Many coastal cities in developing countries are at the risk of flooding due to a progressive increase built-up areas and poor management storm water. The situation gets accentuated further climate-induced natural disasters such as cyclones climate change-induced sea-level rise that adversely impact city's drainage potential. This study developed composite urban flood index consisting three sub-...

Among various types of cities, mining cities have special features including a high concentration of industrial activities associated with the exploration, extraction, refining, processing and export of groundwater resources, the risk of reduction and termination of non-renewable resources, high degree of environmental pollution, high production of domestic and industrial waste and social issue...

Clonorchiasis sinensis is a food-borne parasitic zoonosis caused by Clonorchis sinensis which infects fish-eating mammals including humans, dogs, cats and pigs. The disease is prevalent in East Asian and Southeast Asian countries. Boott in 1903 first proved the presence of the disease in China. In 1930s doctors from Europe and America,and Japanese carried out the occasional survey in coastal ci...

The aim of this research is to investigate China’s urban green total factor productivity (TFP) under the background of progressing urbanization and intensifying environmental pollution, and found out its main influencing factors. In this paper, green TFP of 285 prefecture-level cities in China from 2005 to 2012 was estimated through Malmquist productivity index. Results showed that the annual g...

China’s property market has been the subject of much media coverage in recent years. Rapid price increases for residential property and the possibility of a price bubble in many cities has led the central government to take a myriad of regulatory measures to cool housing markets. Scholarly attention has focused either on inter-city analyses or case studies of the high-GDP coastal cities like Sh...