How urban societies can adapt to resource shortage and climate change

  Available online: http://www.scibe.eu/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Satterthwaite-Urban-Phil-Trans-R- [...]

The increased pressures on the world’s natural resources and ecological systems in the past century, has been accompanied by rapid urban population growth. Urban centres themselves have ecological reputations since they drive unsustainable environmental change, rapidly increasing the use of fossil fuels and carbon dioxide emissions due to increasing per capita consumption levels. They also lead to high levels of resource use and waste generation, causing serious ecological consequences locally, regionally and globally, especially in terms of climate change. However, addressing the issue of urbanisation, this paper looks at how it may be able to mitigate the global ecological impacts.

Notes: Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society. A 2011, 369

Language(s): English

Tags: Society ; Climate change ; Urban zone ; Greenhouse gas (GHG) ; Latin America ; Region IV - North America, Central America and the Caribbean ; Region I - Africa ; Region II - Asia ; Caribbean Add tag