Urbanizacja a ochrona i kształtowanie przyrody

• Autorzy: Kusinski W.

Warianty tytułu

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Urban development and environment protection

• Języki publikacji: PL

Abstrakty

EN

In contemporary times urbanization is and extremely rapid process. In all the industrialized and developing countries a continual growth of towns is taking place. The towns increase in number, the area occupied by them becomes larger, and the share of urban population is higher in the total population of the countries. Urban development arises an ever-increasing interest the result of which are numerous researches done by specialists from various sciences and fields, such as sociologists, demographers, economists and geographers, who investigate diverse aspects of urbanization - this phenomenon of our times. In the urbanization studies till now comparatively scarce information is available on the ecological aspects of this process. The author of this paper suggests putting an emphasis on ecological aspects and calls for geographers to join in. The need for a deeper insight into the ecological aspects, in the author’s opinion, results from the following: 1 - a great concentration and intensity of the urban development influence on the nature in urbanized areas, 2 - a vast variety and complexity of these influences, 3 - the influence range and depth of the penetration of human activity on individual components of the environment as a result of a cumulative effect of various technological systems, 4 - accelerated growth rate of the natural processes on the urbanized areas, 5 - the huge scale of man-induced transformation of the nature. The investigation should result in the discoveries of laws and regularities governing the transformations of the natural environment in urbanized areas and to disclose the ways to counteract the negative effects of the progressing urbanization.

• Wydawca: -
• Czasopismo: Prace i Studia Geograficzne
• Rocznik: 1983
• Tom: 04
• Opis fizyczny: s.91-99

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Kusinski W.