Identification of Infrastructural Needs for Industrial Development in Rural and Semi Urban Areas

Ambient air pollution and its exposure has been a worldwide issue and can increase the possibility of health risks especially in urban areas of developing countries having the mixture of different air pollution sources. With the increase in population, industrial development and economic prosperity, air pollution is one of the biggest concerns in Pakistan after the occurrence of recent smog episodes. The purpose of this study was to develop a land use regression (LUR) model to provide a better understanding of air exposure and to depict the spatial patterns of air pollutants within the city. Land use regression model was developed for Lahore city, Pakistan using the average seasonal concentration of NO2 and considering 22 potential predictor variables including road network, land use classification and local specific variable. Adjusted explained variance of the LUR models was highest for post-monsoon (77%), followed by monsoon (71%) and was lowest for pre-monsoon (70%). This is the first study conducted in Pakistan to explore the applicability of LUR model and hence will offer the application in other cities. The results of this study would also provide help in promoting epidemiological research in future.

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FACTORS AFFECTING URBAN AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENT IN THAI NGUYEN PROVINCE, VIET NAM

International Journal of Legal Studies ( IJOLS ) ◽

10.5604/01.3001.0015.2465 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 222-233

Author(s):

Vu Bach Diep ◽

Dinh Hong Linh ◽

Bui Thi Minh Hang

Keyword(s):

Urban Agriculture ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Industrial Development ◽

Agricultural Development ◽

Agricultural Land ◽

Primary Data ◽

Factors Affecting ◽

Infrastructure Policy ◽

Process Of Urbanization ◽

Agriculture Development

The process of urbanization is taking place fast and vigorously in large urban and peri-urban areas in Vietnam. According to national forecasts, the rate of urbanization nationwide will reach 39.3% by 2020 and 50-55% by 2035. Thai Nguyen is a province in the midland and mountainous region. The province is located at the northern gateway and bordered with Hanoi capital. In recent years, the agricultural land area of Thai Nguyen province has narrowed due to the urban-industrial development. Urban agriculture development is an inevitable direction, creating safe and high quality food products, protecting the ecological environment, and increasing people's income. Thai Nguyen is one of the provinces promoting sustainable urban agricultural development. Secondary and primary data sources are analyzed and synthesized by descriptive statistical methods. The article will analyze five groups of factors affecting urban agricultural development in Thai Nguyen province in the period 2015-2018, including Socio-economic; Natural conditions and infrastructure; Policy factors; Planning factors; Links and integration.

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Emerging Routes to Environmental Activism: Lake Erie Sportsmen and the League of Women Voters

Orbit Writing Around Pynchon ◽

10.20919/exs.3.2012.155 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 80-100

Author(s):

Terrianne Schulte

Keyword(s):

Urban Areas ◽

Industrial Development ◽

Lake Erie ◽

Direct Action ◽

The United States ◽

Water Shortages ◽

The Public ◽

National Debate ◽

League Of Women Voters ◽

Water Quality And Quantity

This paper comparatively examines how the League of Women Voters and Lake Erie sportsmen emerged to awaken the public to the pollution crisis affecting the Lake Erie watershed in the mid-twentieth century. Recognizing the degradation of the smallest of the Great Lakes due to the explosion of wartime industrial development and population growth, the League and the sportsmen commenced a decades-long struggle to clean up the lake and its tributaries through direct action in urban areas throughout the Lake Erie watershed. Disgusted by a fall in the number of fish, caused by cyanide poisoning, and the effect of oil on waterfowl, the sportsmen pressed for pollution control. The League members’ approach to water resources, on the other hand, was based on a broad and academic perspective regarding water quality and quantity in response to a series of regionally severe droughts that plagued the United States in the late 1940s and mid-1950s, and led to a national debate on water shortages and supplies. Ultimately, this paper examines two distinctly different approaches to an environmental emergency in the immediate postwar era.

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Development, Prosperity and Aspirations: A Narrative from the Peri-Urban Areas of Noida

Journal of Land and Rural Studies ◽

10.1177/23210249211051440 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 232102492110514

Author(s):

Bhawna Bali ◽

Neha Bhatia

Keyword(s):

State Government ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Industrial Development ◽

Urban Landscape ◽

Way Of Life ◽

Agrarian Economy ◽

Development Agenda ◽

Rural And Urban ◽

Economic Transformations ◽

The Cost

Urban development at city periphery as a unique process of urbanisation, manifests in distinctive spatial and socio-economic characteristics. The emergence of settlement types—an admixture of rural and urban characteristics—functionally transient between agrarian and non-agrarian economy with pervasive change in land uses and attendant livelihood sources, retreating mode of rural social norms and advancing urban way of life are remarkably obvious in peri-urban landscape of large Indian cities. The resultant socio-economic challenges for peri-urban inhabitants often create chasm between promised development agenda and their aspirations. Delving into the socio-economic transformations on account of land appropriation by the State government for urban and industrial development and ramifications of land negotiations in five peri-urban villages of Noida—this study reveals the discordant side of urbanisation benefitting urban at the cost of rural, and administrative processes which remain oblivious to the aspirations of those whose lands provided the grounds of this development agenda.

