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As a contrast the fourth study was located in a developing country in the tropics. A recurrent pattern through the tropics is for urban growth to outstrip the capacity of service systems, particularly those concerned with water supply and waste disposal. The hazards of poor sanitation are thereby added to the traditional threats from tropical diseases. Many of the expanding towns also have food supply problems because the surrounding country has been developed for the production of cash crops and yields little food for local consumption. The problem tends to be aggravated by the migration of farmers and their families into the towns and by inadequate arrangements for storing food and transporting it from rural areas.
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© 1977 J. M. Edington And M. A. Edington
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Edington, J.M., Edington, M.A. (1977). A tropical development area. In: Ecology and Environmental Planning. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5738-1_10
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