Urbanization and Climate Change

摘要

Currently, more than half of the world's population lives in an urban environment. Urbanization has been both a gradual and cyclical process since the beginning of human civilization. However the rate of urbanization increased dramatically during theindustrial revolution and evolved into "overflowing settlements" in the second part of the Twentieth Century During this time, a post-World War II population boom in developing countries was largely absorbed by the cities. As a result, 80 percent of theEuropean populace now lives in the urban areas.