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Altrock, U. (2016): Polyzentrale Metropolregion Perlflussdelta - Von der verlängerten Werkbank zur südchinesischen Megacity. In: Danielzyk, R., Wiechmann, T., Münter, A.(Eds.): Polyzentrale Metropolregionen, pp. 418-446, Detmold

Azzam, R., Strohschön, R., Baier, K., Lu, L., Wiethoff, K., Bercht, A., Wehrhahn, R. (2013): Water quality and socio-ecological vulnerability regarding urban development in selected case stud-ies of megacity Guangzhou, China. In: Kraas, F., Aggarwal, S., Coy, M., Mertins, G.(Eds.): Megacities. Our global urban future, International Year of Planet Earth, pp. 33-58, Dordrecht, Heidelberg, New York, London: Springer

Baier, K., Schmitz, K., Azzam, R., Strohschön, R. (2014): Management tools for sustainable groundwater protection in mega urban areas – small scale land use and groundwater vulnerability analyses in the South-Chinese megacity Guangzhou. In: Int’l Journal of Environmental Research, 8 (2), pp. 249-262

Bercht, A. (2013): Glurbanization of the Chinese megacity Guangzhou – image building and city development through entrepreneurial governance. In: Geographica Helvetica, 68 (2), pp. 129-138 [online access]

Bork, T., Kraas, F., Yuan, Y. (2010): Migrant's Health, Health Facilities and Services in Villages-in-the-city in Guangzhou, China. In: Gransow, Z.(Eds.): Berliner Chinahefte 38, pp. 72-93

Bork, T., Kraas, F., Xue, D., Li, Z. (2011): Urban Environmental Health challenges in China’s Villages-in-the-city. In: Geographische Zeitschrift , 99 (1), pp. 16-35

Bork-Hüffer, T., Etzold, B., Gransow, B., Tomba, L., Sterly, H., Suda, K., Kraas, F., Flock, R. (2016): Agency and the Making of Transient Urban Spaces: Examples of Migrants in the City in the Pearl River Delta, China, and Dhaka, Bangladesh. In: Population, Space and Place 22, pp. 128-145

Braun, B., Aßheuer, T. (2011): Floods in megacity environments: vulnerability and coping strategies of slum dwellers in Dhaka/Bangladesh. In: Natural Hazard, 58 (2), pp. 771-787 [online access]

Breitung, W. (2011): Borders and the city – Intra-urban boundaries in Guangzhou (China). In: Quaestiones Geographicae, 30 (4), pp. 55-61

Burkart, K., Endlicher, W. (2009): Assessing the Atmospheric Impact on Public Health in the Megacity of Dhaka, Bangladesh. In: Die Erde, 2009 (140, 1), pp. 93-109 [online access]

Burkart, K., Grübner, O., Khan, M., Staffeld, R. (2008): Megacity Dhaka - Informal Settlements, Urban Environment and Public Health. In: Geographische Rundschau, International Edition, 4 (1), pp. 4-11 [online access]

Butsch, C., Etzold, B., Sakdapolrak, P. (2009): The Megacity Resilience Framework . In: Policy Brief. Munich Re Foundation & United Nations University - Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) [online access]

Etzold, B., Keck, M. (2009): Politics of Space in the Megacity Dhaka: Negotiation of Rules in Contested Urban Arenas. In: UGEC Update, 2009 (2), pp. 13-15 [online access]

Etzold, B. (2008): Street Food in the Megacity Dhaka: How can we conceptualize its role within the megaurban food system. In: UNU-EHS SOURCE, 2008 (10) [online access]

Fokdal, J. (2014): Embodiment of the urban. Relational space in the context of the megacity of Guangzhou.. In: Dr.-Ing., Technische Universität Berlin

Gransow, B. (2012): Contested Urbanization in China: Exploring Informal Spaces of Migrants-in-the-City. In: Harvard Asia Quarterly, XIV, pp. 12-24

Gransow, B., Hackenbroch, K. (2019): 3.2.3 Urban Restructuring: Forced Inner-City Mobility of Rural Migrants. In: Kraas, F., et al., .(Eds.): Mega Cities. Mega Challenge. Informal Dynamics of Global Change. Insights from Dhaka, Bangladesh and Pearl River Delta, China, pp. 82-85, Stuttgart, Borntraeger Science Publishers

Griffiths, P., Hostert, P., Gruebner, O., van der Linden, S. (2010): Mapping megacity growth with multi-sensor data. In: Remote Sensing of Environment, 114 (2010), pp. 426–439 [online access]

Grübner, O., Khan, M., Hostert, P. (2011): Spatial epidemiologic applications in public health research – examples from the megacity of Dhaka. In: Krämer, A., Khan, M., Kraas, F.(Eds.): Health in megacities and urban areas, Springer

Kabir, H., Endlicher, W., Jägermeyr, J. (2009): Calculation of bright roof-tops for solar PV applications in Dhaka Megacity, Bangladesh. In: Renewable Energy, 35 (8), pp. 1760-1764 [online access]

Keck, M., Staffeld, R. (2009): Formal and Informal Business Arrangements: Comparing food and plastic wholesale activities in the Megacity of Dhaka. In: Draft paper, Workshop: “Urban Development in a Globalising World - Overcoming the Formal-Informal Divide” Berlin, WZB, 12-13 June 2009 [online access]

Keck, M., Etzold, B., Bohle, H., Zingel, W. (2008): Reis für die Megacity. Nahrungsversorgung von Dhaka zwischen globalen Risiken und lokalen Verwundbarkeiten. In: Geographische Rundschau, 60 (11), pp. 28-37 [online access]

