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  title info:
    title: Health in Megacities and Urban Areas
  name:
    name part: Krämer, Alexander.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Khan, Mobarak Hossain.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Kraas, Frauke.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 319 p. online resource.
  abstract: 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 pronounced poverty, socio-spatial and political fragmentation, sometimes with extreme forms of segregation, disparities and conflicts. On the other hand megacities offer positive potential for global transformation, e.g. minimisation of space consumption, highly effective use of resources, efficient disaster prevention and health care options – if good strategies were developed. At present in many megacities and urban areas of the developing world and the emerging economies the quality of life is eroding. Most of the megacities have grown to unprecedented size, and the pace of urbanisation has far exceeded the growth of the necessary infrastructure and services. As a result, an increasing number of urban dwellers are left without access to basic amenities like clean drinking water, fresh air and safe food. Additionally, social inequalities lead to subsequent and significant intra-urban health inequalities and unbalanced disease burdens that can trigger conflict and violence between subpopulations. The guiding idea of our book lies in a multi- and interdisciplinary approach to the complex topic of megacities and urban health that can only be adequately understood when different disciplines share their knowledge and methodological tools to work together. We hope that the book will allow readers to deepen their understanding of the complex dynamics of urban and megacity populations through the lens of public health, geographical and other research perspectives.
  note: edited by Alexander Krämer, Mobarak Hossain Khan, Frauke Kraas.
  subject:
    topic: Medicine
  subject:
    topic: Geography
  subject:
    topic: Statistics
  subject:
    topic: Environmental health
  subject:
    topic: Emigration and immigration
  subject:
    topic: Medicine & Public Health
  subject:
    topic: Medicine/Public Health, general
  subject:
    topic: Migration
  subject:
    topic: Geography, general
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Health
  subject:
    topic: Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences
  classification: R1
  classification: 610
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Contributions to Statistics
  identifier: 9783790827330
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2733-0
  record info:
    record creation date: 110705
    record change date: 20151204144559.0
    record identifier: 978-3-7908-2733-0