Urbanization in developing countries: Current trends, future projections, and key challenges for sustainability

By B. Cohen. 2006

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The world food situation: New driving forces and required actions [In Chinese] (2007, background): “The world’s urban population has grown more than the rural population; within the next three decades, 61 percent of the world’s populace is expected to live in urban areas (Cohen 2006).”
Evolution and assessment on China's urbanization 1960–2010: Under-urbanization or over-urbanization? (2013, neutral): “A great deal of literature has been generated dealing with the special characteristics of “over-urbanization” or “excessive-urbanization, common phenomena and processes of formation, and the new challenges posed by developing countries (Cohen, 2006; Henderson, 2002; Skeldon, 1999).”
The Dynamics of Climate Change Adaptation in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of Climate-Smart Agriculture among Small-Scale Farmers (2019, background): “These are the expansion of the production area and intensification on existing croplands [23,24].”
Climate change adaptation and water resource management: A review of the literature (2014, background): “However, the world is increasingly urban; about one-half of the global population resides in cities, and virtually all expected population growth in the next three decades is expected to occur in developing country cities (Cohen, 2006).”
The Rapid Urban Growth Triad: A New Conceptual Framework for Examining the Urban Transition in Developing Countries (2017, background): “growth of small towns, it creates a situation where many of these rural areas eventually cross population thresholds, and are immediately reclassified as urban areas [76].”
Urban heat island impacts on plant phenology: intra-urban variability and response to land cover (2016, background): “Though 60% of global population is expected to live in urban areas by the year 2030, the ecological impacts of the UHI remain poorly understood (Cohen 2006, Jochner and Menzel 2015).”
Ecological and socio-economic factors affecting extinction risk in parrots (2016, background): “Urbanization can entail far-reaching transformations in itself but is also linked to broad scale environmental degradation (Cohen 2006; McKinney 2002).”
Impacts of land use/land cover change and socioeconomic development on regional ecosystem services: The case of fast-growing Hangzhou metropolitan area, China (2013, background): “Seventy percent of the world’s largest cities can now be found in the developing world (Cohen, 2006).”