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Urbanization And Urban Pollution

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Introduction Apart from many social and economic benefits of urban environments, there are also environmental problems that come along with it. The city is characterized by its ‘brightlights’ theory, which is a pull factor from the rural areas to the urban environments. Pollution has been related to the process of urbanization which is encouraged by economic growth and city expansion of industrial revolution. Urbanisation has been seen as a process of movement of people from rural areas to urban areas as industrial economies grow. The edge for a better life, economic development and civilization pushes for urbanization and industrialization to expand in order to satisfy the growing population. This creates urban growth and industrialization, as cities grow environmental problems increase. The relationship between economic grown and emissions has become complex. As it is said that cities comprised less than three (3) percent of the earth’s surface, but there is an extraordinary concentration of population, industry and energy use leading to a massive local pollution and environmental degradation (Ksenija, 2016). According to Holman (1999), levels of economic activity, demographic influences and the use of abatement measures all affect the trends in anthropogenic emissions of air pollution; up until the 1950s emissions tended to grow as the economy (and population) increased and to decline in periods of recession. Since then the relationship between economic growth and5

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