While the Amazon region has the world's largest reserve of fresh water, the lack of water services and water treatment, especially in non-urban regions, causes environmental and health problems. In isolated rural settlements supply is usually by shallow wells, and the quality of water is a concern for residents. These are situations where there are restricted options for water treatment. This s...

Introduction The tourism industry can provide a good platform for investment, and because of its less reliance on resources, provides an opportunity for less developed countries to stimulate their economic growth to increase production and create job opportunities. Meanwhile, the villages have very favorable and special conditions in accordance with their cultural, social, economic, geographic...

Assessing the Effect of Mother’s Migration on Childhood Mortality in the Informal Settlements of Nairobi Between one and two million migrants reside in cramped conditions in Nairobi’s slums without proper access to sanitation or affordable clean water. Children in such areas are exposed to enormous risks, health risks in particular. Using longitudinal data collected every four months during the...

Since the 1960’s the island Tenerife is characterized by an increasing tourism – about 4.9 mio. accommodate tourists in 2003 – which causes a lasting change of the socio-economic situation and a rural exodus. On account of this development the situation of land cover and land use changed in the same time: Fallow land, land wasting and decreasing settlements are some of the main consequences. Th...

Rural residents’ perception is an important way of evaluating rural ecosystem services. Different topographies affect the level services, thus affecting perceived preferences. This study conducted a questionnaire survey 1176 residents in mountainous, hilly, and plain areas Shandong Province. It analyzed respondents’ satisfaction with services landscape preferences different topographical areas....

The cultural landscapes have a dual, material and intangible nature being the result of interactions between people through time. Considering that its understanding requires integrated analysis techniques we experimented mapping method in «Revolutionary Palimpsests», research project investigating settlements played an important role Greek War Independence. Combining design, cartography visual ...

BACKGROUND In recent years there has been increasing evidence of an association between residential remoteness and hypertension (HTN); however, no study has examined the effects of residential remoteness-lifestyle associations on HTN. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of residential remoteness, as measured by road network distance and elevation, and lifestyle associations,...

extended abstract 1. introduction iran is located in the active region of the world in terms of seismicity and according to the scientific documentation information and observations of the twentieth century is considered the riskiest region of the world by powerful earthquake. as a widely-accepted fact that “earthquake does not kill people but the buildings do” we know the overwhelming relevanc...

Debris flows, which cause massive economic losses and tragic of life every year, represent serious threats to settlements in mountainous areas. Most deaths caused by debris flows China occur buildings, the death toll is strongly dependent on time people spend indoors. However, role spent indoors quantitative analysis flow risk has been studied only scarcely. We chose Luomo village Sichuan atop ...