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Urban Development Challenges, Risks and Resilience in Asian Mega Cities (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
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Urban Development Challenges, Risks and Resilience in Asian Mega Cities (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
Series: Advances in Geographical and Environmental Sciences
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In this book, an interdisciplinary research group of faculty
members, researchers, professionals, and planners contributed to an
understanding of the dynamics and dimensions of emerging challenges
and risks in megacities in the rapidly changing urban environments
in Asia and examined emerging resilience themes from the point of
view of sustainability and public policy. The world's urban
population in 2009 was approximately 3.4 billion and Asia's urban
population was about 1.72 billion. Between 2010 and 2020, 411
million people will be added to Asian cities (60 % of the growth in
the world's urban population). By 2020, of the world's urban
population of 4.2 billion, approximately 2.2 billion will be in
Asia. China and India will contribute 31.3 % of the total world
urban population by 2025. Developing Asia's projected global share
of CO2 emissions for energy consumption will increase from 30 % in
2006 to 43 % by 2030. City regions serve as magnets for people,
enterprise, and culture, but with urbanisation , the worst form of
visible poverty becomes prominent. The Asian region, with a slum
population of an estimated 505.5 million people, remains host to
over half of the world's slum population . The book provides
information on a comprehensive range of environmental threats faced
by the inhabitants of megacities. It also offers a wide and
multidisciplinary group of case studies from rapidly growing
megacities (with populations of more than 5 million) from developed
and developing countries of Asia.
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