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Greater Cairo and ambient air pollution in the city? And what are the effects of-one, the opening in recent years of another … metro line and an extension to it, and two, the recent increases in fuel prices-on vehicle density and ambient air pollution? …
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Air pollution from vehicular traffic is a major source of health damage in urban areas. The problems of urban traffic … and pollution are essentially geographic, because their incidence and impacts depend on the spatial distribution of … vehicle traffic, air pollution, and exposure of vulnerable residents in the Dar es Salaam metro region of Tanzania. The …
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New research on urban air pollution casts doubt on the conventional view of the relationship between economic growth … and environmental quality. This view holds that pollution automatically increases until societies reach middle … countries. As the authors show in this paper, the empirical relationship between pollution and income becomes much weaker when …
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New research on urban air pollution casts doubt on the conventional view of the relationship between economic growth … and environmental quality. This view holds that pollution automatically increases until societies reach middle … show in this paper, the empirical relationship between pollution and income becomes much weaker when measures of governance …
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The World Health Organization attributes about 3.3 million annual premature deaths to outdoor air pollution in low- and … middle-income countries. Comprehensive pollution monitoring in urban areas has been too costly for many developing countries …; yet sparse information has hindered cost-effective pollution management strategies. Global information technologies offer …
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Female education and family planning are both critical for sustainable development, and they obviously merit expanded support without any appeal to global climate considerations. However, even relatively optimistic projections suggest that family planning and female education will suffer from...
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