Existing literature is characterized by certain deficiencies in measuring housing bubbles in China. By extending the analytical framework of Black et al. (2006) to a spatial panel VAR structure, this paper measures housing bubbles in China¡¯s 35 major cities from 1999Q2 to 2012Q3 and analyzes...

Kolkata is one of the cities located in the eastern parts of India and experiences rapid urban growth. Because of the rapid urbanization, land use and land cover are changing very rapidly in which impacts on the local land resources and the surface temperature of Kolkata are much higher than its...

The preparation process of an impending earthquake may leave fingerprints on the earth’s surface. Elastic strain in rocks, formation of micro-cracks, gas releases and other chemical or physical activities in the earth’s crust before and during earthquakes has been reported to cause rises in...

Our aim was to develop a remote sensing-based forest fire danger forecasting system (FFDFS) and its implementation in forecasting 2011 fire season in the Canadian province of Alberta. The FFDFS used Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)-derived 8-day composites of surface...

The melting thermal performances of MEPCM (microencapsulated phase-change material) composite plates were investigated experimentally. The effects of MEPCM particle fraction in the plate, PCM core fraction in a single MEPCM particle, volume fraction of high thermal conductivity additives on the...

This study focuses on the potential impacts of large-scale land use and land cover changes (LUCC) on surface temperature from a global perspective. As important types of LUCC, urbanization, deforestation, cultivated land reclamation, and grassland degradation have effects on the climate, the...

This paper examines the time series properties of sea level rise and the surface temperature data along the Barrier Coast of Nigeria. In particular, we focus on the seasonality and the degree of persistence of the series, measured in terms of seasonal and non-seasonal unit roots along with...

This paper examines the proposition that the climatic shift has been responsible for creating adverse effects on economic growth, and the authors have analysed this situation for India. They consider the number of oceanic storms in the Indian Ocean and the annual mean temperature of India for...