our period coincide wi th the decennial Census and it is possible to make a somewhat rough estimate of the relevant magnitudes. There are however differences in definit ion of the urban area between...