{"id":11366,"date":"2020-06-19T17:40:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T14:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/global-urbanization-created-the-conditions-for-the-current-coronavirus-pandemic\/"},"modified":"2020-06-19T17:40:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T14:40:00","slug":"global-urbanization-created-the-conditions-for-the-current-coronavirus-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/global-urbanization-created-the-conditions-for-the-current-coronavirus-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"#Global urbanization created the conditions for the current coronavirus pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Global urbanization created the conditions for the current coronavirus pandemic<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n COVID-19 brought the relation between humans and animals to the core of social<\/a> and scientific debates. COVID-19 is a zoonotic disease: the coronavirus that causes it crossed species boundaries from animals to humans. A wet market in Wuhan may be the place where that original species-jump happ<\/a>ened.<\/p>\n
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There is mounting evidence that humans now transmit COVID-19 back to other animal species: domesticated dogs and cats, but also tigers in captivity and possibly apes. As an April 2020 article in the Los Angeles Times<\/i> notes, diseases like COVID-19 “are an expected consequence of how we’re choosing to treat animals and their habitats.”<\/p>\n

Wildlife trade, deforestation, land conversion, industrial animal farming and burning fossil fuels are contributing to the increasing frequency of novel zoonotic diseases.
\nUrbanization is both a driver of zoonosis and a determining influence on human-nature and human-animal relationships.
\nUrban political ecology considers urbanization as a political, economic, social and ecological process. It is a field of study that investigates the relationships that physically sustain urban life and the processes that affect them.
\nThe reach of urbanization<\/b>
\nUrbanization is a process that involves extending the city as much as it involves the concentration of activities and movements of people and stuff. Traditionally, the urban periphery is described as either polished middle-class suburbia with perfectly manicured lawns or invisible dumping ground: polluting factories, nuclear plants, garbage dumps and recycling facilities as well as retirement homes. <\/p>\n

Today, however, the ever-extending size and importance of the urban periphery takes a variety of forms: informal settlements, gated communities, tower estates, peri-urban villages, classical suburbs, warehouse districts, aerotropolises (areas surrounding an airport) as well as recreational and infrastructural spaces.
\nRemnants of industrialism\u2014such as abandoned mines, decommissioned factories and outdated agricultural production facilities\u2014are being reclaimed as suburban space. These old and new developments often rely on infringements of ancient land rights.
\nDriving urbanization<\/b>
\nExtended urbanization happens within a capitalist framework of massive inequality. The food, gas, electricity and water that make urban life possible are often packaged, piped, cabled and plumbed into the city. Urban lifestyles are sustained by vast networks of infrastructure and industry that reach into environments well beyond. <\/p>\n

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