Urbanization de Luca N Wagner

Urbanization: 21st Century Issues & Challenges

Luca N Wagner

Urbanization refers to a process in which an increasing proportion of an entire population lives in cities and the suburbs of cities. Historically, it has been closely connected with industrialization. When more and more inanimate sources of energy were used to enhance human productivity (industrialization), surpluses increased in both agriculture and industry. Larger and larger proportions of a population could live in cities. Economic forces were such that cities became the ideal places to locate factories and their workers. This new book presents recent and significant research from around the globe.

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Preface; An Analysis and System Construction on the Land Use of City Wetland Park; The Entry of Urban Landscape Ecology both in Cognitive Ecology and Regional Planning; Urbanization: 21st Century Issues and Challenges; Coping Disability of Africans During Urbanization a Risk Marker in the Development of Lifestyler Diseases?; Urbanization and the Increasing Risk from Mosquito-borne Diseases: Linking Human Well-Being with Ecosystem Health; Mesoscale Modeling of Air Circulation and Pollutant Dispersion Forced by Airflow and Urban Heat Island in Cities; Urbanization, Economic Development and Income Inequality: A Demographic Perspective; Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Urbanization in the Health District of Ferrara, Italy, in 1964-1998; 21st Century Issues and Challenges in Chinese Urbanization; China's Urbanization: New Trends and Challenges of Conceptualization; Coastal Sustainability Study and Environmental Management; Biodiversity and Ecology of Hydrobionts in the Natural and Anthropogenic Landscapes; Urban Water and Energy Wastes Affect Aquatic Environment- Case Study for Streams in Tokyo; Sustainable Rates of Groundwater Extraction in an Urbanized Plain, Central Japan; Detecting Large and Fine Scale Patterns of Disturbance in Towns by Means of Plant Species Inventories: Maps of Hemeroby in the Town of Rome; Application of Computational Fluid Dynamics on the Prediction of Urban Thermal Environment and Urban Safety; Measuring Urbanization in Low Income Countries for Public Health Interventions; Urbanization and Ground-Dwelling Invertebrates; Index.