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United States micropolitan statistical areas (μSA, where the initial Greek letter mu represents “micro-“), as defined by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), are labor market and statistical areas in the United States centered on an urban cluster (urban area) with a population of at least 10,000 but fewer than 50,000 people. The micropolitan area designation was created in 2003. Like the better-known metropolitan statistical areas, a micropolitan area is a geographic entity used for statistical purposes based on counties and county equivalents. The OMB has identified 543 micropolitan areas in the United States.

The term “micropolitan” gained currency in the 1990s to describe growing population centers in the United States that are removed from larger cities, in some cases by 100 miles (160 km) or more.

Micropolitan cities do not have the economic or political importance of large cities, but are nevertheless significant centers of population and production, drawing workers and shoppers from a wide local area. Because the designation is based on the core urban cluster’s population and not on that of the whole area, some micropolitan areas are actually larger than some metropolitan areas.

For example, the Ottawa, IL Micropolitan Statistical Area had a 2010 census population of 154,908. That would put its total population ahead of roughly 100 individual locations classified as a metropolitan statistical area in 2010. The largest of the areas, around Claremont and Lebanon, New Hampshire, had a population in excess of 218,000 in 2010; Claremont’s population was only 13,355 in that year’s census, and Lebanon’s population was only 13,151.

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Aerotropolis

Delhi-The Mughal Metropolis

Both the creation and the recognition of environmental problems depend closely on the way society is organized and on its values and objectives. Changes in the relationship between man and his physical environment depend to a large degree on changes in the organization and aims of society.

Man-environment relationships refer to the interactions and feedback between the human
and the natural components and, consequently, to the linkages between the social and the
geophysical systems. The field of man-environment relationships operates with a series of
concepts and notions. They refer to the causes of environmental change, feedback and
consequences for the communities, answers of the decision-makers, etc.

Analysis of recent trends shows significant regional disparities in losses, particularly between developed and developing regions. Financial losses associated with natural hazards are highest among the developed countries, such as the USA, where natural hazard losses exceed those of many other national social problems, including fire and crime.

In the developing world, in contrast, the costs are largely measured in terms of human suffering and hardship. Many low-income populations are forced to occupy illegal settlements on low-lying lands, steep hillsides, floodplains or other hazard-prone areas.

They are very vulnerable to significant health risks from flooding, landslides, mud slides and other natural hazards, and their dwellings and infrastructure are subject to accidents, massive damage and collapse.

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Environmentalism

By Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt, Klimanachrichten (Translated, edited by P. Gosselin) The unusually mild weather at the turn of the year in Central Europe has strengthened the belief of many in Germany that CO2-induced global warming is in full swing. Globally – and this is the only thing that matters – temperatures are developing in a […]

German Renewable Energies Expert: Global Warming Is Going To Pause As North Atlantic Cools — Iowa Climate Science Education