Health in Megacities and Urban Areas

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Krämer, Alexander (Editor), Khan, Mobarak Hossain (Editor), Kraas, Frauke (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Heidelberg : Physica-Verlag HD : Imprint: Physica, 2011.
• Series: Contributions to Statistics,
• Subjects: 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...