Coastal saltmarsh distribution in Australia appears to be following a global trend of decline. In the estuaries of NSW, saltmarsh is often squeezed between landward encroachment of mangrove forest and urban/industrial development of foreshore land. Efforts to maintain and rehabilitate saltmarsh are complicated by an incomplete understanding of the hydraulic drivers for estuarine vegetation dist...

One of the challenges of simulating urban regions in Europe is urban shrinkage, where de-industrialisation, massive population losses and ageing cause housing vacancies in cities. These vacancies decrease efficiency in urban infrastructure and result in problems related to under-utilisation. Investigating the relationship between residential location choice and infrastructure-related decisions ...

Background In 2012, liver cancer ranked as the fifth and eighth most common cancer in men and women, respectively, in urban Shanghai. This study aims to present the trend and projection of age-specific incidence and mortality of liver cancer in Shanghai. Methods We extracted data of liver cancer incident cases and deaths between 1973 and 2012. An age-period-cohort model was used to analyze th...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of recall on estimation of non-fatal injury rates in Tanzania. DESIGN Retrospective population based survey. SETTING Eight branches in an urban area and six villages in a relatively prosperous rural area in Tanzania. SUBJECTS Individuals of all ages living in households selected by cluster sampling. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Estimated non-fatal inju...

Higher levels of pollutants are observed in the residential area near the highway passing through Jalgaon urban center. The continuous exposure of the population to these higher levels of air pollutants leads in decrease in the lung capacity. Decline in the lung parameters FVC, FEV1, and PEFR are observed in the population residing in the area than the non-exposed population.

Conventional wisdom suggests that urban revitalization can harm the poor, primarily by raising rents. It has also been argued that urban decline harms the poor by reducing job opportunities, the quality of local public services, and other neighborhood amenities. This seeming contradiction can be explained in a model incorporating moving costs and neighborhood quality change sufficiently large t...

As it is commonly understood, Urban neighborhoods play a significant role in developing urbansustainability as the smallest unit of city so that the formation and promotion of neighborhood identity, and focusingon social relationships would be in harmony with urban sustainability. It is believed that a dramatic change in spatialstructure of urban neighborhood include a decline in levels of poli...