Can cities continue to grow without destroying Earth? A new paper from ICTA-UAB, Spain, offers insight into this complex ...

Introduction Cancer is a leading cause of death in China. Rural-to-urban migrants are a group of over 260 million people in China sometimes termed the ‘floating’ population. This study assessed the ...

The Nation Newspaper Empower rural populations for national growth, First Lady urges on World Rural Development Day ...

Americans increasingly understand ourselves and our country through the lens of an urban versus rural divide. ​​Yet this ...

Three distinct scenarios are proposed and tested, one rural and two urban scenarios in Portugal. The maximum communication range achieved was 5660 meters for the rural scenario and around 2000 meters ...

Since 1970, 73% of global wildlife has been lost, while the world's population has doubled to 8 billion. Research shows this ...

While rural development is finally being celebrated in principle, in practice it remains chronically underfunded.

To better understand current trends of urban population growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, high-quality spatiotemporal population estimates are necessary. While the joint use of remote sensing and deep ...