Social and Ecological Floods in the Attica Basin

Savvas Mavridis; Dimitrios Adamopoulos

DOI:10.22158/uspa.v1n2p220

Corpus ID: 134816290

Social and Ecological Floods in the Attica Basin

@inproceedings{Mavridis2018SocialAE,
  title={Social and Ecological Floods in the Attica Basin},
  author={Savvas Mavridis and Dimitrios Adamopoulos},
  year={2018}
}

Savvas Mavridis, Dimitrios Adamopoulos

Published 2018

Geography

Urbanization without industrialization, which is observed among others in many African countries and causes severe damage in the social system, leads to absolute or disguised dictatorships. This proportionally applies to the Attica basin, which counts up to 40% of the Greek population and 48% of the GDP. Marianne Fay and Charlotte Opal, in their article written for the World Bank entitled “Urbanization without Growth: A not so uncommon phenomenon”, highlight these phenomena in African countries… CONTINUE READING

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