The urbanization process in China and its impacts on the environment

The urbanization process in China and its impacts on the environment
ISBN-10
3954894947
ISBN-13
9783954894949
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
16
Language
English
Published
2015-11-23
Publisher
Anchor Academic Publishing
Author
Thomas Schneider

Description

This paper reviews the urbanization process in China during the past decades and gives a prospect for the near future. It is shown, that in a remarkably short period, China increased its urban population to more than 50 percent of the entire population. This rapid urbanization was mainly driven by rural-urban migration in the course of the industrialization process and by the in situ urbanization, as a mainly government related factor. The paper afterwards identifies energy and resources, pollution and land consumption as the major areas where by urbanization caused challenges need to be tackled.

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