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Urban Planet: Knowledge towards Sustainable Cities
Urban Planet: Knowledge towards Sustainable Cities
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2018
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Edited by Thomas Elmqvist, Xuemei Bai, Niki Frantzeskaki, Corrie Griffith, David Maddox, David Maddox, Susan Parnell, Susan Parnell, David Simon, David Simon
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The Urban Planet is the result of a collaborative project within Future Earth (www.futureearth.org). It emphasizes the need for a new knowledge genera tion agenda, given the urgency of understanding the sustainability challenges and options for a rapidly urbanizing planet. Our urban future will determine the viability and vitality of the human endeavor towards global sustainability. This centrality of cities to the sustainability of people, planet, and prosperity points to the need for continuous investments in an expanded and flexible urban science and practical knowledge generation that is forged out of innova tive interdisciplinary and multisectoral understandings of the complex systems that both drive and derive from the prevalence of urban ways of being. Greater understanding of urbanization processes and the multiscale interactions and feedbacks with the earth system is required for addressing the complex issues related to urbanization and sustainability, and for aiding in the solutions. This book aims, therefore, not only to provide a synthesis of existing knowledge across the different disciplines, but also to showcase new ways of producing and integrating knowledge, extending the frontier of urban research, and pro viding new directions in research and practice that will help us achieve the cities we want now and in the future.
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press ; License: CC-BY-NC-ND ; Source: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316647554 ; 356 pages
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Global Urbanization,
Health and Well-Being,
Macroeconomy and Urban Productivity,
Sustainability Transformation Emerging,
Global Organisms