The world region most affected is East Asia and the Pacific, where between 1985 and 2015, the share of settlements at risk of severe flooding increased from 7.8% to 9.5%. Around the world, just 5. ...

China watchers are all abuzz about urbanization, which is supposed to be a focus of reform. But what does the term mean? A preview of a report China's planning agency is planning to publish later ...

Bird communities threatened by urbanization Date: August 24, 2021 Source: University of Göttingen Summary: Urbanization is one of the most drastic forms of land-use change. Its negative ...

Yet, rapid, unsustainable urbanization has often resulted in growing urban poverty disproportionately affecting families and children. At the extreme, an estimated 300 million of the global ...

A new report says China has accelerated the forced urbanization of Tibetan herders and villagers, adding to existing reports of efforts to control their culture and language to assimilate them.

Urbanization: expanding opportunities, but deeper divides 21 February 2020 Whether the process of urbanization is harnessed and managed, or allowed to fuel growing divides, will largely determine ...

In a global survey of white clover – a widely distributed cosmopolitan plant common in many rural and urban areas worldwide – researchers find evidence that clover populations can adapt to ...

The fingerprint of urbanization can also be detected in hurricanes. As I did with fires, I will start with the most obvious way. Impervious surfaces like parking lots and roadways modify the ...

Daniel H. Rosen is the principal of Rhodium Group, an advisory firm focusing on China, and is also a visiting fellow with the Peterson Institute for International Economics and an adjunct ...