oceania

In Polynesia, population development has been strongly impacted by emigration, although with the improvement of an urban fabric funded by emigrant remittances, the capitals have develop into tiny modern towns. The price of urban growth in Melanesia has tended to produce shantytowns, with surrounding villages getting engulfed by significant agglomerations. The villages affected by these developments have not been supplied with the most simple urban infrastructures . The approach of urbanization in these micro-states may entail important social and environmental challenges because of the sustained level of urban growth observed in some nations and high population densities in the atolls....