The University of Luxembourg is a multilingual, international research university. The Doctoral Candidate will be a member of the Department of Geography and Spatial Planning and do his/her research within the framework of the AltFin project, funded by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR). In cooperation with the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) where […]
Over three-quarters of the world’s population now live in urban areas
With data spanning four decades and nearly 240 countries and territories, the JRC’s new Atlas of the Human Planet shows how humans have settled on Earth and urbanised the planet. From 1975-2015, the share of people living in urban areas has increased from 69% to 76%. Across the globe, the number of countries and territories with […]