Five Cities: Modelling Asian Urban Population-environment DynamicsGayl D. Ness, Michael M. Low Oxford University Press, 2000 - 311 pages This book documents important new research on the dynamic interactions between population and the urban environment. The focus is on five cities in Asia: Faisalbad in Pakistan, Khon Kaen in Thailand, Cebu in the Philippines, Pusan in South Korea, and Kobe in Japan. It provides both important case studies and powerful analytic models. Urban planners, international development organizations, and students of urban studies will all find this book an invaluable resource. |
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Urban PopulationEnvironment Dynamics | 19 |
Environment Dynamics | 43 |
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Actual Projected agricultural air pollution air quality areas Asia Asian urban AUICK Bangkok barangays birth and death birth rate cars Cebu City Cebu Island central government centre century city's death rates decades demographic transition diseases economic emissions energy enrolment environment environmental estimates expected Faisalabad family planning Figure five cities future households housing impact in-migration increase industrial Japan Kaen's Khon Kaen Kobe Kobe's Korea land levels major measures ment metres migration million monitoring mortality rates Nakdong River nitrogen oxides number of vehicles out-migration Pakistan past percent Philippines population growth port primary problems produce programmes Pusan rapid rapidly region rise river road Rokko Mountains rural sector shows social South Korea square kilometres studies Table Thailand tion traffic transportation UNFPA urban administrators urban planning urban population-environment dynamics variant wastes water quality