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Sep 3, 2019 · Urban populations have increased rapidly in the last 70 years, but this rapid urbanization isn't without consequences. Over a third of the projected urban growth between now and 2050 will occur in just three countries: India, China, and Nigeria.
Mar 25, 2022 · Rapid urban expansion has profound impacts on global biodiversity through habitat conversion, degradation, fragmentation, and species extinction. However, how future urban expansion will...
This article examines four key areas of urbanization risk and how they can be affected by rapid urbanization in developing countries: infrastructure, health, climate change and social instability. Within each area we also highlight new or increased risks that are possible to manage or, in some cases, transfer through the mechanism of insurance.
Jan 6, 2023 · Rapid urbanization has given rise to “urban disease”, causing many social and environmental problems, such as, the disorderly development of urban space, excessive population aggregation, overemphasis on economic development, ignoring environmental protection, severe traffic congestion, shortage of energy resources, deterioration of the ecologic...
- 10.3389/fpubh.2022.1096964
- 2022
- Front Public Health. 2022; 10: 1096964.
Aug 28, 2019 · Rapid urbanization continues in both developed and developing countries. According to the United Nations, the urban population of the world is projected to grow to 4.9 billion by 2030—an increase of 1.6 billion—while the rural population is likely to shrink by 28 million (UN-Habitat 2007 ).
- Keshav Bhattarai, Darlene Budd
- 2019
Oct 25, 2023 · In the meantime, recent events have revealed some of the drawbacks and downsides of rapid urbanization. COVID-19 showed the devastating effects of disease spreading among dense concentrations of people, particularly in crowded and unplanned settlements lacking basic services and open space.
Aug 20, 2021 · The process of urbanization results in the rapid change of large amount of agricultural lands, rural fringes and wetlands to other urban land uses; thus, leading to encroachment on the natural environment as well as its concomitant development control problems (Gantsho 2008; Naab et al. 2013; Mensah 2014; Korah et al. 2018; Nonterah et al. 2015;...
