Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere

AMBIO, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 50(4), P. 834 - 869

Published: March 14, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed an interconnected and tightly coupled globalized world in rapid change. This article sets the scientific stage for understanding responding to such change global sustainability resilient societies. We provide a systemic overview of current situation where people nature are dynamically intertwined embedded biosphere, placing shocks extreme events as part this dynamic; humanity become major force shaping future Earth system whole; scale pace human dimension have caused climate change, loss biodiversity, growing inequalities, resilience deal with uncertainty surprise. Taken together, actions challenging biosphere foundation prosperous development civilizations. Anthropocene reality-of rising system-wide turbulence-calls transformative towards sustainable futures. Emerging technologies, social innovations, broader shifts cultural repertoires, well diverse portfolio active stewardship support highlighted essential parts transformations.

Language: Английский

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Dramatic uneven urbanization of large cities throughout the world in recent decades

Nature Communications, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: 11(1)

Published: Oct. 23, 2020

Abstract The world has experienced dramatic urbanization in recent decades. However, we still lack information about the characteristics of large cities throughout world. After analyzing 841 with built-up areas (BUAs) over 100 km 2 from 2001 to 2018, here found an uneven distribution at different economic levels. On average, low-income and lower-middle-income countries had highest urban population growth, BUA expansion upper-middle-income was more than three times that high-income countries. Globally, 10% BUAs 325 showed significant greening ( P < 0.05) 2018. In particular, China accounted for 32% cities, where 108 million people lived. Our quantitative results provide future sustainable development, especially rational developing

Language: Английский

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Unleashing the convergence amid digitalization and sustainability towards pursuing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): A holistic review

Journal of Cleaner Production, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: 280, P. 122204 - 122204

Published: Sept. 18, 2020

Language: Английский

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Building urban resilience with nature-based solutions: How can urban planning contribute?

Cities, Journal Year: 2019, Volume and Issue: 95, P. 102483 - 102483

Published: Oct. 24, 2019

Cities face increasing environmental, social and economic challenges that together threaten the resilience of urban areas residents who live work there. These include chronic stresses acute shocks, amplified by climate change impacts. Nature-based solutions have emerged as a concept for integrating ecosystem-based approaches to address range societal challenges. directly contribute increased resilience. However, implementing nature-based is inherently complex, given ecosystem services, their multi-functionality trade-offs between functions, across temporal spatial scales. Urban planning can play substantial role support implementation manage conflicts, well how equity dimensions are considered. This paper presents framework guides application solutions' implementation, addressing key temporal, spatial, functional aspects. The highlights questions, supporting information required these underpin inclusion We find while substantially, there continuing gaps in anthropocentric processes give voice non-human nature.

Language: Английский

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Urban agriculture — A necessary pathway towards urban resilience and global sustainability?

Landscape and Urban Planning, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 210, P. 104055 - 104055

Published: March 1, 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic newly brings food resilience in cities to our attention and the need question desired degree of self-sufficiency through urban agriculture. While these questions are by no means new periodically entering global research focus policy discussions during periods crises — last time financial crisis resulting price increases 2008 peri-urban agriculture continue be replaced land-uses rendering higher market values (e.g. housing, transport, leisure). loss priority for land-use planning is a trend with only few exceptions. We argue this essay that development has widely taken place due three blind spots planning. First, limited consideration social ecological vulnerabilities risk-related inequalities inhabitants, shortage among them, face different scenarios change, including climate change or events such as Covid-19. Second, disregard intensified negative environmental (and related social) externalities caused distant agricultural production, well lacking nutrient re-cycling potentials from wastewater) replace emission intensive mineral fertilizer use. Third, lack accounting multifunctionality multiple benefits it provides beyond provision food, insurance values, instance maintenance cultural heritage agro-biodiversity. Along lines, we existing knowledge about risks vulnerabilities, spatially explicit metabolism energy, water, nutrients), ecosystem services stronger jointly considered decision-making.

