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Dynamic causality between CO₂ emissions, urbanization and economic growth in India and South Africa

Singh, Gopal Ji; Singh, Pawan Kumar; Kumar, Rakesh; … - 2026

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Urbanization, economic activity, and electricity consumption in Jordan : evidence from the ARDL approach

Alawneh, Ateyah - 2026

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Growth under rising pressure: weather shocks in sub-Saharan African cities

Reinhardt, Robert - 2026

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Resilient cities in the global south : rethinking informality in urban planning and design

2026

Post-pandemic, cities face new challenges in adapting to global changes, while also addressing the needs, practices, and capabilities of diverse populations. Resilience, as a key factor, enables cities to adapt and transform in response to these challenges. Development driven by resilience is...

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Resilient cities in the global south : rethinking informality in urban planning and design

2026

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Electrifying mobility reshapes cities, energy demand, and emissions in emerging economies

Berger, Julius; Creutzig, Felix; Marz, Waldemar - 2026

EV adoption in emerging economies (lower-middle income, fast urbanization and income growth) mitigates emissions of greenhouse gases and local pollutants from gasoline consumption, but at the same time exacerbates urban sprawl. This implies longer driving distances for commuting and non-work...

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Inclusive urban futures : from inequality to opportunity

2026

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Scenarios for universal electricity access with spatial changes in urbanisation : the case of Kenya

Omondi, Cynthia; Njoka, Francis; Tonini, Francesco; … - 2026

Kenya has one of the fastest electrification rates in Sub-Saharan Africa. Despite the increase in electrification rates, rural and underserved regions remain a critical challenge requiring a cost-effective strategy that maximises the use of stand-alone and off-grid solutions. This paper uses the...

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Comprehensive analysis of energy consumption and spatial heterogeneity in urban fringe towns and subdistricts

Fu, Bo; Li, Hongqing; Yang, Zheng; Xue, Bing; Gang, Shuang - 2026

Against the background of addressing climate change and promoting low-carbon development, accurately characterizing the spatial distribution of regional energy consumption at the micro-scale holds significant importance. As major hubs for population agglomeration and industrial transition, urban...

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Housing for a resilient urban future in Indonesia

2026

While Indonesia's rapid urbanisation has gone hand in hand with economic growth, housing remains a critical challenge. Around 29.2 million family units in Indonesia do not have a home or live in inadequate housing conditions. At the same time, Indonesian cities are facing growing environmental...

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Country profiles on urban development, housing and land management : Montenegro

2026

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The post-fentanyl urbanization of the opioid epidemic

Kucera, Alexander; Scavette, Adam; Porreca, Zachary - 2026

The geography of the U.S. opioid epidemic has shifted repeatedly across epidemic waves. After a period in which overdose mortality increasingly burdened rural and suburban communities, the fentanyl era appears to have redirected the crisis toward dense urban cores. Here, we document a post-2015...

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Invisible immigrants? : urbanisation, co-national density and the legal integration of refugees

Cole, Matthew A.; Koster, Hans; Ozgen, Ceren; Yumoto, Hiromi - 2026

Using the quasi-random allocation of refugees and detailed administrative data, we examine the effect of urban density on refugees' decisions to naturalise. Our results indicate that refugees assigned to urban areas are more likely to naturalise, largely due to a higher density of co-national...

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Authoritarian urbanism in peripheral cities : more-than-neoliberal urban policies in Saransk, Russia

Trivin, Clotilde - 2026

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An equity-driven adaptation framework for urban flooding in India

Sarkar, Soma - 2026

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Back to the countryside? : $remote work and counterurbanisation in Denmark and Sweden

Javakhishvili-Larsen, Nino; Eliasson, Kent; Westlund, Hans - 2026

This study examines migration from Copenhagen and Stockholm's capital city areas (CCA) to rural destinations (2014-2023), focusing on migrant characteristics, COVID-19's impact, and the role of remote work. Utilising longitudinal micro-register data and logistic regression, we analyse...

