The authors expand the STIRPAT model to empirically analyse the effects of China’s urbanization and urban sprawl on CO2 emissions from 1997 to 2018 in order to identify policy recommendations for addressing both how to reduce China’s carbon and how to encourage future low-carbon development.
In this paper, the authors estimate the GHGs across the contiguous United States and clarify the respective influence of climate, affluence, energy infrastructure, urban form, and building attributes (age, housing type, heating fuel) in driving these emissions.
In this paper, the author concludes that the natural environment is consequential for the sociospatial organization of communities and that a disaster declaration has little impact on mitigating this driver of neighborhood inequality.
The aim of this work was to analyse a population's vulnerability and resilience to climate‐related hazards, applying a sex‐disaggregated, quantitative methodology at household level in three Woredas (Siraro, Shalla, and Shashemene) of the Oromia Region in Ethiopia.
Based on mixed‐methods fieldwork in north‐western Nicaragua, we find that rather than produce remittance landscapes, or an abandonment of agriculture, subsistence migration,” or mobility to maintain small‐scale agriculture as a food security strategy, help families to persist in agriculture in a context of worsening environmental and structural conditions.
This paper aims to contribute to broader theoretical knowledge on urban vulnerability and resilience in the face of climate change and rapid urbanization, by applying participatory modelling techniques to a particular case study of an informal settlement in Durban, South Africa.
The authors developed a robust empirical approach based on a correlated random effects model and a prefecture‐level panel dataset which allows to account for both within province migration flows and prefecture‐specific characteristics, to study the role of local climate conditions in spurring interregional migration in China over the period 2000 to 2010.
The authors study how onshore oil spills affect neonatal and infant mortality by combining spatial data from the Nigerian Oil Spill Monitor with Demographic and Health Surveys. They compare siblings born to the same mother, conceived before and after a nearby oil spill, to identify a causal effect. The results show that nearby oil spills that occur before conception increase neonatal mortality by 38.3 deaths per 1,000 live births, which corresponds to an increase of around 100% on the sample mean.
In this paper, a simple core–periphery model with monocentric cities was established to study the impact of the urban evolution on the environment. Results from the analysis is that an urban system with cities of balanced size generates less GHG emissions than the prevailing one with a strong core‐periphery asymmetry and that market forces prevailing in the urban system alone do not suffice to generate an EKC.
The authors used coastal Bangladesh as case study, and extracted data from a seasonal 1500-household survey to generate a mobility index for households living in five coastal villages on the highly-exposed southwest coast.
