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Urban planet : knowledge towards sustainable cities
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ISBN: 1316647552 1107196930 1108195377 1108186963 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Global urbanization promises better services, stronger economies, and more connections; it also carries risks and unforeseeable consequences. To deepen our understanding of this complex process and its importance for global sustainability, we need to build interdisciplinary knowledge around a systems approach. Urban Planet takes an integrative look at our urban environment, bringing together scholars from a diverse range of disciplines: from sociology and political science to evolutionary biology, geography, economics and engineering. It includes the perspectives of often neglected voices: architects, journalists, artists and activists. The book provides a much needed cross-scale perspective, connecting challenges and solutions on a local scale with drivers and policy frameworks on a regional and global scale. The authors argue that to overcome the major challenges we are facing, we must embark on a large-scale reinvention of how we live together, grounded in inclusiveness and sustainability. This title is also available Open Access.


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Global sustainability & human prosperity.
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ISBN: 9289327715 9789289327718 Year: 2014 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] Nordic Council Of Ministe

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The development of a Post-2015 agenda and Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs, provide a global window of opportunity to address both social needs and environmental challenges together. This discussion paper by the Stockholm Resilience Centre looks into the links between human wellbeing and the biosphere, and describes why and how these links should influence the formulation of the new SDGs. It explores what we can learn from the MDGs, and how existing international agreements can be reflected in the Post-2015 MDG process. The paper also seeks to contribute to the elaboration of targets, including process-oriented targets and scalable indicators suitable for a rapidly changing world.


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Urbanization, biodiversity and ecosystem services : challenges and opportunities.
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ISBN: 9789400770881 9789400770874 940077088X 9400770871 3319656392 9783319656397 9402400915 Year: 2013 Publisher: Dordrecht Springer

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To understand how the world's ecosystems are changing we need to understand cities, and to create better cities we need to understand the ecosystems they depend on. The failure of most markets, government policies and even urban studies to take these relations into account has put cities, and increasingly the whole world, in a difficult position. Studies like Urbanization, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services can help us to extricate ourselves, provided we act on the knowledge they provide. Gordon McGranahan International Institute for Environment and Development The challenges of urbanization are profound, but so too are the opportunities. Cities can reconcile human society and biodiversity by creating environments that are ecologically sustainable, economically productive, socially just, politically participatory and culturally vibrant. I commend this study to all who have a stake in creating ecologically sustainable urbanization for the benefit of humanity and the planet. Ban Ki-moon Secretary-General, United Nations.

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Science --- International law --- Environmental law --- General ecology and biosociology --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Production management --- Environmental planning --- Economic geography --- ruimtelijke ordening --- biologie --- wetenschap --- architectuur --- ecologie --- internationaal recht --- duurzame ontwikkeling --- wetenschappen --- wiskunde --- milieurecht --- Urbanization --- Urban ecology (Sociology) --- City planning --- Sustainable development --- Environmental aspects --- Urban ecology (Biology). --- Urban planning. --- City planning. --- Sustainable development. --- System theory. --- International environmental law. --- Development, Sustainable --- Ecologically sustainable development --- Economic development, Sustainable --- Economic sustainability --- ESD (Ecologically sustainable development) --- Smart growth --- Sustainable economic development --- Economic development --- International environmental law --- Common heritage of mankind (International law) --- Systems, Theory of --- Systems science --- Cities and towns --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Land use --- Planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- City ecology (Biology) --- Ecology --- Philosophy --- Government policy --- Management --- City planning - Environmental aspects --- Urban Ecology --- Urbanism --- Sustainable Development --- Complex Systems --- Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary --- International Environmental Law --- Urban Geography and Urbanism --- Environmental Social Sciences --- Humanities and Social Sciences --- Biodiversity --- Challenges --- Ecosystem services --- Opportunities --- Ecological science, the Biosphere --- Urban & municipal planning --- Sustainability --- Applied mathematics --- Interdisciplinary studies --- Public international law: environment --- Medicine. --- Proteins . --- Biology—Technique. --- Biomedicine, general. --- Protein Science. --- Protein-Ligand Interactions. --- Biological Techniques. --- Urban ecology (Biology) --- Biology --- Technique.


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npj Urban Sustainability.
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ISSN: 26618001 Year: 2021 Publisher: London : Nature Publishing Group UK,

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Online-only and open access, npj Urban Sustainability publishes inter-and cross-disciplinary research into how cities are reshaping and are being reshaped to meet major economic, social and environmental challenges, including how digital tools and big data are playing an increasing role in this shaping.


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Sexual dimorphism and biotic interactions

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Urbanization, biodiversity and ecosystem services: challenges and opportunities: a global assessment
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ISBN: 9789400770881 9789400770874 Year: 2013 Publisher: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands

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To understand how the world’s ecosystems are changing we need to understand cities, and to create better cities we need to understand the ecosystems they depend on. The failure of most markets, government policies and even urban studies to take these relations into account has put cities, and increasingly the whole world, in a difficult position. Studies like Urbanization, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services can help us to extricate ourselves, provided we act on the knowledge they provide. Gordon McGranahan International Institute for Environment and Development The challenges of urbanization are profound, but so too are the opportunities. Cities can reconcile human society and biodiversity by creating environments that are ecologically sustainable, economically productive, socially just, politically participatory and culturally vibrant. I commend this study to all who have a stake in creating ecologically sustainable urbanization for the benefit of humanity and the planet. Ban Ki-moon Secretary-General, United Nations.

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