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Urbanization is a process that has been taking place for centuries, but it has become more pronounced in recent times due to various factors, including population growth, rural-urban migration, and economic development. While urbanization has its benefits, it also poses significant challenges and im...
Decomposition analyses further reveal that migration increases inequality between ethnic groups despite reducing spatial inequality. These countervailing effects imply that the continual transfer of rural–urban migrants will likely lead to spatial convergence despite reinforcing ethnic inequalities in rural ...
The availability of resources other than the family for the care of older persons therefore becomes a key issue. Communities in more prosperous, modernising rural areas are often able to provide their elderly residents with welfare and social benefits previously found almost exclusively in urban ...
The New Cooperative Medical Scheme(NCMS)has been launched in some regions of rural China since 2003.Until now it has reached full coverage of rural areas,and become the main form of medical insurance.Using 2000 and 2006 adult survey data from the Chinese Health and Nutrition Survey(CHNS)and ...
Vukomanovic, J.; Doumas, S.L.; Osterkamp, W.R.; Orr, B.J. Housing density and ecosystem function: Comparing the impacts of rural, exurban, and suburban densities on fire hazard, water availability, and house and road distance effects. Land 2013, 2, 656-677....
Interestingly, the U.S. also experienced considerable internal 20th century movement due to labor migration. For example, it's estimated that millions of African Americans left the poorer areas of the rural Southern U.S. in search of the higher paying, urban jobs of the Northeast. Urbanization...
China has witnessed a surge of rural-urban migrants over the past three decades. Although a plethora of literature has shed light on the low quality of migrants' lives, little research has been done to understand how migrants evaluate their own lives in host cities, and no study has been un...
The lasting urbanization in China has moved to the 'new-normal' stage, in which rural-to-urban migration, inefficiency in land use, and insufficient public services are the key challenges. To prevent urban sprawl, the compact city design intensively focuses on the improvement of housing and ...