TY - JOUR
T1 - Prioritizing urban sustainability solutions
T2 - Coordinated approaches must incorporate scale-dependent built environment induced effects
AU - Georgescu, Matei
AU - Chow, W. T L
AU - Wang, Zhihua
AU - Brazel, A.
AU - Trapido-Lurie, Barbara
AU - Roth, M.
AU - Benson-Lira, V.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IOP Publishing Ltd.
PY - 2015/6/1
Y1 - 2015/6/1
N2 - Because of a projected surge of several billion urban inhabitants by mid-century, a rising urgency exists to advance local and strategically deployed measures intended to ameliorate negative consequences on urban climate (e.g., heat stress, poor air quality, energy/water availability). Here we highlight the importance of incorporating scale-dependent built environment induced solutions within the broader umbrella of urban sustainability outcomes, thereby accounting for fundamental physical principles. Contemporary and future design of settlements demands cooperative participation between planners, architects, and relevant stakeholders, with the urban and global climate community, which recognizes the complexity of the physical systems involved and is ideally fit to quantitatively examine the viability of proposed solutions. Such participatory efforts can aid the development of locally sensible approaches by integrating across the socioeconomic and climatic continuum, therefore providing opportunities facilitating comprehensive solutions that maximize benefits and limit unintended consequences.
AB - Because of a projected surge of several billion urban inhabitants by mid-century, a rising urgency exists to advance local and strategically deployed measures intended to ameliorate negative consequences on urban climate (e.g., heat stress, poor air quality, energy/water availability). Here we highlight the importance of incorporating scale-dependent built environment induced solutions within the broader umbrella of urban sustainability outcomes, thereby accounting for fundamental physical principles. Contemporary and future design of settlements demands cooperative participation between planners, architects, and relevant stakeholders, with the urban and global climate community, which recognizes the complexity of the physical systems involved and is ideally fit to quantitatively examine the viability of proposed solutions. Such participatory efforts can aid the development of locally sensible approaches by integrating across the socioeconomic and climatic continuum, therefore providing opportunities facilitating comprehensive solutions that maximize benefits and limit unintended consequences.
KW - adaptation
KW - climate
KW - mitigation
KW - sustainability
KW - urban
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U2 - 10.1088/1748-9326/10/6/061001
DO - 10.1088/1748-9326/10/6/061001
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84937468037
SN - 1748-9318
VL - 10
JO - Environmental Research Letters
JF - Environmental Research Letters
IS - 6
M1 - 061001
ER -