Sustainable development in Asia: Air pollution
Different regions of Asia recently has experienced air pollution reaching a climax, especially in urban areas of developing countries like Hanoi, Vietnam, Mumbai, India, or Jakarta, Indonesia. The World Air Quality index has constantly showing the level of pollution in Hanoi, India, Malaysia, Beijing as unhealthy for sensitive groups, unhealthy for all groups, and even hazardous in the recent months. Studies have shown that the main causes of urban air pollution are primarily rapid urbanization rate leading to the inability of the urban facilities to sustain healthy living conditions, traffic emissions and open burning of agricultural pollution. The rapid urbanization rate has been a consequence of various governmental branches’ failure, including the population control branch, the national immigration control department, the ministry of traffic and transportations, the city councils and so on. Because of the inability of these branches to catch up with the urbanization rate, publ...
