The urbanization process in China and its impacts on the environment
Term Paper 2015 16 Pages
Summary
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.
Details
- Pages
- 16
- Type of Edition
- Originalausgabe
- Year
- 2015
- ISBN (eBook)
- 9783954894949
- File size
- 976 KB
- Language
- English
- Catalog Number
- v310934
- Institution / College
- University of Duisburg-Essen – Institut für Ostasienwissenschaften
- Grade
- 1.0
- Tags
- Urban population Rural-urban migration Hukou system Air pollution Water pollution Land consumption Energy East asian studies