Keck, M. (2008): Feeding a Megacity: Investigating the Food Systems of Dhaka, Bangladesh. In: South Asia Institute Report 2008, Südasien-Institut, pp. 10-11 [online access]

Khan, M., Krämer, A., Kabir, R., Kabir, M. (2008): Relationship between depression and spousal violence against women in the megacity of Dhaka: slum and non-slum comparisons. Presented at the 9th South East Asia Regional Scientific Meeting of the International Epidemiological Association (IEA), February 9-12, Dhaka. In: 9th South East Asia Regional Scientific Meeting of the International Epidemiological Association (IEA), pp. 208-209

Khan, M., Krämer, A., Grübner, O. (2009): Comparison of Health-Related Outcomes between Urban Slums, Urban Affluent and Rural Areas in and around Dhaka Megacity, Bangladesh. In: Die Erde, 2009 (140, 1), pp. 69-92 [online access]

Khan, M., Jahn, H., Krämer, A. (2009): Poor health outcomes including the burden of self-reported diarrhoea among adults living in the slums of Dhaka megacity with respect to water and water-related variables. In: Baier, K., Strohschön, R., Azzam, R.(Eds.): Megacities: Interactions between land use and water management, 99, pp. 119-130, Aachen [online access]

Kraas, F., Kroll, M., Sterly, H. (2019): Global Shifts and Dynamics in the Megacity Landscape. In: Kraas, F., et al., .(Eds.): Megacities – Megachallenge: Informal Dynamics of Global Change. Insights from Dhaka, Bangladesh, and Pearl River Delta, China, pp. 24-32, Stuttgart, Borntraeger Science Publishers

Kreibich, V., Hill, A., Lindner, C., Hühner, T. (2008): Dar es Salaam, Tansania – Megacity der Zukunft. In: Geographische Rundschau, 60 (11), pp. 12-19 [online access]

Lu, L., Baier, K. (2009): The analysis of urban land use types by multispectral satellite image, using the example of the megacity Guangzhou, China. In: Baier, K., Strohschön, R.(Eds.): Proceedings of Megacities - Interactions Between Land Use and Water Management. Mitteilungen zur Ingenieurgeologie und Hydrogeologie, 99, pp. 31-40, Aachen [online access]

Putra, D., Baier , K. (2008): Impact of Urbanization on Groundwater Recharge - The Example of the Indonesian Million City Yogyakarta. In: UN Habitat- United Nations Settlement Programs: Fourth session of the World Urban Forum, Nanjing, China, Documentations of Germany's Contribution to a Sustainable Urban Future [online access]

Ruckert, C. (2007): Metamorphocity' Pearl River Delta: A multidimensional spatial system and its local driving forces. Paper presented at the ENHR Conference 2007, Rotterdam. . In: ENHR Conference 2007, Rotterdam. [online access]

Sakdapolrak, P., Butsch, C., Carter, R., Cojocaru, M., Etzold, B., Kishor, N., Lacambra, C., Reyes, M., Sagala, S. (2008): The Megacity Resilience Framework. In: UNU-EHS SOURCE, 2008 (10) [online access]

Schröder, F., Waibel, M. (2010): Urban Governance of Economic Upgrading Processes in China: The Case of Guangzhou Science City. In: Internationales Asienforum (International Quarterly for Asian Studies), 41 (1-2) [online access]

Strohschön, R., Baier, K., Post, C. (2010): The effects of formal and informal mega-urban development processes on water resources - case study area megacity Guangzhou, China. In: Zereini, F., Hashwa, F.(Eds.): Proceedings of the 5th environmental symposium of German-Arab scientific forum for environmental studies. Impact of global warming on water resources in the Middle East and North Africa, pp. 32f.

Strohschön, R., Wiethoff, K., Baier, K., Lu, L., Bercht, A., Wehrhahn, R., Azzam, R. (2013): Land use and water quality in Guangzhou, China: a survey of ecological and social vulnerability in four urban units of a rapidly developing megacity. In: Int’l Journal of Environmental Research , 7 (2), pp. 343-358

Suda, K. (2017): Urban welfare and social justice: individual perspectives of highly-educated rural-to-urban migrants in the city of Guangzhou. In: Carillo, B., Hood, J., Kadetz, P.(Eds.): Handbook of Welfare in China, pp. 223-251, Cheltenham (UK)/Northampton, MA/USA: Edward Elgar Publishing

Waibel, M., Schröder, F. (2011): The Interplay of Innovative Urban Planning Approaches and Economic Upgrading in China: The Case of Guangzhou Mega-City. In: disP – The Planning Review, 187, pp. 49-58 [online access]

Wuttke, C., Waibel, M. (2008): The evolution of local state capacity and institutional change in East-Asian mega-urban regions: The case of the Pearl River Delta in China. In: CEU Political Science Journal (Institutional Reforms and State Capacity), 3 (2), pp. 230-251 [online access]

Wuttke, C., Schröder, F., Xiao, L. (2010): Contemporary Planning Issues in a Pioneering City: The Governance of Urban Redevelopment in Shenzhen, China. In: Pacific News, 33 (Special Issue on Contemporary Urban China) (Jan/Feb), pp. 9-12 [online access]

Xue, D., Lin, T., Kraas, F., Kilian, P. (2010): Informal job-seeking agencies and their role in 'World Factory' of the Pearl River Delta: A case study in Tangxia Township, Dongguan City, Guangdong. In: Geographical Research, 29 (19), pp. 1793-1801