Since the 1990s, urban regeneration has emerged as main initiative of European Territorial Development Strategy. A series integrated policies have subsequently been implemented to redress socio-territorial imbalance in areas by improving structure opportunities available inhabitants. The aim current paper is evaluate effect such proximity on “essential retail trade” neighborhoods Andalusia. qua...

As a result of rapid urbanization and population movement, flooding in urban areas has become one the most common types natural disaster, causing huge losses both life property. To mitigate prevent damage caused by recent increase floods, number measures are required, such as installing flood prevention facilities, or specially managing vulnerable to flooding. In this study, we presented techni...

The 2013 Partial Amendment of the Disaster Countermeasures Basic Law mandated that a roster of vulnerable persons during disasters be created, and further development of evacuation support is expected. In this study, the number of vulnerable people living in target analytical areas are identified in terms of neighborhood units by using the National Health Insurance Database to create a realisti...

Natural hazards threaten everybody living in vulnerable areas. With the increasing concentration of people, infrastructure and facilities in them, urban areas are becoming particularly vulnerable to hazards (Pelling 2003, Perrow 2007). Hazards become disasters when they impact on human beings and their artefacts. The people and institutions involved include, amongst others, those participating ...

Including threats in spatial conservation prioritization helps identify areas for conservation actions where biodiversity is at imminent risk of extinction. At the global level, an important limitation when identifying spatial priorities for conservation actions is the lack of information on the spatial distribution of threats. Here, we identify spatial conservation priorities under three promi...

Emerging influential contributors (EICs) on social media platforms—meteorologists, news reporters, journalists, and employees of public sector agencies—play a pivotal role in disaster information warning by consistently disseminating situational public. However, the fairness Influential Contributors' (EICs') attention to different urban areas when posting has not been examined. It is unknown wh...