Health in Megacities and Urban Areas

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Krämer, Alexander (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Khan, Mobarak Hossain (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Kraas, Frauke (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Heidelberg : Physica-Verlag HD : Imprint: Physica, 2011.
• Σειρά: Contributions to Statistics,
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Geography.; Statistics.; Environmental health.; Emigration and immigration.; Medicine & Public Health.; Medicine/Public Health, general.; Migration.; Geography, general.; Environmental Health.; Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences.

Diverse driving forces, processes and actors are responsible for different trends in the development of megacities and large urban areas. Under the dynamics of global change, megacities are themselves changing: On the one hand they are prone to increasing socio-economic vulnerability due to pronounc...