"This paper attempts to describe the nature of Zambia's demographic situation, which eventually led to the formulation of a national population policy; the policy instrument; and some of the measures necessary for the effective implementation of the policy....[The] situation is characterised by three dominant features: a high rate of natural increase, massive urbanisation, and wide variations ...

Rapid urbanisation, characterised by population increase and spatial development, is pushing the frontiers of major African cities from old urban cores outward into peri-urban areas. A key outcome transitioning land uses variations to customary rights. Yet, understandings everyday transformational processes driving forces in peri-urbanisation remain underexplored. This article, using a case stu...

China’s new-type urbanisation, as a national strategy, is one of the reasons why leap in development has been made last decade. Existing studies mainly focus on status and outcomes china’s urbanisation while stressing not enough overlooked aspects policies that are currently use. This paper aims at exploring highlighted three key elements urbanisation: population, land, industry their implement...

This study investigated the relationship between the hydrological response of a river basin to anticipated urbanisation and its subbasin characteristics by applying a hydrological model (HSPF) with land use scenarios generated by an urban growth model (LEAM). The hydrological model was set up and run for the Kishwaukee River basin in northeastern Illinois, USA. The results show that the subbasi...

1. The effects of catchment urbanisation on water quality were examined for 30 streams (stratified into 15, 50 and 100 km ± 25% catchments) in the Etowah River basin, Georgia, U.S.A. We examined relationships between land cover (implying cover and use) in these catchments (e.g. urban, forest and agriculture) and macroinvertebrate assemblage attributes using several previously published indices ...