Sentence examples for urbanisation poor from inspiring English sources

Environmental drivers of disease transmission include flooding, urbanisation, poor sanitation, changes in land use and agricultural practices, and socioeconomic factors.

The resurgence of TB in Africa has been attributed to a combination of weak health systems, rapid urbanisation, poor living conditions in fast-growing cities, and the HIV epidemic (2).

On the other hand, urbanisation makes poor people richer.

And the dangers are growing every month because of the very rapid pace of urbanisation, with poor people moving from smaller towns and villages to big cities where they create slums which have no infrastructure investment in sanitation".

Nowhere has embraced the idea of sponge cities as enthusiastically as China, perhaps because few countries are wrestling so painfully with the twin problems of rapid urbanisation and poor water management.

The case rests on evidence of increasing urbanisation of the poor, frequent conflicts between traders and city authorities, badly planned markets and urban agriculture, increasing congestion and poor roads.

Europe is also faring badly on other environmental indicators, including the loss of biodiversity to intensive farming and urbanisation, and the poor state of many inland freshwater systems, according to the State of the Environment report for 2015, published by the European Environment Agency on Tuesday.

This system apparently stopped working in the early nineteenth century, in part because of the industrial revolution and urbanisation, which meant that poorer people weren't evenly spread out over the country, but clustered around cities and sites of employment.

For leaders of middle-income and poor countries getting urbanisation right is already critical.

With rapid urbanisation, the number of urban poor, including slum dwellers, is also on rise.

Marginalisation of health has been exposed throughout this paper: (i) by the dominance of econometric parameters to define the resource curse, (ii) by the lack of a longer-term analysis taking into account the health consequences of urbanisation and (iii) by the poor weight that HIA and other health mitigation measures carry in the face of economic interests.