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Navigating the complexities of healthcare costs in Bangladesh : a closer look at environmental quality, economic growth, energy use, industrialization, urbanization, and forest area

Asif Raihan; Ridwan, Mohammad; Rahman, Syed Masiur; … - 2026

Bangladesh is grappling with the challenge of balancing public health with pollution reduction. The current research seeks to analyze the relationships between ecological indicators and health expenditure and to provide policy suggestions to enhance environmental conditions and minimize...

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Agglomeration and firm-level productivity in African cities

Visagie, Justin; Turok, Ivan - 2026

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Dairy farming and the rural exodus

Andersson, Jonatan; Ulväng, Göran - 2026

This article studies the role of disamenity work in the rural sector in the shift in the urban sector and growth of cities. We focus on the effects of dairy farming, a sector with famously harsh working conditions, in Sweden around the turn of the twentieth century on rural-urban migration,...

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Lessons from the East : rethinking urban mass ecotourism from a contemporary sustainability perspective

Sudipta Kiran Sarkar; Butcher, Jim - 2026

Recent events including the pandemic have prompted reflection on the future of sustainability in tourism. It necessitated "proximity tourism" - effectively, staying closer to home and discovering the proximate environment, the only tourism allowed for the mass of people. A form of proximate...

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Mobilising and scaling up local climate action

Putz, Lena-Marie; Haaren, Paula von; Berger, Axel; … - 2026

As the world approaches global warming tipping points, local climate engagement aims at climate actions that are equitable, effective and aligned with local needs. Strengthening and scaling up these initiatives can amplify impact, though efforts are often fragmented and require strengthened...

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Urbanization and educational attainment : evidence from Africa

Maarseveen, Raoul van - 2026

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Birthplace urbanicity and lifetime labor-market outcomes : evidence from forced migration due to World War II

Möller, Joachim - 2026

During and after World War II, West Germany absorbed around eight million refugees and displaced persons. We use the resulting forced migration as a natural experiment to examine whether birthplace characteristics retained long-run relevance after the spatial link between birthplace and...

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The effect of urbanization on environmental emissions : evidence from a meta-analysis

Afesorgbor, Sylvanus Kwaku; Demena, Binyam Afewerk - 2026

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When does urbanisation drive climate transition? : Leveraging financialisation and taxation for UK's environmental change

Musah, Mohammed Mansa; Sikayena, Isaiah; Prempeh, … - 2026

This study investigates how financialisation and taxation shape the relationship between urbanisation and methane (CH4) emissions in the United Kingdom. Using Kernel Regularised Least Squares (KRLS) and Quantile-on-Quantile Regression (QQR) techniques to capture nonlinearities and distributional...

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South Sudan Urbanization Review - Cities as Anchors of Recovery and Resilience

2026

This report comes at a critical moment in the development of our nation, as South Sudan continues to experience rapid urban growth in a context marked by fragility, displacement, climate vulnerability, weak infrastructure, and institutional constraints. The Review provides a timely, evidence...

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Impact of globalization, energy consumption, economic growth, urbanization and trade openness on environmental degradation : evidence from pakistan

Khan, Imran; Al-Jabri, Qadri Mohd.; Farooq, Muhammad; … - 2026

This study investigates the impact of globalization, energy consumption, economic growth, urbanization, and trade openness on environmental degradation in case of Pakistan. The dynamic autoregressive distributed lag (DARDL) technique was applied to measure the short- and long-term estimates,...

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Structural transformation and the dynamics of well-being : evidence from a global panel

Morales Vergara, José Roberto; Balladares Ponguillo, … - 2026

Structural transformation is widely considered a key driver of economic development; however, its contribution to multidimensional well-being remains unclear. This study analyzes the relationship between structural transformation and well-being using an unbalanced panel of 150 countries from...

