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    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
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  • Health in Megacities and Urban Areas

    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    Diverse driving forces, processes and actors are responsible for different trends in the development of megacities and large urban areas. Under the dynamics of global change, megacities are themselves changing: On the one hand they are prone to increasing socio-economic vulnerability due to pronounced poverty, socio-spatial and political fragmentation, sometimes with extreme forms of segregation, ... Leer más

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    Series series Medicine (R0)
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