Cities and Sustainability

Cities and Sustainability
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 239
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ISBN-10 : 9781317193364
ISBN-13 : 1317193369
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Book Synopsis Cities and Sustainability by : Daniel Hoornweg

Download or read book Cities and Sustainability written by Daniel Hoornweg and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities are the most likely actors to design and bring about lasting sustainability. An agreement among the world’s larger cities is possible, and likely a necessary but insufficient condition to achieve sustainable development. Cities and Sustainability explores the ways in which cities are both the biggest threat to sustainability, and the most powerful tool to get us to sustainable development. Employing an innovative methodology to a complex issue, the book proposes new metrics and approaches that assume cities as fundamental in the search for sustainability. Providing population projections for the world’s larger cities and a hierarchy of sustainable cities, the author develops two new tools: (i) a cities approach to physical and socio-economic boundaries, and (ii) sustainability costs curves. These tools are designed to be implemented in a multi-stakeholder, integrated partnership that truly maximizes the benefits of cities in the quest for sustainability. Applying the tools outlined in the book to case studies from Dakar, Mumbai, Sao Paulo, Shanghai and Toronto, this volume will be of great relevance to students, scholars and practitioners with an interest in urban and city management, climate change, and environment and sustainability more broadly.


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