Sand, gravel, and crushed stone are the most mined materials on Earth. Aggregates constitute foundation for modern civilization essential providing shelter, infrastructure, communication, but an increasingly scarce resource. Here, we review interconnections between impacts of aggregate mining services they provide. We show that conflicting environment humankind disrupt net positive effects sust...

UN-Habitat suggests that one in every three people in the world will live in “slums” within 30 years. This paper analyses innovations in shelter finance that may help to avoid this situation. The urban poor, both as individual households and in terms of their organized collective capacity, face two very serious constraints. The first is their income poverty and their limited ability to invest i...

Objective-Feline upper respiratory infection (URI) is a common, multi-factorial infectious disease syndrome endemic to many animal shelters. Although a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in shelter cats, URI is seldom formally monitored in shelter cat populations. Without monitoring, effective control and prevention of this often endemic disease is difficult. We looked at an integrate...