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2014 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
11. Population Environment Interface in Urban India: A Geographical Analysis
verfasst von : Anuradha Banerjee, Joydeep Saha
Erschienen in: Landscape Ecology and Water Management
Verlag: Springer Japan
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Abstract
The twenty-first century has witnessed rapid urbanization in Asia, particularly for the large population giants like China and India. Such unprecedented urbanization in India has thrown up several issues and challenges in terms of physical and socio-economic environment, infrastructure as well as city management in the next couple of years.
The ‘top heavy’ nature of urbanization in independent India reflects a maximum concentration of population in largest cities portraying an uneven distribution of population across the various size classes. Also, highly urbanized states often reflect higher urban growth rates as well as higher levels of urbanization. Such imbalances in urbanization have implications on the broader issue of sustainability in terms of infrastructural development, environmental balance and societal progress. This study attempts to portray the interaction of huge population burden with existing physical, social and infrastructural environment in top ten most urbanized states like Goa, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka, Punjab, Haryana and West Bengal, Kerala and Mizoram.