SOCECOL E8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Environmental Health
26 May 2016
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The central point is that the great challenges of global sustainability will be addressed, in part, in an urban context. And planning for improving the environmental health of women and children must consider the problems they encounter in the slums of the world. The majority of the world"s urban poor no longer live in inner cities. Since 1970 the larger share of world urban population growth has been absorbed by slum communities on the periphery of third world cities. Civil conflict, failed states, the aftermaths of genocide, and violent inter-state conflict are, regrettably, on-going sources of new international refugees and internally displaced people. The idea of an interventionist state strongly committed to social housing and job development seems either a hallucination or a bad joke, because governments long ago abdicated any serious effort to combat slums and redress urban marginality.
