AIM The aim of this study was to explore nurses' perceptions of climate and environmental issues and examine how nurses perceive their role in contributing to the process of sustainable development. BACKGROUND Climate change and its implications for human health represent an increasingly important issue for the healthcare sector. According to the International Council of Nurses Code of Ethics...

Not yet two decades after the publication of Our Common Future, the world’s political and environmental landscape has changed significantly. Nonetheless, we argue that the concept and practice of sustainable development (SD)–as guiding institutional principle, as concrete policy goal, and as focus of political struggle–remains salient in confronting the multiple challenges of this new global or...

The Fourth World Conference on Women acknowledged that environmental degradation 1) disproportionately affects poor women who are powerless to control it, 2) is linked to poverty, and 3) jeopardizes women's reproductive health. Thus, the Platform for Action addresses environmental inequalities among its 12 areas of critical concern, and the governments who signed the consensus agreed to take a...

OBJECTIVES This study investigates the independent and joint effects of family income and neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES) on general health and oral health before and after controlling for traditional risk factors in a representative sample of adults aged 18+ years residing in the Detroit tri-county area, Michigan. METHODS Individuals data were obtained through interviews, while neigh...

Nowadays, historical neighborhoods in Iran are a state of decay due to the lack spatial legibility with respect their organic layout. Hence, level interaction among people and perception environment has gradually diminished. Historical no longer possess former prosperity function, citizens prefer inhabit newer configurations meet demands. The aim this study was investigate role creating suitabl...

We describe here preliminary results of our Comet implementation of generic abstractions for Very LargeScale Neighborhoods. These neighborhoods are used in local search. Their size is exponential but the best neighbor can be computed in polynomial time. They have proven to be very efficient on a large set of problems. However designing such neighborhoods requires high development efforts. Our o...

In the Euclidean TSP with neighborhoods (TSPN) problem we seek a shortest tour that visits a given set of n neighborhoods. The Euclidean TSPN generalizes the standard TSP on points. We present the first constant-factor approximation algorithm for TSPN on an arbitrary set of disjoint, connected neighborhoods in the plane. Prior approximation bounds were O(log n), except in special cases. Our app...

We tested the hypothesis that neighborhoods with hazardous waste sites may no longer be undesirable places to live if they have been at least partly remediated. We collected 377 questionnaires (42% response rate) administered from within one-half mile of the number 1, 4, and 12 hazardous waste sites on the National Priority List (Superfund). These neighborhoods were rated higher quality than ne...

The geographic concentration and diffusion of crime deviancy are longstanding criminological inquiries, yet few studies have examined how certain illicit behaviors transcend neighborhood borders connect neighborhoods in patterns deviancy. A structural interdependence may account for the enduring nature spread crime, making it critical to understand connected guide prevention disruption efforts....

We evaluate the relationship between job proximity and male joblessness at the neighborhood level in Cleveland and Milwaukee. Using two tract-level measures of proximity to employment (i.e., physical distance and commute time), we Žnd mixed evidence for the spatial mismatch hypothesis. As expected, we Žnd that predominantly black neighborhoods in both cities have higher rates of male joblessnes...