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Nutritional Value of Habitat for Moose on Urban and Military Lands

Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management ◽

10.3996/062014-jfwm-045 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 158-175 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Joseph H. Welch ◽

Perry S. Barboza ◽

Sean D. Farley ◽

Donald E. Spalinger

Keyword(s):

Urban Areas ◽

Industrial Development ◽

Ornamental Plants ◽

Habitat Type ◽

Model Potential ◽

Habitat Modification ◽

Available Nitrogen ◽

Winter Diet ◽

Nutrition And Diet ◽

Moose Population

Abstract Moose Alces alces are large and conspicuous animals valued for wildlife watching and hunting opportunities. However, near urban areas they can cause collisions with vehicles and damage to garden and ornamental plants. We studied a population of adult female moose that lives in and around both urban and industrial development on an active Army and Air Force base adjacent to Anchorage, Alaska, to evaluate nutrition and diet, map habitat quality, and model how habitat development affects the number of moose the landscape can support. Population density was moderate and hunter harvest was high in our study area, so we hypothesized that moose in our study area would be in similar condition to other healthy populations in Alaska. We also hypothesized that, in our study area, shrublands would support more moose than any other habitat type and that areas disturbed for urban development would be crucial to maintaining the local moose population. Rump fat depths, blood chemistries, and pregnancy rates in November and March for moose in our study area were consistent with populations in good to moderate condition. Microhistology of composite fecal samples indicated that willows Salix spp. dominated the summer diet, whereas the winter diet was divided among willows, birch Betula spp., and cottonwood Populus balsamifera. Low concentrations of available nitrogen in winter stems limited the number of moose that could be supported in our study area. Shrublands were the most valuable habitat type for moose, theoretically supporting 11–81 times more moose per hectare than any other habitat type. Shrublands were more concentrated within the developed portion of our study area than the surrounding undeveloped portions of the military base; and the access to shrublands in clearings, greenbelts, and parks sustains the productivity of this moose population despite the many disturbances of an urbanized landscape. Our habitat values can be used to model potential impacts of habitat modification on the number of moose the landscape can support.

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Quantifying the Impacts of Economic Progress, Economic Structure, Urbanization Process, and Number of Vehicles on PM2.5 Concentration: A Provincial Panel Data Model Analysis of China

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph16162926 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 16 (16) ◽

pp. 2926 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Haoran Zhao ◽

Sen Guo ◽

Huiru Zhao

Keyword(s):

Panel Data ◽

Data Model ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Industrial Development ◽

Anthropogenic Activities ◽

Rapid Development ◽

Economic Structure ◽

Panel Data Model ◽

Urbanization Process ◽

Economic Progress

With the rapid development of China’s economy, the environmental problems are becoming increasingly prominent, especially the PM2.5 (particulate matter with diameter smaller than 2.5 μm) concentrations that have exerted adverse influences on human health. Considering the fact that PM2.5 concentrations are mainly caused by anthropogenic activities, this paper selected economic growth, economic structure, urbanization, and the number of civil vehicles as the primary factors and then explored the nexus between those variables and PM2.5 concentrations by employing a panel data model for 31 Chinese provinces. The estimated model showed that: (1) the coefficients of the variables for provinces located in North, Central, and East China were larger than that of other provinces; (2) GDP per capita made the largest contribution to PM2.5 concentrations, while the number of civil vehicles made the least contribution; and (3) the higher the development level of a factor, the greater the contribution it makes to PM2.5 concentrations. It was also found that a bi-directional Granger causal nexus exists between PM2.5 concentrations and economic progress as well as between PM2.5 concentrations and the urbanization process for all provinces. Policy recommendations were finally obtained through empirical discussions, which include that provincial governments should adjust the economic and industrial development patterns, restrict immigration to intensive urban areas, decrease the successful proportion of vehicle licenses, and promote electric vehicles as a substitute to petrol vehicles.

