Khan, A: Health & Environment:Key factors for Sustainable Ur

With the changing status and the drastic transformation of cities into concrete jungles, today it becomes very important to study the impacts of urbanization on the cities. The traditionally developed cities are now suffering from the burden of migrants, shortage of resources and permanent diseases. The book highlights the deteriorating status of nutrition, health and environmental conditions in the city due to increasing population and also the need of sustainable urban development. It also emphasize on the changing lifestyle of city dwellers which leads to the poor health and nutritional crisis in cities. Along with the degrading environment the discrepancies in the provision of medical and sanitation facilities to different socio-economic groups also magnify the problems. The book helps to understand the current and the challenging issues of the cities and to cope up with these by adoption of sustainable measures.