Sustainability and resilience for transformation in the urban century

T Elmqvist, E Andersson, N Frantzeskaki… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
We have entered the urban century and addressing a broad suite of sustainability
challenges in urban areas is increasingly key for our chances to transform the entire planet …

Food-energy-water (FEW) nexus for urban sustainability: A comprehensive review

P Zhang, L Zhang, Y Chang, M Xu, Y Hao… - Resources …, 2019 - Elsevier
The emerging popularity of the nexus discussion reflects the ongoing transition from a
sectoral or silo approach to an integrative approach to address the global challenges …

A systematic literature review on urban resilience enabled with asset and disaster risk management approaches and GIS-based decision support tools

SMHS Rezvani, MJ Falcão, D Komljenovic… - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Featured Application This paper presents a review of literature on urban resilience,
highlighting research gaps and suggesting solutions such as using asset and disaster risk …

Environmental-social-economic footprints of consumption and trade in the Asia-Pacific region

L Yang, Y Wang, R Wang, JJ Klemeš… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Asia-Pacific (APAC) has been the world's most dynamic emerging area of economic
development and trade in recent decades. Here, we reveal the significant and imbalanced …

Innovations in Urban Green and Blue Infrastructure: Tackling local and global challenges in cities

JAP de Oliveira, RA Bellezoni, W Shih… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2022 - Elsevier
Traditional engineering approaches alone (gray infrastructure) are not able to meet all the
challenges of sustainability posed by growing urban population and consumption. Urban …

Linking urbanization and the environment: Conceptual and empirical advances

X Bai, T McPhearson, H Cleugh… - Annual review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
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 …

A system dynamics model to simulate the water-energy-food nexus of resource-based regions: A case study in Daqing City, China

C Wen, W Dong, Q Zhang, N He, T Li - Science of the Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Resource-based regions (RBRs) have made significant contributions to the social and
economic development of nations. The long-term and high-intensity development of …

The water-energy-food nexus: An integration agenda and implications for urban governance

F Artioli, M Acuto, J McArthur - Political Geography, 2017 - Elsevier
The water-energy-food nexus has achieved considerable prominence across academic
research and policy sectors. The nexus sets an imperative for integrated management and …

A pair of metal organic framework (MOF)-derived oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalysts for zinc-air batteries

S Agarwal, X Yu, A Manthiram - Materials Today Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Metal organic frameworks (MOFs) are amazing precursors for the development of functional
catalysts due to their ability of being modified both structurally and in terms of composition …

Positive visions for guiding urban transformations toward sustainable futures

T McPhearson, DM Iwaniec, X Bai - Current opinion in environmental …, 2016 - Elsevier
Highlights•Urban and global futures tend to be dystopian challenging decision-making and
action.•Positives visions, however, allow exploration of alternative and desirable urban …