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The institution and the city: the impact of hospitals and workhouses on the development of Dublin's north inner city, c. 1773–1911

Urban History ◽

10.1017/s0963926819000828 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 47 (4) ◽

pp. 671-688

Author(s):

Katherine Fennelly

Keyword(s):

Inner City ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Industrial Development ◽

Social Identities ◽

North West ◽

The North ◽

The Social ◽

Industry And Commerce ◽

The Impact ◽

The City

AbstractCities develop around industry, markets and transport links. Dublin in the nineteenth century was similar, but additionally the north-west of the city developed around the expansion of a complex of institutional buildings for the reception, confinement and welfare of the poor and sick. This article argues that these institutions were implicit in the development of the modern city in the same way as industry and commerce. The physical development of the buildings altered and defined both the streetscape and, over time, the social identities and historical communities in the locale, in the same way that industrial development defined urban areas.

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AN ANALYSIS OF DEATHS FROM RURAL AND URBAN AREAS OF ANANTHAPURAMU DISTRICT DUE TO INTENTIONAL AND UNINTENTIONAL POISONING

10.36106/paripex/9200383 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 6-8

Author(s):

Vishnu Vardhan Poluru ◽

Kathi Aswani Kishore ◽

Brahmaji Master Parigala

Keyword(s):

Urban Areas ◽

Industrial Development ◽

Holistic Approach ◽

Lower Class ◽

Developed Countries ◽

Economic Problem ◽

Medical College ◽

Rural And Urban Areas ◽

Rural And Urban ◽

Medicolegal Autopsy

BACKGROUND: Pesticides poisoning is most common in developing countries, whereas psychiatric medications top the list in developed countries. In this study, an analysis of deaths due to poisoning is done with respect to age, gender, nature of poisoning, type of poison, and socioeconomic status to propose some precautions to prevent deaths. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The present study is conducted after collecting details of 75 cases of intentional and unintentional poisoning who were brought to the Department of Forensic Medicine, Government Medical College, Ananthapuramu for medicolegal autopsy. Children were excluded from the study due to insufficient data. RESULTS: Total of 75 cases are selected to conduct the study. Organophosphorus poisoning tops the list. Most of the cases are suicidal in nature. Lower class people and males are involved mostly. CONCLUSION: Poisoning in India is a socio-economic problem. Regulation of sale of poisons cannot not prevent the incidence of cases. Hence a holistic approach is necessary to uplift society as a whole by solving the problems of poverty, unemployment, industrial development, adequate health care, suitable and sufficient education, etc.

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Heavy Metal Contamination in Soil: Sources, Accumulation in Vegetables and Remedial Measures: A Review

Agropedology ◽

10.47114/j.agroped.2020.dec9 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 30 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Sandeep Kumar ◽

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Lal Chand Malav ◽

Shiv Prasad ◽

Sunita Yadav ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Heavy Metal ◽

Toxic Metals ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Metal Contamination ◽

Industrial Development ◽

Heavy Metal Contamination ◽

Biological Activities ◽

Vegetable Production ◽

Human Beings ◽

Negative Effects

Presently, rapid industrialization and mechanization create a lot of heavy metal pollution around the globe. Both anthropogenic and natural sources are responsible for the discharge of heavy metal in the environment. Anyhow, these toxic metals reach into soil, water bodies, plants and finally to human beings through the food chain. These toxic metals create several problems in plants and living beings after intake from the soil and get accumulated in their body. Heavy metals also exhibit toxic effects on soil biological activities by affecting key microbial processes and also hamper the activities of soil microbes. Recently, due to industrial development in urban areas, heavy metal contamination has become a serious threat to peri-urban agriculture prevalent for vegetable production. There has long been a need for decontamination of these agricultural resources and prevention from the further contamination to avert the negative effects on living beings. In this article, an attempt has been made to provide an extensive understanding about different sources of heavy metal, such as zinc (Zn), copper (Cu), lead (Pb) and cadmium (Cd) etc., in agro-ecosystem and their possible risks to soil and plants. An effort has been also made to present in brief information on remediation techniques specially phytoremediation through this review.

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Methodology for determination of the priority directions for the city's industrial development

MATEC Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/matecconf/201817001129 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 170 ◽

pp. 01129

Author(s):

Ivan Palatkin ◽

Alexander Pavlov ◽

Alexander Kudryavtsev

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Industrial Development ◽

Machine Building ◽

Social Significance ◽

Theory To Practice ◽

The Face ◽

The Russian Federation ◽

The City

In the face of new global challenges, the economic and social significance of territorial problems in the Russian Federation has received a different, extremely acute meaning. The crisis and shortage of the budgets of most of the municipal formations in the country predetermine the shift of problems of ensuring sustainable development of urban areas from theory to practice. The purpose of this study is to develop a methodology for determination of the priority directions for the city's industrial development. The paper analyzes the principles of sustainable development in the field of urban planning and spatial planning, outlines the mechanisms for stimulating economic growth in cities and the ways to determine the priority directions of the city's industrial development. The authors carried out a practical testing of the proposed methodology on the example of the city of Penza. Recommendations for a more complete use of the potential of the machine-building industry are developed.

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