based on a gender equity perspective and within a pluralistic civil society, women should have equal rights for presence in and use of urban open spaces. despite this, various factors decrease their presence including inappropriate design of space, as well as socio-cultural obstacles. since women’s major place of presence and activity has traditionally been in or near home, neighborhood open sp...

Housing and urban environments represent the physical context for everyday life and have a significant impact on population health and well-being. Depending on the quality of housing and urban conditions, they can support or restrict the health of their residents through a variety of aspects such as air pollution, noise, thermal conditions, safety aspects and environmental contamination. Theref...

Urban overheating and energy imbalances are severe environmental concerns. The role of urban sprawl patterns in the formation Heat Island has recently absorbed researchers’ interest. research focuses on metropolitan areas with a range typologies. However, there still is knowledge gap how UHI responds to different interaction between configurations heat island characteristics explored Sydney. A ...

This paper presents an empirical study of population growth and environmental change using cross-sectional district-level data from South, Central and West India. Environmental change is measured using a satellite-based “greenness” index. Unlike prior work, the analysis treats population and environmental change as jointly determined, distinguishes between rural and urban populations, and ident...

Environmental flow assessment frameworks have begun to consider changes to flow regimes resulting from land-use change. Urban stormwater runoff, which degrades streams through altered volume, pattern and quality of flow, presents a problem that challenges dominant approaches to stormwater and water resource management, and to environmental flow assessment. We used evidence of ecological respons...