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Unprecedented Urbanisation in Asia and Its Impacts on the Environment

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  • Guanghu Wan
  • Chen Wang

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type="main" xml:lang="en"> Asia is home to almost half of the global urban population and is urbanising at a pace faster than any other region, leading to greater environmental challenges that are already serious. This article offers a balanced assessment on the relationship between urbanisation and the environment from the Asian perspective. It concludes that urbanisation is a cause of, but more importantly, a solution to environmental degradation. Policy-makers should take an optimistic and proactive, rather than conservative, approach to unprecedented urbanisation in Asia.

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  • Guanghu Wan & Chen Wang, 2014. "Unprecedented Urbanisation in Asia and Its Impacts on the Environment," Australian Economic Review, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, vol. 47(3), pages 378-385, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ausecr:v:47:y:2014:i:3:p:378-385
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