Armed conflict remains a significant global issue, with several studies highlighting its detrimental impact on the affected communities, making it a critical area of research. This study aimed to examine the effects of prolonged armed conflict on food security among urban households in Tigray,...

A key reason for the existence of cities are the externalities created when people cluster together in close proximity. During Covid, such interactions came with health risks and people found other ways to interact. We document how cities changed during Covid and consider how the persistence of...

This paper examines the effects of floods on urban development dynamics using geolocalized data on the universe of buildings in Spain from 1996 to 2021. We provide empirical evidence that floods foster local urban development and yield taller, more compact urban layouts, attracting populations,...

As the world continues struggling with climate change, it is important to better understand the causes, trends, and beneficial steps that can be taken for improvement. In this paper, we propose a new measure --that we refer to as "Urban Scaling Factor"-- connecting a country's per-capita CO2...

Knowledge of long-term population trends is still incomplete at the global scale. In this perspective, human and animal ecology has intensively studied the relationship between the Mean (M) size and the Variance (V) of specific attributes of subpopulations within a given regional system. One of...

The purpose of the study is to monitor, on a regular basis, the quality of life in European cities. The results of the study show how satisfied citizens are with various aspects of urban life, such as employment opportunities, presence of foreigners, public transport and pollution in their...

This technical report provides technical information about the implementation of the 2023 Perception Survey on the Quality of Life in European Cities. It accompanies the Evaluation Report, which discusses in more detail the methodology, execution and performance of the survey.

In depopulating cities, vacant houses and lots are common throughout the urban area, creating low-density urban areas that can lead to inefficiencies in public services and financial deterioration for municipalities. However, despite some studies demonstrating the relationship between population...

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region is vulnerable to the effects of climate change. However, urbanization and energy supply are essential to the ASEAN economy. This study examines the effects of CO2 emissions and urban population on GDP per capita in 10 ASEAN countries from...

This report presents the main findings from the sixth survey on the quality of life of European cities. The survey covers 83 cities across the EU, European Free Trade Association (EFTA) countries, the United Kingdom, the western Balkans and Türkiye and allows for comparison with the last...

Public finance lies at the heart of politics. It shapes citizens’ political attitudes and behaviors. While the expenditure side has been studied very extensively, the income side has been neglected, especially in authoritarian regimes. Taking China as an ideal case, we use a nation-wide random...

This research was gave consideration on the pattern of urban resident energy utilization among the residents of Bule Hora Town. Energy has a crucial role in our daily life, agriculture, industry, and social services. Conversely, large energy utilization effect would bring climate change,...

Despite the overwhelming research and useful outcomes on the relationship between hydropower consumption, urban population growth, and environmental quality, the empirical studies have mostly relied on partial indicators of environmental quality and employed conventional econometric models in...

Urban density boosts productivity and innovation, improves access to goods and services, reduces typical travel distances, encourages energy-efficient construction and transport, and facilitates sharing scarce amenities. However, density is also synonymous with crowding, makes living and moving...

Urban poor societies were a vulnerable group. Once they are sick, they fall deeper into poverty. National Health Insurance (NHI) is a way the government initiated to overcome this situation. We analyzed the factor related to NHI membership among urban poor societies. The study population...

This paper investigates consumption pattern of rural and urban households in Afghanistan. Over the years, the economy has undergone significant structural shifts. Millions of households have experienced dramatic welfare transformation causing substantial changes in the consumption pattern. The...

Job-related welfare entitlements are common in China. Migrants who do not hold urban registration are, in principle, not entitled to job-related welfare even if they are employees in the State sector. The official explanation is that rural-urban migrants are allocated access to farm land in...

According to Gibrat’s law for cities, population shocks have permanent effects on city size. I examine this implication by analysing the persistence of observed population shocks: German military casualties in WWI by municipality of birth. I find a strong negative effect of military casualties...

Density in urban areas is not a simple concept. It can be defined in a variety of ways. This paper presents alternative measures of urban density and compares how they perform across a set of 59 large urban areas in the United States in 2010. Population and housing unit densities show similar...

Die fortschreitende Urbanisierung und immer drängendere Nachhaltigkeitsfragen finden ihren Niederschlag in neuen Ansätzen einer nachhaltigen Stadtentwicklung. Die New Urban Agenda der Vereinten Nationen bildet hierbei eine internationale Roadmap und verfolgt dabei den Erhalt der planetaren...

Over the past decades, China has witnessed a fast growth in urbanization promoted by massive flows of rural-to-urban migration. This study investigates the association between urbanization and the subjective well-being of migrant, rural, and urban populations, and also examines how urbanization...