TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thomas Schneider
PY  - 2015
CY  - Hamburg, Germany
PB  - Anchor Academic Publishing
SN  - 9783954894949
TI  - The urbanization process in China and its impacts on the environment
UR  - https://m.anchor-publishing.com/document/310934
N2  - 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.
KW  - Urban population, Rural-urban migration, Hukou system, Air pollution, Water pollution, Land consumption, Energy, East asian studies
LA  - English
ER  -