Urban growth is increasing the demand for freshwater resources, yet surprisingly the water
sources of the world's large cities have never been globally assessed, hampering efforts to …

Urbanization and population aging are key indicators of human-related social attributes.
With economic progress and urban development, human living conditions and the level of …

With more than half the world's population now living in urban areas and with much of the
world still urbanizing, there are concerns that urbanization is a key driver of unsustainable …

Disasters and climate change impacts, as well as increased water demand, pose serious
risks to the provision of sustainable urban water services, eg, drinking water, sanitation, and …

As urban space continues to expand to accommodate a growing global population, there
remains a real need to quantify and qualify the impacts of urban space on natural processes …

Rapid urbanization has reduced the capacity of cities to mitigate and withstand disasters.
Strengthening urban ecological resilience (ER) is important for improving urban self …

Large scale and rapid urbanization processes call for a better quality of urban planning to
support human well-being. While compact cities aim to reduce land consumption …

Introduction he he extent and rate of global environmental changes, whether greenhouse
gas-induced warming, deforestation, desertification, or loss in biodiversity, are driven largely …

Prescriptions for a more sustainable society are usually piecemeal. They are inspired by
single issue criteria, no matter if sustainability is, rather, a whole system trait as it pertains to …

As ongoing parallel processes, urbanization and climate change call for overarching context-
specific responses that tackle the complex challenges involved and include a …