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IT and urban polarization

Eeckhout, Jan; Hedtrich, Christoph; Pinheiro, Roberto - 2026

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IT and Urban Polarization

Eeckhout, Jan; Hedtrich, Christoph; Pinheiro, Roberto - 2021

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Circular economy strategies for zero-waste cities in East Africa : policy pathways, energy recovery potential, and urban sustainability transitions

Bai, Li; Xue, Qian; Song, Wei; John, Alex - 2026

East Africa is experiencing rapid urbanization and economic development which is increasing the production of municipal solid waste (MSW) that has increased a strain on urban infrastructure, environmental systems and already limited energy networks. The existing linear models of...

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Mining, transfers, and urbanization : what reduced income inequality in Mongolia?

Zagdbazar, Manlaibaatar - 2026

Mongolia, a resource-rich economy, experienced a substantial decline in income inequality between 2007 and 2022: the Gini coefficient dropped from 0.44 to 0.32. Using nationally representative Household Socio-Economic Survey microdata, we analyze disposable household income, including imputed...

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Quality of life in cities : towards unified interregional perspectives

2026

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Cities, factories, and energy : how urbanization and industrialization shape renewable and fossil fuel use$devidence from a developing economy

Sikayena, Isaiah; Abokyi, Eric; Boateng, Felix Ofosu; … - 2026

As cities expand and industries grow, energy demand surges, but what fuels this transformation? Do urbanization and industrialization in developing economies accelerate a shift toward renewables, or do they deepen reliance on fossil fuels? This study examines the impacts of urbanization and...

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Urban sprawl and rurbanization : implications for dietary quality in Malawi

Kafotokoza, Joshua; Ameye, Hannah; Qaim, Matin - 2026

Urbanization contributes to changing food environments in sub-Saharan Africa, yet the implications for people's diets and nutrition remain insufficiently understood. Using four waves of nationally representative panel data from Malawi (2010-2019), we examine how local urbanization is associated...

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Growing sustainability : analysis of socioecological drivers of urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) under multiple framework assessments ; a review

Guzman-Molina, Jairo; Orou Sannou, Ramoudane; Caucci, Serena - 2026

As urban populations grow, ensuring the safety and welfare of city residents becomes increasingly important. Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture (UPA) systems offer a promising solution to cities' pressing food security needs by addressing socio-economic challenges and urban sustainability gaps....

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Integrating macro-micro perspectives to measure urban land expansion in Minsk, Belarus

Chen, Lingwei; Gong, Chen; Guo, Yike; Guo, Yunqi; Su, … - 2026

Urban expansion is pivotal in global urbanization, influencing human development and environmental sustainability. However, understanding urban growth dynamics, particularly the interaction between macro-level urban form and micro-level land use change, remains incomplete. This study analyzes...

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Urban policy for sustainable development in the Global South : new strategies for new challenges

2026

Chapter 1. Rethinking Urban Policies in the Global South - Challenges and Prospects (Debolina Kundu) -- Chapter 2. What is the Case for Urban Policy? (Keith Kintrea) -- Chapter 3. COVID-19, Density and Southern Urbanism (David Everatt) -- Chapter 4. Urban Policy and Implementation in India:...

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Urban Planning and Vertical Urbanization

Kondo, Keisuke; Okubo, Toshihiro - 2026

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Economic growth, service sector, and urbanization effects on environmental degradation in Uzbekistan : evidence from ARDL analysis

Achilova, Firuza; Rizaev, Nurbek; Xolmurotov, Fozil; … - 2026

Balancing economic growth with environmental sustainability remains a serious challenge for many transition economies. This study analyzes the relationship between economic growth, service sector expansion, urbanization, and environmental degradation in Uzbekistan. Employing yearly temporal...

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Reshaping urban governance : vertical adaptation of the integrated LRF model through urban village renewal in Hangzhou, China

Sun, Yan; Li, Mingyan; Hu, Wenjie; Xia, Xinqu - 2026

This article analyzes the transformation of urban governance in China by examining the vertical adaptation of the integrated Land, Revenue, and Financing (LRF) model, using Hangzhou's urban village renewal campaign (2016-2021) as a case study. Facing intensifying regulatory, fiscal, and spatial...

