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Jan 6, 2023 · Some researchers argue that urbanization is harmful to public health through many channels. First, rapid urbanization will lead to a series of environmental pollution problems ( ), including water pollution ( ), dust pollution ( ), and carbon dioxide emission () in urban residents' daily life.
Jan 2, 2020 · Urbanization has a major negative impact on the nutritional health of poor populations. Because they have limited financial resources and the cost of food is higher in cities, the urban poor lack nutritious diets and this leads to illness, which contributes to loss of appetite and poor absorption of nutrients among those affected.
- Abdul Kuddus, Abdul Kuddus, Abdul Kuddus, Elizabeth Tynan, Emma McBryde, Emma McBryde
- 2020
- The Four Big Risks of Urbanization
- Infrastructure
- Health
- Climate Change
- Social Instability
- Risks and Opportunities
But it is important to acknowledge that rapid and often unplanned urbanization can also bring profound risks, especially in developing countries. These urbanization risks include increased social instability, threats to critical infrastructure, potential shortages of water and other vital resources, and the potential for the devastating spread of d...
The quality of a city’s infrastructure is central to its residents’ quality of life, economic opportunities and feeling of social inclusion. Airports, road networks and rail systems; schools and hospitals; water utilities, power and telecommunications grids. Infrastructure is the lifeblood for all cities. It also helps determine a city’s resilience...
Over the course of the last century, the health of people living in cities benefited from better access to education and healthcare, improved living conditions and targeted public-health interventions. However, when urbanization is rapid and unplanned, a combination of high population density, aging populations, poverty and lack of infrastructure c...
Rapid and poorly planned expansion of cities can also leave urban populations exposed to the effects of climate change. It is true that migration from rural areas to cities is at least partially motivated by the increasing prevalence of extreme weatherand other environmental crises connected to climate change, such as flooding, wildfires, droughts ...
The capacity of cities to generate wealth already largely determines global growth: although just over half the world’s population lives in cities, they generate more than 80 percentof global GDP. Ultimately, new migrants in cities are expected to earn more than they would in the countryside. This in turn has the potential to increase personal weal...
Ultimately, urbanization creates opportunities – which is why people are motivated to move to cities and towns in the first place. But it also creates new risks and stokes existing ones as the speed at which urbanization is happening challenges cities’ capacity to plan and adapt. This is particularly true in developing economies. For rapid urbaniza...
Jan 28, 2019 · Rapid and unplanned urbanization, in combination with the impacts of climate change, increases the vulnerability of the urban poor to natural hazards. Currently 3.9 billion people, or just over half of the world’s population, reside in urban areas.
- David Samuel Williams, María Máñez Costa, Catherine Sutherland, Louis Celliers, Jürgen Scheffran
- 2019
Without appropriate planning, design, and investment in the development of sustainable cities, a growing number of people will continue to face unprecedented negative impacts, not only of...
Dec 19, 2022 · The positive effect of urbanization in increasing the average number of visits is reinforced by an increase in income level and environmental pollution, whereas the negative effect of urbanization in reducing population mortality is weakened by environmental pollution.
