1. Peri-Urbanization 1.1. Drivers 1.2. Global Variants 1.3 What’s at Stake? 2. Peri-Urbanization in East Asia: Comparative Context 2.1. The Thai Model 2.2. The Philippine Model 3. Chinese Peri-Urbanization 3.1. Inter-Regional Variation 3.2. Dynamics of Chinese Peri-Urbanization 4. The Case of the Hangzhou–Ningbo Corridor 4.1. Key Characteristics 4.2. Emerging Outcomes 4.3. Peri-Urban Governance...

Urbanization and economic development are closely intertwined. While urbanization per se does not cause development, sustained economic development does not occur without urbanization. This paper starts with a “primer” on what we know about the conceptual and empirical links between development and urbanization. Empirical evidence is partly based on historical experience in developed countries ...

China's urbanization will influence the future world economic development. China's s urbanization rate is from 10.6% in1949 to 53.73% in 2013, and the research center of the experts predict that China's urbanization rate will reach 60% in 2020.The characteristic of China's urbanization is the coordinated development of four modernizations, which includes informatization, industrialization, urba...

In the context of Beijing’s accelerated economic growth, a high urbanization rate and associated urban problems pose challenges. We collected panel data for the period 2005–2014 to examine the relationship between Beijing’s urbanization efficiency and economic growth rate as well as its spatial patterns of dynamic and static urbanization efficiency. Specifically, we developed a comprehensive in...

Urbanization affects communities of herbivorous arthropods and provides opportunities for dramatic changes in their abundance and richness. Underlying these changes are creation of impervious surfaces; variation in the density, diversity, and complexity of vegetation; and maintenance practices including pulsed inputs of fertilizers, water, and pesticides. A rich body of knowledge provides theor...

The adoption of renewable energy remains Sub-Saharan Africa’s best option to achieve sustainable growth and mitigate climate change. essence this study is examine the factors that determine in Africa by employing System Generalized Methods-Of-Moment (GMM) analyze data sourced from 1990 2019 on some selected African economies. examined tripartite role economic, environmental, socio-political not...

China is in a decisive phase of building a moderately prosperous society, and the steady sequence of urbanization has great significance in promoting economic and social development. While in the process of urbanization, some problems are challenging the development quality of Chinese urbanization and the planning concepts of new urbanization, such as urban industrial pollution, agricultural hi...

Filling a gap left by previous literature, this paper finds that many macroeconomic “puzzles” exhibited by the Chinese economy can be explained (at least partially) by the evolution of China’s internal-migration policies. Such policies not only have a profound impact on China’s labor market conditions, but also explain many Chinaspecific phenomena such as its rising saving rate, persistent and ...

BACKGROUND It is generally believed that overweight is less prevalent than undernutrition in the developing world, particularly in rural areas, and that it is concentrated in higher socioeconomic status (SES) groups. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to examine patterns of adult female overweight and underweight in the developing world by using categories of urban or rural status and SE...

Urbanization replaces the extant natural resource base (e.g., forests, wetlands) with an infrastructure that is capable of supporting humans. One ecological consequence of urbanization is higher concentrations of nitrogen (N) and phosphorous (P) in streams, lakes, and estuaries. When received in excess, N and P are considered pollutants. Continuing urbanization will change the relative distribu...