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Disadvantages Of Megacities

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Cities exist because of the benefits of centralized production and exchange. By living and working in cities, we achieve a higher standard of living but also put up with pollution, noise and congestion. (O'Sullivan, 2012)
Megacities are large and highly dynamic systems, and represent concentrated sites of human life as well as ecological stress and pollution. Due to the combination of pollution and stress as neighbourhoods grow in size and their resource capacity, the transformation in social-environmental relations is also observed. Over time more local environmental hazards associated with inadequate services and sanitation is being replaced by risks that accrue at the city scale. Most megacities are important nodes in the production of pollution and greenhouse emissions which have negative impacts on populations at regional and also global scales. Historically coastal megacities have recorded some of the highest economic losses due to disaster events but megacities are also the centres of capacity, ingenuity and resources. The management of hazards, vulnerability and environmental management in megacities is very complex, and governance responses require special attention to the multiple scales of impact. (Mark Pelling, 2013)
Cities around the world are growing at a never experienced rate. Over the past thirty years the number of people …show more content…

Automobiles contribution is reported to account for 40 to 80% of the total air pollution in megacities. The challenge Megacities face is how to reduce the adverse environmental impacts and other negative effects of transportation without giving up the benefits of mobility. This becomes more pressing under conditions of rapid urban growth, which is likely to increase travel demand significantly. (S. K. Goyal,

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