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A systematic review of urban informality research from an urbanization crisis context perspective

Chen, Xuan; Ding, Zhuhui; Zhang, Chenyu; Yang, Juntao; … - 2026

Coping with the multifaceted crises of contemporary urbanization necessitates a more com-prehensive understanding of the diverse patterns of urbanization. Among these, urban informality, as an archetypal model of urbanization, has emerged as an important way to foster sustainable development on...

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Density scenarios and urban expansion in Africa towards 2050

San Emeterio, José-Luis - 2026

Urbanisation is one of the major socio economic transformations underway in Africa. According to Africapolis data, the continent's urban population is projected to double from 700 million to 1.4 billion between 2020 and 2050, profoundly transforming Africa's urban areas and their peripheries....

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Agglomeration and sector composition across cities : evidence from China

Bai, Yuting - 2026

This paper studies the spatial distribution of economic activities across urban hierarchy from an agglomeration perspective by constructing a new economic geography model with manufacturing and service sectors, two types of labor with perfect geographical mobility, and two regions. Holding the...

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Sustainable urban expansion and land use dynamics in North Bengal's urban and peri-urban areas : a trajectory-based forecasting approach

Ansari, Najib; Rukhsana - 2026

Rapid urbanisation is reshaping landscapes worldwide, with peri-urban areas facing especially intense pressure as cities expand outward. According to the United Nations' World Urbanisation Prospects, the global urban population is projected to rise from 30 % in the 1950s to 66 % by 2050,...

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Residential electricity use scales superlinearly with city size in China

Shen, Xinyi; Zhang, Siyuan; Zhu, Mengyan; Zeng, Xiang; … - 2026

Urban scaling laws measure how urban quantities scale with population size. Residential electricity consumption, being fundamentally tied to basic household needs, is often assumed to scale linearly with population. However, empirical studies have reported divergent scaling behaviors for...

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Incentives and the city : towards a theory of urban governance

Li, Yue; Martimort, David; Rama, Martín; Straub, Stéphane - 2026

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Holistic urban mobility assessment in urban centers : developing an integrated digital twin tool for Tec District

Huertas, José Ignacio; Chaparro Sierra, Luisa Fernanda; … - 2026

Urban mobility, air pollution, and climate change are critical concerns in contemporary city planning. This study presents the development and application of MAITEC®, a digital twin model designed to assess and enhance mobility and air quality within urban centers. The digital twin is designed...

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Effects of urban expansion's quantity, intensity, and pattern on carbon storage : a multi-scale spatial analysis

Song, Shixiong; Shi, Qingqing; Song, Wenzhao; Ma, Yongxi - 2026

Investigating how urban land use change affect carbon storage provides notable practical implications for orderly regional urban expansion and sustainable development. However, current research exhibits inconsistencies in assessing how urban expansion patterns affect carbon storage. This study...

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Food environment, dietary patterns, and anthropometric outcomes of women in the Indian rural-urban interface

Ekaba, Michael; Katiganere Purushotham, Anjali; … - 2026

Urbanisation in low- and middle-income countries has created complex transformations in food environments. Particularly in the space between rural and urban areas, food environments, occupation structures, lifestyles, and dietary patterns undergo constant changes with important implications for...

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Privilege in migration : mobilities, inequalities, and the urban context

2026

This open access book explores the transnational mobility of privileged migrants. The notion of ‘privilege’ has the merit of bringing to light various less-studied forms of migration, such as retirement, lifestyle, investment, amenity, elite, highly skilled and international residential...

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Spatio-temporal growth and urban polycentricity of secondary cities : the case of Khulna, Bangladesh

Morshed, Md. Manjur; Al Mujtabe, Abdullah; Tahmid, Tahdia - 2026

Urban polycentric development is increasingly relevant for rapidly growing secondary cities, yet empirical evidence from such contexts remains limited. This study explores the spatio-temporal transition of polycentricity of Khulna, a secondary city of Bangladesh, by specifying its historic core...

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