Understanding Cities: Advances in Integrated Assessment of Urban Sustainability

Publication date: 2014
Action: TU0902
  • Pages: 214
  • Author(s): Edited by Richard Dawson, Olivier Heidrich, Stephen Dobson and Efren Feliu
  • Publisher(s): CESER, New Castle University
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  • ISBN/ISSN: 978-0-9928437-0-0

The urgent need to reconfigure urban areas to consume fewer resources, generate less pollution, be more resilient to the impacts of extreme events and become more sustainable in general, is widely recognised. To address these issues, requires integrated thinking across a range of urban systems, topics, issues and perspectives that are traditionally considered separately.