Abstract Between 60% and 80% of global energy is consumed in urban areas and given the
projected increase in world׳ s urban population, this share is expected to further increase in …

Transformative governance is an approach to environmental governance that has the
capacity to respond to, manage, and trigger regime shifts in coupled social-ecological …

Green infrastructure (GI) revitalizes vegetation and soil, restores hydro-ecological processes
destroyed by traditional urbanization, and naturally manages stormwater on-site, offering …

Cities play a crucial role in shaping coupled human-environment systems at local and global
scales. With a view to amounting sustainability deficits, urban stakeholders thus require …

Social-ecological systems (SES) research offers new theory and evidence to transform
sustainable development to better contend with the challenges of the Anthropocene. Four …

Cities are wrestling with the practical challenges of transitioning urban water services to
become water sensitive; capable of enhancing liveability, sustainability, resilience and …

The aim of this paper is to analyse the emergence of the concept of 'urban resilience'in the
literature and to assess its potentials and limitations as an element of policy planning. Using …

In recent years there has been rising scientific and policy interest in the adaptive
governance of social-ecological systems. A systematic literature review of adaptive …

There is a consensus about the strategic importance of cities and urban areas for achieving
a global transformation towards sustainability. While there is mounting interest in the types of …

Traditional urban stormwater management involves rapid removal of stormwater through
centralized conveyance systems of curb–gutter–pipe networks. This results in many adverse …