Urbanization and Disaster Risk Panel Contribution to the Population-environment Research Network Cyberseminar on Population and Natural Hazards the Urban Transition from Security to Risk
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چکیده
More than half of the world’s population and the majority of its capital assets are found in urban settlements. Maintaining these centres relies upon chains of consumption that pull in water, food and energy, and export waste. Urban influence is felt far beyond administrative boundaries through migration and the impact of urban demands on rural markets and livelihoods – opening opportunities but also challenging established cultures and values including those that shape people’s relationships with nature and the environment. In consequence, there are few places and economic systems that are not touched by urbanisation, so that the world today can be thought of as a web of interactions drawing the rural and urban, small and large cities closer together.
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