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Risk Habitat Megacity (RHM)

Urbanization and the continuous growth of Megacities is one the most important global phenomena of today. Megacities are often measured according to their population size. In addition they are characterized by a high dynamic of change and often they are centres of national economies and thus, reflecting a habitat of both enormous chances and risks. In this context, Latin America is upon the most urbanized regions world-wide. The problems and challenges of cities in the region are somehow comparable and often caused by high resource consumption, deficits in access to education and other facilities of basic supply and suffer from bad air quality conditions due to high emissions, also from the transport sector.

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