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  Eco-Cities: An Approach for Sustainable Development

  By Shushila Kumari

  Abstract: Rapid urbanization has brought great challenges to cities and societies environmentally, socially, and economically. Rapid urbanization gradually degrades natural habitats, disrupt hydrological systems, and modify energy flow and nutrient cycling. Nowadays, these significant impacts of human activities, originated from population growth, rapid urbanization, increase in number of private motor vehicles, industrialization and mass livestock production, are increasing exponentially and causing great deal of environmental, social, and economic challenges both at …

  Published in International Journal of Sustainable Building Technology · Vol. 1, Issue 1, 2018 · pp. 25–32 Read article →