Cities are centres of economy, policy, society and culture and more than half of the world’s population already lives in metropolitan areas. In the last decades the world has faced a constantly accelerating growth of urban areas a development which is closely related to a tremendous increase of the urban population. In 2007 the amount of urban residents has outnumbered the rural population for ...

economic valuation of water is useful in the administration and management of water. population growth and urbanization caused municipal water demand increase in iran. limited water resource supply and urban water network capacity raised complexity in water resources management. present condition suggests using economic value of water as a criterion for allocating policies and feasibility study...

The MOLAND model is a cellular automata (CA) land-use change model that has often been applied to simulate urban growth. A more recent alternative model makes the simulations more multifunctional by also computing different activities (population and employment) for every cell. However, the equation to update population density in time in this activity-based CA model could not deal with high po...

For the past two decades, China’s urbanization has attracted increasing attention from scholars around the world. Numerous insightful studies have attempted to determine the socioeconomic causes of the rapid urban growth in Chinese cities. However, most of these studies regarded each city as a single entity, with few considering inter-city relationships. The present study uses a gravity-based m...

in developing and newly industrialized countries, population growth and migration contribute immensely to the development of megacities and mega urban areas. in most cases, the rapid development ofcities has far-reaching consequences for the ecosystem in general and the hydrological cycle in particular. the developments in china within the last decades show an interesting, but complex setting. ...

â â  the present study attempts to investigate the urban hierarchy in iran between 1996-2006. the research method is content and statistical analysis. the necessity data were collected by documental method. in addition to the analysis and sorting of the data regarding the situation of iranian cities based on different models such as entropy ,ginny coefficients, urban concentration index, and ra...

total population of hormozgan pro vince of iran was 760,014 in 1365 and 10,045,085 in 1375, which shows a growth rate of %3/2 in 10 years. in comparison with other provinces. the growth rate is one of the highest in the country. th e aim of this study was to determine the fertility of hormozgan province. the method of study was cross - sectional and the sampling in a two stage s sampling of 200...

A preliminary foray into recent research on physical environmental conditions in Kota Ambon, reveals disturbing trends of ecosystem degradation and decline in quality of life for urban residents. Rapid population growth and urbanization activities have taken a massive toll on Ambon’s coastal environment, and in turn, environmental degradation is progressively undermining the quality of life of ...

Environmental pollutants have become a dreadful problem and burning issues for the present world irrespective of a country who is responsible for it. The objective of the study is to investigate impact of financial development and institutional quality on environmental degradation. The study is based on panel data for developing and developed countries over the time of 1996-2016. For the empiri...