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Health in Megacities and Urban Areas (Hardcover, 2011 ed.)
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Health in Megacities and Urban Areas (Hardcover, 2011 ed.)
Series: Contributions to Statistics
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Diverse driving forces, processes and actors are responsible for
different trends in the development of megacities and large urban
areas. Under the dynamics of global change, megacities are
themselves changing: On the one hand they are prone to increasing
socio-economic vulnerability due to pronounced poverty,
socio-spatial and political fragmentation, sometimes with extreme
forms of segregation, disparities and conflicts. On the other hand
megacities offer positive potential for global transformation, e.g.
minimisation of space consumption, highly effective use of
resources, efficient disaster prevention and health care options --
if good strategies were developed. At present in many megacities
and urban areas of the developing world and the emerging economies
the quality of life is eroding. Most of the megacities have grown
to unprecedented size, and the pace of urbanisation has far
exceeded the growth of the necessary infrastructure and services.
As a result, an increasing number of urban dwellers are left
without access to basic amenities like clean drinking water, fresh
air and safe food. Additionally, social inequalities lead to
subsequent and significant intra-urban health inequalities and
unbalanced disease burdens that can trigger conflict and violence
between subpopulations. The guiding idea of our book lies in a
multi- and interdisciplinary approach to the complex topic of
megacities and urban health that can only be adequately understood
when different disciplines share their knowledge and methodological
tools to work together. We hope that the book will allow readers to
deepen their understanding of the complex dynamics of urban and
megacity populations through the lens of public health,
geographical and other research perspectives.
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