Urban environmental challenges in developing countries—A stakeholder perspective

Ameen, Raed Fawzi Mohammed; Mourshed, Monjur

doi:10.1016/j.habitatint.2017.04.002

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“…Urban sprawl as an intricate phenomenon has socioeconomic and environmental effects, both negative and positive [50]. Hence it has undesirable influences on public health [51], quality of life [52], rising urban pollution [53], car dependency [54], environmental degradation [8,55,56], and can disturb public amenities and social segregation [57,58]. On the other hand, urban sprawl may have advantages on the sense of economic expansion [59], more living space [44], decreasing crime rates [55], and community extension between inhabitants [60].…”

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“…Thus, with rising overall population and urbanization, the pattern of land use and landscape have been altered and such has led to series urbanization-oriented environmental challenges [6]. Therefore, the urban sprawl consequences have become an increasingly essential concern as a result of continuous trend of world urbanization [7][8][9]. Land use and land cover is changing rapidly due to several driving forces [10].…”

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Urbanization and Urban Sprawl Issues in City Structure: A Case of the Sulaymaniah Iraqi Kurdistan Region

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This novel study explores the driving forces and dynamics of rapid urbanization, highlighting the main causes and effects of urban explosion, environmental disruption, and city pattern transformation. This study was carried out that how urbanization and urban sprawl have influenced the structure of the city of Sulaymaniah in Kurdistan region of Iraq. This is because over the years many urban areas have experienced dramatic growth and population explosion that has resulted in the exhaustion of social amenities in the concerned communities. For this purpose, a qualitative method is used based on in-depth face-to-face interviews with local authority, including planners, architects, and experts of master planning, as well as professors in the academic institutions. This study also utilizes extensive document analysis to present the evolution of urban growth. The findings reveal that the autonomy, political conflict, non-implementation of master plans, and economic prosperity are the driving forces which are accelerating this urbanization process. It is proposed that the practical policies and strategic urban development plans are urgent requirement to control the unplanned urban growth and stimulate the desired sustainable future urban development.

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Section: Urban Sprawl Effectsmentioning

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Urbanization and Urban Sprawl Issues in City Structure: A Case of the Sulaymaniah Iraqi Kurdistan Region

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“…This paper will use principal component analysis to determine the weighting of each behavioral risk factor, because principal component analysis can eliminate the correlation between risk factors. In addition, the weighting of the principal components reflects the amount of the original data in the total amount of information, and the weighting is objective and reasonable [50,51]. [48] Entropy weight method Shannon Entropy and statistical methods of calculating and ranking analysis were implemented for modelling the integrated risks of a power construction project.…”

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Critical Behavioral Risk Factors among Principal Participants in the Chinese Construction Industry

Pan

Jia

2018

Sustainability

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The main participants in construction projects are the client, contractors, material suppliers, and consultants such as the project supervisor. They play the most important roles in implementing construction projects, and their behavior has a significant impact on the project’s performance. Because each participant has their own particular interests, by virtue of proprietary information advantage, each individual participant is driven to achieve maximum benefit, which can result in improper behavior with respect to each other. The risk of this resulting in moral hazard and adverse selection based on information asymmetry is called behavioral risk among principal construction participants. Behavior is affected by various risk factors; successful implementation of construction projects depends on effective management of the key risk factors. This paper identifies and ranks the critical behavioral risk factors from the perspective of principal construction participants in the Chinese construction industry. The data used for analysis is based on an interview and questionnaire survey. Factor analysis is conducted with the assistance of SPSS17.0. Forty-one potential behavioral risk factors are identified, with 30 of those being critical, including “client changes project objective or investment direction”, “designer uses technological capability advantage to obtain profit”, and others. These findings contribute to the understanding of risk management in the construction industry in China. They also serve as a useful reference for further studies on the subject.

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“…Scholars have documented the various effects of land transition from various other uses to the urban one, as a result of urbanization (Wang et al, 2018) with a special focus on: economic, environmental, and social consequences (Benedek et al, 2018;Chen et al, 2016;Kantakumar et al, 2016;Parece and Campbell, 2013;Pickett et al, 2011); hydrologic effects of urban expansion leading to increased runoff as a consequence of natural lands conversion (Grimm et al, 2000;Li et al, 2013); environmental effects of land use management on air quality, water and soil systems (DeFries et al, 2010;Rojaset al, 2013); land-use change effect on food security (Jiang et al, 2012;Song et al, 2015); impact of urban expansion on life quality (Frenkel and Ashkenazi, 2008). The positive consequences of urbanization are primarily financial, commercial and educational leading to economic growth in a certain region (Ameen and Mourshed, 2017;Seto et al, 2011;Ionescu-Heroiu et al, 2013a;Cristea et al, 2017;Ionescu-Heroiu et al, 2013b).…”

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What Does Unsustainable Urban Sprawl Bring? Spatial Patterns Analysis of Built Environment in Cluj Metropolitan Area

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J o u r n a l h o m e p a g e: http://jssp.reviste.ubbcluj.ro Urban sprawl and population growth are the main triggers of land use reconversion around big cities. Due to the expansion of metropolitan areas, many land use categories (grasslands, arable lands, forests, pastures) have been transformed in living spaces. Determining the built-up area growth rate from satellite images, in correlation with demographics and dwellings data, leads to a better comprehension of sustainable urban development and the negative effects of chaotic urbanization. This study analyses the built-up area expansion growth rate in Cluj Metropolitan Area in 1991-2017 using the normalized difference built-up index and soil-adjusted vegetation index applied on Landsat imagery. Results highlight different spatial patterns within the studied area, based on the correlation between the growth rates of built-up area expansion and demographic data. The land use types most impacted by the urban sprawl are meadows and arable lands near the metropolitan centre and grassland in areas located at the periphery of the metropolitan area.

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Urban environmental challenges in developing countries—A stakeholder perspective

Cited by 74 publications

References 31 publications

Urbanization and Urban Sprawl Issues in City Structure: A Case of the Sulaymaniah Iraqi Kurdistan Region

Urbanization and Urban Sprawl Issues in City Structure: A Case of the Sulaymaniah Iraqi Kurdistan Region

Critical Behavioral Risk Factors among Principal Participants in the Chinese Construction Industry

What Does Unsustainable Urban Sprawl Bring? Spatial Patterns Analysis of Built Environment in Cluj Metropolitan Area

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