Rapid urbanization

Part 1 of ebook "Building sustainability in East Asia: Policy, design, and people" provides readers with contents including: Chapter 1 - Introduction; Chapter 2 - Rapid urbanisation; Chapter 3 - Urban environmental challenges; Chapter 4 - Quest for solutions; Chapter 5 - Policy framework; Chapter 6 - Policy implementation; Chapter 7 - Sustainability transformation;...

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Ebook "Highway and urban environment: Proceedings of the 9th highway and urban environment symposium" aim was to measure and assess challenges in highway pollution, with a strong emphasis on urban photochemical smog, ozone formation and particle release. After the first symposium, the emphasis on air pollution issues continued through to Munich in 1989 where diesel particulate issues and the relevance to health through measurements of PM10 emerged.

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Rapid urbanization that lead to busier lifestyles with longer work hours has increased consumer demand for convenient restaurants. Since Indonesia has a large Muslim population, this research aims to find out the demand for halal certified restaurants by analyzing the influential factors involved in consumer decision to patronize halal certified restaurants based on the Theory of Planned Behavior.

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This paper evaluates sustainable urban bus service quality based on passenger perception and expectation in local tourism destinations in order to attain a comprehension of tourists’ attitudes towards local public transport. The study focuses on the combination of route 101 and 102 by Rapid Penang bus to investigate passenger satisfaction because the bus is the main public transport used by most tourist who use both routes. Data collection by questionnaire survey from 201 valid questionnaires was analysed using sustainable assessment model for both routes.

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The study "Application of remote sensing and GIS to establish surface temperature map of Phu Tho province" used Landsat 8 images to calculate the surface temperature of Phu Tho province. The data used in the study are Landsat 8 images combined with geographical data of the area. Calculation results of Phu Tho province’s surface temperature range from 26.79-46.32°C. Places with high temperatures are concentrated in the city. Viet Tri is a place with high population density and rapid urbanization. The temperature in the high mountains is relatively cool.

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In this study, the flooding situation caused by the groups in the planning period (from 2010 to 2020) will be assessed and mapped by using GIS. The results show that, in the period from 2016 to 2021, flooding by heavy precipitation was more serious than that by tidal current.

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In recent years, the topics of urban logistics and consumer behaviour have attracted considerable interest from researchers and practitioners. As cities rapidly urbanize and customer service expectations increase, the corpus of research on these topics has become fragmented. This article is interested to describe the impact of consumption patterns on urban goods transport, we have also taken the opportunity to detail the different situations of e-commerce delivery.

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Changes like the rapid increase in urbanization, population growth, developing gender sensitivity roles and the breakthroughs in science and technology would cause stress and added challenges to nurses working in high functioning health facilities. The many changes in society will certainly need nurses’ utmost struggle to respond to these pressure and stress.

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Leptospirosis is a common zoonosis, an infectious disease that infects both humans and animals, which is caused by spirochete bacteria from genus Leptospira. Approximately 30% of children in urban Detroit and 16% of adults in Baltimore demonstrated serologic evidence of previous leptospirosis infections. The Detroit study showed correlation between degree of rat infestation and seropositivity rates.

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Adolescent constitute about 20% of the total population, during this period they experiment for their adult identity and transition from dependence to independence. This leads to development of feeling of awkwardness and development of malnutrition among them. The malnutrition during this period affects their later life i.e., adulthood and old age.

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The article attempted to examine the influences of social and economic determinants on poverty in seven Southeast Asian countries, namely Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand, Timor-Leste, and Vietnam, between 1996 and 2013 using a panel dataset.

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Nghi Son economic zone is one of the key industrial economic zones of Thanh Hoa in particular and the country in general. The article also contributes to building a system of solutions and models to solve livelihood problems for farmers who suffered from the recovery of agricultural land.

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The rapid global population growth leads to considerable rising consumption of natural resources such as air, water, and land. The demand for land has increased in the last two decades, both inland and seaside. Land reclamation along with the coastline has been preferred as a solution for modern urban development, such as three land reclamation projects in Rach-Gia Bay, the Vietnamese Mekong Delta.

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In Sub-Saharan African countries, rapid urbanization and increasing socio-economic status are associated with a transition to decreased physical activity (PA). A more sedentary lifestyle is linked to increased body fat leading to increments in leptin levels.

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Understanding how urban environments influence people’s health, especially as individuals age, can help identify ways to improve health in the rapidly urbanizing and rapidly aging populations.

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Thai youths are living in the midst of rapid cultural change and increasing intercultural exchange. To some extent, they have adopted different foreign cultures, assimilated and synthesized them in order to create a way of life which belongs to Thai people. Thus, the question of Thai culture is more complicated than it seems to be. It is the fact that transformation of Thai culture would be regretted by some, welcomed by others.

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As the global burden of disease evolves, lower-resource countries like Nepal face a double burden of non-communicable and infectious disease. Rapid adaptation is required for Nepal’s health system to provide life-long, person-centred care while simultaneously improving quality of infectious disease services.

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The strategy for sustainable transportation development in Vietnam nowadays is focusing on public transport as the most important and long term solution. Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) has been designed and carried out in Hanoi. It will be carried out in Hochiminh city and Danang in the near future. There are issues to be considered.

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The Hanoi authority has been promoting the construction and completion of the Urban Mass Rapid Transit system, both BRT and urban railway. The idea of land value capture for economic development in areas around public transport systems is quite popular around the world. This is considered an effective approach to urban development planning in the big cities.

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The rapid development in the economy and the urban population in cities in Vietnam in recent years leads to dramatic growth in traffic congestion, noise and air pollution, and environmental degradation. This paper presents a back analysis for the stability of the tunnelling process in the project.

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