نتایج جستجو برای: urban migration

تعداد نتایج: 308987  

Journal: :Regional Science and Urban Economics 2013

2010
Shah Ebrahim Sanjay Kinra Liza Bowen Elizabeth Andersen Yoav Ben-Shlomo Tanica Lyngdoh Lakshmy Ramakrishnan R. C. Ahuja Prashant Joshi S. Mohan Das Murali Mohan George Davey Smith Dorairaj Prabhakaran K. Srinath Reddy

BACKGROUND Migration from rural areas of India contributes to urbanisation and may increase the risk of obesity and diabetes. We tested the hypotheses that rural-to-urban migrants have a higher prevalence of obesity and diabetes than rural nonmigrants, that migrants would have an intermediate prevalence of obesity and diabetes compared with life-long urban and rural dwellers, and that longer ti...

Journal: :Addiction (Abingdon, England) 2008
Tawanchai Jirapramukpitak Martin Prince Trudy Harpham

AIMS Limited data are available about whether rural-urban migration, often characterized by exposure to urban life stress and a reduction in social network and support, can affect the prevalence of illicit drug use and hazardous/harmful drinking. The purpose of our study was to examine the prevalence of these risky behaviours among Thai young adults and to describe their association between the...

2007
Ellen Banzhaf Annegret Kindler Dagmar Haase

Urban remote sensing research and approaches to modelling residential mobility focus predominantly on growth patterns. In this paper, the phenomenon of extreme urban decline, named ‘shrinkage’, is scrutinised. The different characteristics of urban decline are illuminated using a multi-scale approach. Selected patterns of the spatial growth and shrinkage are first calculated by means of satelli...

2006
Gordon McGranahan

In China, as in many other countries undergoing rapid economic growth, increasing socio-economic inequalities and environmental damage are the main threats to sustainable urbanization. Drawing on international experiences, this paper describes the key issues in urban change in China and identifies the types of policy approaches that could support more sustainable urbanization. Urbanization and ...

2007
Alisson F. Barbieri David L. Carr Richard E. Bilsborrow

Since the 1970s, in-migration has driven a growing human presence and dramatic changes in the physical landscape of the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon frontier, including massive deforestation. Over time, a second phenomenon has emerged with the children of the original migrants often leaving the settler farms of their parents to set out on their own. The vast majority stay in the Amazon region, so...

Journal: :Japanese Journal of Human Geography 1979

Journal: :Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities 2017

Journal: :پژوهش های روستایی 0
محمدعلی فیض پور عضو هیئت علمی دانشکده اقتصاد و مدیریت، دانشگاه یزد گلسا صالحی فیروزآبادی دانشجوی کارشناسی ارشد علوم اقتصادی، دانشگاه تهران مرکز

introduction although based on the development literature, achieving sustainable development is one of the most important aims of many developed as well as developing countries, institutional experts argue that development of various institutions could be the base point in these countries. labor market, one of the most important institutions, with a comprehensive look at this market and the geo...

2014
Chukwuedozie Kelechukwu Ajaero Ignatius Ani Madu

Rural-urban migration remains a livelihood strategy employed by the rural populace in the densely populated southeastern region of Nigeria. This study appraises the impact of rural-urban migration on rural livelihoods in southeastern region of Nigeria. Questionnaire surveys on 225 heads of rural households and focus group discussions in each of the five states in the study area were used to eli...

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