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Unprecedented Urbanisation in Asia and Its Impacts on the Environment
Author(s) -
Wan Guanghu,
Wang Chen
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
australian economic review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1467-8462
pISSN - 0004-9018
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8462.12076
Subject(s) - urbanization , pace , perspective (graphical) , environmental degradation , population , development economics , geography , economic geography , environmental planning , economic growth , economics , sociology , demography , computer science , ecology , geodesy , artificial intelligence , biology
Asia is home to almost half of the global urban population and is urbanising at a pace faster than any other region, leading to greater environmental challenges that are already serious. This article offers a balanced assessment on the relationship between urbanisation and the environment from the Asian perspective. It concludes that urbanisation is a cause of, but more importantly, a solution to environmental degradation. Policy‐makers should take an optimistic and proactive, rather than conservative, approach to unprecedented urbanisation in Asia .