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ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY VERSUS ECONOMIC GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF EFFECTS OF URBANIZATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES IN AFRICA.2017 •
The migration of people from rural to urban areas is not a new phenomenon and neither is it restricted to a particular region of the world. Globally urbanization trends continue to grow rapidly with the African continent; specifically developing countries having been singled out as the most rapidly urbanizing. There have been different perspectives on the effects of urbanization with a majority condemning it to result into a larger percentage of the world’s environmental problems. On the contrary it has been argued that urbanization is a vital factor that triggers industrialization, economic growth and development. This paper uses “Globalization and Development Theory” by D. Clarks and two concepts (i) Classical economist (Natural scientist) and (ii) dependency theorist thoughts as outlined in one of the most popular paper that supports the contrary opinion to Clarks thought that urbanization is a necessary factor for economic growth and development entitled “Four theories of population change and environment” by L.C Jolly. The discussion focuses on whether it arguably right to consider urbanization in developing countries as a vital or prerequisite factor for economic growth and development or a problem that needs urgent attention as it is culminating into numerous environmental unsustainability issues. Articles for and against urbanization are used to discuss the contrary opinions and finally an opinion from the authors point of view is presented in the conclusion. Indeed, well managed and planned urbanization has the efficiency to trigger innovation to create employment as exchanging ideas breeds’ new ideas and size of the population offers opportunities of new markets.
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Urbanization causes urban expansion, dramatically transforming periurban environments and societies. In this process, peripheral lands are consumed by an expanding city, exploiting the large rent gap between agricultural and urban land. On the basis of the aforementioned reason, understanding peri-urban settlement growth is key to helping city managers develop strategies to curb undesirable development trends around the city‟s periphery, especially in the area of environmental quality. To these ends, this study explored the factors responsible for the rapid urbanisation and spread of the main city into these peri-urban settlements and the challenges that accompany them. It also examines the extent of land use change between 2004 and 2016 with the view to suggesting sustainable land management practices that can be employed to improve the environmental conditions of these peri-urban settlements. The research design used was the Concurrent Triangulation Multisite Mixed Methods Design....
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