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Urbanisation and health in China [PDF]

open access: yesThe Lancet, 2012
China has seen the largest human migration in history, and the country's rapid urbanisation has important consequences for public health. A provincial analysis of its urbanisation trends shows shifting and accelerating rural-to-urban migration across the country and accompanying rapid increases in city size and population. The growing disease burden in
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Trends in and Perceptions on Urbanisation [PDF]

open access: yesQUAGEO, 2011
Trends in and Perceptions on Urbanisation Escalating mega-city concentrations, perpetuated by investment distortions and rural-urban imbalances in densely populated and economically undeveloped countries, endorse migration, generate pluralities, and create potential conditions for conflict, evoking planners' concern.
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Urbanisation, asthma and allergies [PDF]

open access: yesThorax, 2011
Differences in asthma in urban and rural environments were first reported from Germany in 1965,1 followed by many reports of higher rates of asthma symptoms in urban than rural environments around the world including Africa,2 Asia3–5 and Papua New Guinea.6 Authors have suggested that wealth, lifestyle, housing and urban environmental exposures may ...
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The urbanisation of our species [PDF]

open access: yesCurrent Biology, 2016
Ever since humans started to develop agriculture, trade and task differentiation, agglomerations have evolved according to scaling rules that may well be universal. After passing the milestone of 50% urbanisation, humanity is rapidly becoming a predominantly city-dwelling species.
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Urbanisation and counter-urbanisation in Greece in a context of crisis

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Urbanisation et contre-urbanisation en Grèce dans un contexte de crise La présente thèse doctorale examine l’hypothèse selon laquelle, parallèlement à la forme extrême que revêt la crise capitaliste mondiale en Grèce, et en définitive du fait de celle-ci, se développe une crise de l’urbanisation dans le pays.
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