Impacts and Implications of Urbanisation in India: SocialPerspectivesG. Venkata Ramana
Consequently, a vast body of scholarship focusses on contextualising and resolving the ills of global South urbanisation within contemporary understandings of development (Devlin 2018). A significant offshoot of this scholarship revolves around dealing with migration from settings of the global South to ...
Traditional residential location choice (RLC) models are based on the characteristics of location and demographics, revealing important patterns of RLC, but no RLC models have yet incorporated individual preferences. This study fills this gap by integrat
they don’t receive well-being promotion from urban residents. According to a Shanghai study, among RUMs in urban China, the quantity of local ties is not a significant predictor of good mental health (Jin et al.2012). Secondly, their promotion and well-being are unaffected by institutional...
Keywords: Social capital, Concept analysis, Urbanisation, Urban vulnerability, Slums Introduction Urban areas can be rendered vulnerable due to multiple exacerbating factors such as rapid and unplanned devel- opment, environmental degradation, precarious liveli- hoods and resource pressures. These challenges...
urbanisation and pollution are contributing to a growing scarcity of land and water; it is predicted that by 2030, 47% of the world’s population will be living in areas under water stress if current trends aren’t being reversed (and that will not just affect to so-called developing world...
Economic development has driven population growth and the resulting competition for land has given rise to a process of suburbanisation that started at different times, but has occurred in all the cities and continues to the present. The increasing need to travel from lower density suburbs to ...
State formation, urbanisation and growing commercialisation further affected forest clearance and land-use (Kawahata et al., 2014; Sasaki and Takahara, 2011). Given this evidence for anthropogenic impacts in pre-industrial Japan, it may seem obdurate to raise arguments in favour of low-impact ...
Leveraging insights from LCZs-based research, climate-sensitive urban design should center around the integration of green and blue infrastructure, innovative building design, and flexible street design elements to counter the adverse impacts of climate change and foster the creation of sustainable, clima...
Amazon. These are meant to serve as a preliminary “library” of potential indicators to be used for future vulnerability assessments. Based on the reviewed studies, we identified disparities in the availability of indicators to populate some of the vulnerability domains of the proposed framework, ...