Ecological consequences of rapid urban expansion: Shanghai, China
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Ecological consequences of rapid urban expansion: Shanghai, China
and expansion since the late 1970s, accompanied by rapid and widespread urbanization. During the early 1980s, 18% of China’s population lived in cities, but this rose to 39% by 2003, while the number of cities increased from 190 to 660 (including about 170 cities with a population greater than 1 million) over the same time period. From 1980 to 2003, the contribution of Chinese cities to gross n...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1540-9295
DOI: 10.1890/1540-9295(2006)004[0341:ecorue]2.0.co;2