Abstract A field survey was conducted in a contaminated industrial site of southern Beijing, China to investigate the contents and distribution of the organochlorine pesticides (alpha-, beta-, gamma-, delta-HCH, p,p'-DDT, p,p'-DDE, p,p'-DDD and o,p'-DDT) in the profiles of soil, and a health risk assessment was carried out with CalTOX multimedia exposure model. Results showed that mean concentr...

OBJECTIVE To build a national Cuban capacity for training environmental health professionals directly linked to the needs of policy-makers and communities. PARTICIPANTS The University of Manitoba and University of British Columbia collaborated with an established training centre in Cuba (the Instituto Nacional de Higiene y Epidemiologia--INHEM) and new centres in the Central (Santa Clara) and...

This article describes our work realised since the beginning of the Towntology project, which aim was the development of urban ontologies. First of all our work deals with the comprehension of what is an ontology and their uses. Thanks to this prior studies, we develop a prototype and 3 urban ontologies: road system, urban mobility, urban renewal. After describing our result, we synthesize the ...

for providing access to the unit record data. We thank the Upjohn Institute for providing details about the administration of the the Kalamazoo Promise program. The paper has benefitted greatly from the comments of Introduction To the surprise of the residents of Kalamazoo, Michigan, the Kalamazoo Promise was announced on November 10, 2005. Fully funded by anonymous donors, the Kalamazoo Promis...

The post-industrial European city is characterized by dispersed urbanization, resulting in increased travel, substantial use of land, social disparities and costs that are unsustainable in the long term. Consequently, most European countries have set the goal of limiting urban sprawl by prioritizing increased density in already built-up areas. To achieve this goal, it is not enough to build new...

urban green spaces are one of the most important services in modern cities and form a set of urban sustainable development factors which receive considerable attention from urban planners. this paper explains how land use can be optimally allocated to urban public green spaces. in this study, some of the factors influencing urban green spaces in a period from 1373 to 1384 were studied. moreover...

There has been worldwide concern for sustainable development especially after the 1992’s Rio’s UN Conference on Environment and Development. Rapid encroachment of urban development on valuable agricultural land will have great in ̄ uence on whether sustainable development can be achieved. A sustainable land development model is developed using GIS in an attempt to control urban sprawl under rapi...

A forewarning model was set up to evaluate the process of urban sustainable development based on fuzzy matter element theory. Taking status of Nan tong city from 2005 to 2008 as an example, we set up an index system of forewarning in the process of urban sustainable development in Nan tong and established the forewarning standards, limits and degrees.