China has seen the largest human migration in history, and the country's rapid urbanisation has important consequences for public health. A provincial analysis of its urbanisation trends shows shifting and accelerating rural-to-urban migration across the country and accompanying rapid increases in city size and population. The growing disease burden in urban areas attributable to nutrition and ...

Résumé D. C. Hindson — Urbanisation et contrôle de l'immigration : de l'apartheid territorial à l'organisation régionale de l'espace en Afrique du Sud. Examen critique de la stratégie d' « urbanisation dans l'ordre » recommandée par le rapport de la commission présidentielle sur « Une stratégie d'urbanisation pour la république d'Afrique du Sud », publié en septembre 1985. L'article, écrit en n...

Ever since humans started to develop agriculture, trade and task differentiation, agglomerations have evolved according to scaling rules that may well be universal. After passing the milestone of 50% urbanisation, humanity is rapidly becoming a predominantly city-dwelling species. Ensuring the resilience, safety and sustainability of fast-growing cities will require much more joined-up policy a...

The combined effect of climate change and urbanisation on 2-m temperature are investigated over Greater Sydney using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. The climate of the region is simulated at 2km horizontal spatial resolution for the present (1990-2009) and a possible future (2040-2059) climate scenario (following the A2 emission scenario). The model default land use is replace...

Used vehicle tires are a source of mosquito vectors and a means of their introduction and expansion. With the aim of assessing the effects of urbanisation on the main mosquito vectors in temperate Argentina, the infestation levels of Aedes aegypti (L.) and Culex pipiens L. were studied in used tires from highly urbanised cities to low-urbanised small towns in Buenos Aires. Immatures of both spe...

BACKGROUND Evidence is compelling for a positive correlation between climate change, urbanisation and prevalence of allergic sensitisation and diseases. The reason for this association is not clear to date. Some data point to a pro-allergenic effect of anthropogenic factors on susceptible individuals. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the impact of urbanisation and climate change on pollen allergenicity...

Chapter 2 examines whether Africa’s urban transformations could lead to an increase in conflicts on the continent. It shows that West Africa is currently characterised by a rapid number and size of cities, trend followed North African countries several decades ago. The Sahel region, especially, experiencing urbanisation conjunction with continuous growth its rural population. chapter then discu...

Since the description of Lutzomyia longipalpis by Lutz and Neiva more than 100 years ago, much has been written in the scientific literature about this phlebotomine species. Soares and Turco (2003) and Lainson and Rangel (2005) have written extensive reviews focused on vector-host-parasite interactions and American visceral leishmaniasis ecology. However, during the last two decades, the succes...