Urbanisation and climate change are urging cities to chart novel paths towards sustainable
futures. Many cities are turning to the alluring 'circular economy'(CE) concept to guide this …

Panarchy provides a heuristic to characterize the cross-scale dynamics of social-ecological
systems and a framework for how governance institutions should behave to be compatible …

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. The UN's
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set an ambitious agenda for global problem …

At a time when the majority of world's population live in urban areas, the role of cities in
addressing food system vulnerabilities is vital. One response has been a renewed focus by …

Smart cities have been evolving since their early appearance in late 1990s from
metropolitan-wide Information and Communication Technology (ICT) based solutions to …

Recent years have seen the appearance on urban agendas of social and environmental
issues not conventionally understood as municipal concerns. Often framed as policy areas …

Urbanism is an emerging phenomenon and international predictions demonstrate that more
than half of the increasing world population will live in cities by 2050. Interdisciplinary …

In the last four decades, public space production has shifted from being predominantly led
by the public sector to include a greater variety of private actors, large and small, for-profit …

This authoritative handbook surveys the full breadth and depth of SEA, bringing together a
range of international perspectives and insights on the theoretical, methodological and …

Multi-sectoral systems, such as cities or regional economies, face strategic challenges of
optimal development due to the complexity of interacting perspectives, interests, and …