Urban-rural boundaries are often abrupt and unmitigated, a trait that significantly enhances
their ecological vulnerability. Nonetheless, such fringe systems enclose a high potential in …

Urban areas are currently experiencing a number of adverse effects associated with both
climate induced change and the nature of development processes. This has led to, not only …

Businesses are under pressure to increasingly consider sustainability as an integral part of
the enterprise and business model. Nature-based solutions (NBS) definitions reflect that …

Peri-urban rural system rehabilitation is pivotal to the socio-ecological balanced functioning
of urban systems. In this paper, we investigate the performance of agroforestry participative …

Cities have always been places that generate problems, but also places where solutions are
born. In recent years, cities have become a testing ground for finding and testing solutions to …

Over the last few years, community empowerment has become a central focus when
discussing the sustainability of large-scale urban regeneration processes, especially those …

The ongoing effects of the climate emergency and the recognition of the need to redesign
cities to cope with future socio-environmental changes and increase the quality of life of …

The current climate emergency and the emergence of a stagflation scenario in Europe have
revealed the scarce presence of environmental and resilience-related goals not only in the …

A holistic vision for urban sustainability looks at the city as an integration of energy,
environment, mobility, urban design, new technologies and, most importantly,'people and …

This article explores conceptualizations of future relationships between humans and nature
in urban planning, introducing the special issue 3. It initiates by examining how the future of …