Global human population and urban development are increasing at unprecedented rates
and creating tremendous stress on local, regional, and global air and water quality …

This study presents a quantitative assessment of the environmental consequences of
urbanization in general and city bigness in particular in the context of the process of …

Urbanization is one of the biggest social transformations of modern time, driving and driven
by multiple social, economic, and environmental processes. The impacts of urbanization on …

Recent studies report that outdoor air pollution will become the main environmental cause of
premature death over the next few decades (OECD, 2012; WHO, 2014; World Bank, 2016) …

Climate change poses new and unique challenges that threaten lives and livelihoods. Given
the increasing risks and looming uncertainty of climate change, increasing attention has …

The development and use of indicators is common practice in efforts to promote urban
sustainability. Indicators used to measure urban sustainability tend to focus narrowly on …

This Handbook is the synthesis of more than ten years of research by an international
community of urbanization and global environmental scholars that have generated the core …

Urbanization is one of the major transformations, along with industrialization and economic
development, profoundly impacting human society and its living environment. Among the …

This paper discusses how an evolutionary viewpoint can contribute to the understanding of
the processes and mechanisms of urban environmental change. There are four major …

This article reviews water-related urban environmental conditions in Southeast Asia. It
argues that the development of urban environmental challenges in the region follows a …