This book will speak to the new human epoch, the Urban Age. A majority of humanity now
lives for the first time in cities. The city, the highest invention of the modern age, is now the …

We present a large-scale static and deterministic mixed-integer linear programming (MILP)
model solving a two-echelon capacitated location-routing problem (2E-CLRP) with modal …

Background Although urbanization is often an important topic in climate change studies, the
complex effect of urbanization on heat vulnerability in urban and rural areas has rarely been …

Understanding environmental disease risk factor analysis at the district level is essential for
gaining valuable insights into regional disease variations, offering a broader perspective …

Abstract Background South Korea experienced the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19)
outbreak in the early period; thus data from this country could provide significant implications …

Irreversible conversion of farmland to built-up land occurs globally. Despite farmlands'
importance for food supply agricultural businesses, little research investigates what …

This paper responds primarily to current innovations that have emerged in urban
development policy during the last decades also in East-Central Europe. Prior to the change …

In the last week of October 2012 the largest Atlantic storm on record cut a swathe through
human affairs. Hurricane Sandy devastated large tracts of the heavily urbanized Atlantic …

Au cours des vingt dernières années, la science économique a accompli des progrès
importants dans sa capacité de description et d'analyse de l'évolution des territoires. Les …