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...

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...