%0 Book
%A Thomas Schneider
%D 2015
%C Hamburg, Germany
%I Anchor Academic Publishing
%@ 9783954894949
%T The urbanization process in China and its impacts on the environment
%U https://m.anchor-publishing.com/document/310934
%X 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.
%K Urban population, Rural-urban migration, Hukou system, Air pollution, Water pollution, Land consumption, Energy, East asian studies
%G English