Urbanisation is the increase in the proportion of people living in towns and cities.
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Mega city
a very large city, typically one with a population of over ten million people.
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Natural increase
The difference between the birth rate and the death rate of a country or place is called the natural increase.
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Squatter settlements
Squatter settlements are any collection of buildings where the people have no legal rights to the land they are built upon.
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Inequalities
The geography of economic inequality refers to the spatial sorting of individuals by income, and the correlated patterning of economic resources and opportunities.
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Informal economy
An economy that is made of people with informal jobs, mainly.
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Sanitation
The study and application of procedures and measures designed to protect public health, as in the provision of clean water and the disposal of sewage and waste.
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Urban sprawl
Urban sprawl or suburban sprawl mainly refers to the unrestricted growth in many urban areas of housing, commercial development, and roads over large expanses of land, with little concern for urban planning.
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Green field sites
Greenfield site - an area of land that has not been developed previously.
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Social deprivation
Social deprivation is the extent to which a person, or a community, lacks what they really need to have a decent life, such as work, money, housing, and services.
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Brownfield sites
Brownfield site - an old industrial or inner-city site that is cleared for a new building development.
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Derelict
A place that is specifically left with o way of looking after it/ how a place may look after years of neglect.
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Urban regeneration
Urban regeneration is the attempt to reverse that decline by both improving the physical structure, and, more importantly and elusively, the economy of those areas.
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NEEs
It means Newly Emerging Economies
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Demographic transition model
Demographic transition is a model used to represent the movement of high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates as a country develops from a pre-industrial to an industrialized economic system.
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Colonialism
Colonialism is defined as “control by one power over a dependent area or people.”
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Gross national income
GNI is the total amount of money earned by a nation's people and businesses. It is used to measure and track a nation's wealth from year to year.
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Human development index
The Human Development Index (commonly abbreviated HDI) is a summary of human development around the world and implies whether a country is developed, still developing, or underdeveloped based on factors such as life expectancy, and education.
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Infrastructure
Infrastructure refers to structures, systems and facilities serving the economy of a business, industry, country, city, town, or area; including the services and facilities necessary for its economy to function.
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Ecotourism
Ecotourism is a type of sustainable development. The aim of ecotourism is to reduce the impact that tourism has on naturally beautiful environments. It means to educate and provide areas for wildlife to grow and be safe.
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Exports
Exports are the goods and services produced in one country and purchased by residents of another country.
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Post-industrial economy
A post-industrial economy is a period of growth within an industrialized economy or nation in which the relative importance of manufacturing reduces and that of services, information, and research grows.
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Agribusiness
When a farm is run like a large industrial business they are known as an agribusiness.
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Energy security
The ability of a nation to secure sufficient, affordable and consistent energy supplies for its domestic, industrial, transport and military requirements is termed Energy Security.
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a very large city, typically one with a population of over ten million people.
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Mega city
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The difference between the birth rate and the death rate of a country or place is called the natural increase.
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Squatter settlements are any collection of buildings where the people have no legal rights to the land they are built upon.
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The geography of economic inequality refers to the spatial sorting of individuals by income, and the correlated patterning of economic resources and opportunities.
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