Language: Английский

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The Sustainability of Artificial Intelligence: An Urbanistic Viewpoint from the Lens of Smart and Sustainable Cities

Sustainability, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: 12(20), P. 8548 - 8548

Published: Oct. 15, 2020

The popularity and application of artificial intelligence (AI) are increasing rapidly all around the world—where, in simple terms, AI is a technology which mimics behaviors commonly associated with human intelligence. Today, various applications being used areas ranging from marketing to banking finance, agriculture healthcare security, space exploration robotics transport, chatbots creativity manufacturing. More recently, have also started become an integral part many urban services. Urban intelligences manage transport systems cities, run restaurants shops where every day urbanity expressed, repair infrastructure, govern multiple domains such as traffic, air quality monitoring, garbage collection, energy. In age uncertainty complexity that upon us, adoption expected continue, so its impact on sustainability our cities. This viewpoint explores questions lens smart sustainable generates insights into emerging potential symbiosis between urbanism. terms methodology, this deploys thorough review current status cities literature, research, developments, trends, applications. doing, it contributes existing academic debates fields AI. addition, by shedding light uptake seeks help policymakers, planners, citizens make informed decisions about

Language: Английский

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Thriving, Not Just Surviving in Changing Times: How Sustainability, Agility and Digitalization Intertwine with Organizational Resilience

Sustainability, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 13(4), P. 2052 - 2052

Published: Feb. 14, 2021

Nowadays, the buzzwords for organizations to be prepared competitive environment’s challenges are sustainability, digitalization, resilience and agility. However, despite fact that these concepts have come into common use at level of both scholars practitioners, nature relation between sustainability has not yet been sufficiently clarified. Above all, there is still no evidence what factors determine greater change in an organization also wants more sustainable, especially times crisis discontinuity. This research aims explore from a theoretical point view, through construction conceptual model, how dimensions interact help business become strategically resilient by leveraging digitization agility as enablers. A new view arises study, which goes beyond well-known ability absorb or adapt adversity, include strategic attribute could companies capture change-related opportunities design ways doing under stress. key set agile processes, enabled creates includes proactive, opportunity-focused attitude face change. Strategic lead organizational must understood multi-domain concept quite similar holistic sustainability: environment, economy society. Finally, offers propositions framework can empirically validated.

Language: Английский

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Green gentrification in European and North American cities

Nature Communications, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 13(1)

Published: July 2, 2022

Abstract Although urban greening is universally recognized as an essential part of sustainable and climate-responsive cities, a growing literature on green gentrification argues that new infrastructure, greenspace in particular, can contribute to gentrification, thus creating social racial inequalities access the benefits further environmental climate injustice. In response limited quantitative evidence documenting temporal relationship between greenspaces across entire let alone various international contexts, we employ spatially weighted Bayesian model test hypothesis 28 cities 9 countries North America Europe. Here show strong positive relevant for at least one decade 1990s–2000s occurred 2000–2016 17 cities. Our results also determine whether plays “lead”, “integrated”, or “subsidiary” role explaining gentrification.

Language: Английский

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Building community resilience in a context of climate change: The role of social capital

AMBIO, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 51(6), P. 1371 - 1387

Published: Jan. 11, 2022

Abstract Social capital is considered important for resilience across social levels, including communities, yet insights are scattered disciplines. This meta-synthesis of 187 studies examines conceptual and empirical understandings how relates to resilience, identifying implications community climate change practice. Different conceptualisations highlighted, also limited focus on underlying dimensions proactive types engaging with the complex challenge. Empirical show that structural socio-cultural aspects capital, multiple other factors formal actors all shaping role guiding outcomes. Thus, finding ways work these different elements important. Greater attention why outcomes emerge, interactions between factors, approaches will advance about nurture in context change.

Language: Английский

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Urban sustainability assessment: An overview and bibliometric analysis

Ecological Indicators, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: 121, P. 107102 - 107102

Published: Oct. 30, 2020

Following the recognition of significance urban areas for achieving sustainable development in late 1980′s, first studies on 'urban sustainability assessment' were published early 1990s. Since then, field has grown rapidly, with over 300 papers annually recent years. The main objective this study is to present a bibliometric analysis about thirty years research assessment. literature database includes 3877 articles Web Science. VOSviewer and SciMAT are two science mapping software tools that utilized purpose. detect major focus identify influential authors, publications, journals using various network techniques such as term co-occurrence, co-citation, bibliographic coupling. Also, used understand how intellectual base evolved time what themes have contributed evolution. For purpose, interval was divided into four sub-periods (i.e., 1991–2000; 2001–2009; 2010–2015; 2016–2020). Results show initially been mainly focused few but later become more diversified acknowledge multi-dimensional characteristics sustainability. Despite this, environmental aspects still dominant socio-economic issues equity, justice, public engagement not well represented. Sustainable indicators, energy, green infrastructure, water, land use, design thematic areas, three playing important roles structuring field. This can be point reference those interested gaining knowledge assessment its

Language: Английский

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