Sustainable Pathways for Our Cities and Regions - Planning Within Planetary Boundaries

This book builds on recent publications on cities and climate change and looks at the ways in which current planning approaches will need to be adapted to embrace concepts including green growth, planetary boundaries, healthy cities and longer-term sustainability.

List of contents

Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgements. Abbreviations. 1. Introduction. 2. Planning within Planetary Boundaries Professors Barbara Norman and Will Steffen. 3. Challenges for the Urban 21st Century. 4. Thinking Outside the Square: Ideas, Innovation and Inspiration. 5. Implementing Plans and Strategies. 6. Sustainable Pathways for our Cities and Regions. 7. Conclusions. Appendix 1. List of Interviewees. Index.

About the author

Professor Barbara Norman PhD is the Foundation Chair of Urban and Regional Planning and Director of Canberra Urban and Regional Futures (CURF) at the University of Canberra. Professor Norman is Chair of the ACT Climate Change Council and a Life Fellow and past national president of the Planning Institute of Australia.

Summary

This book builds on recent publications on cities and climate change and looks at the ways in which current planning approaches will need to be adapted to embrace concepts including green growth, planetary boundaries, healthy cities and longer-term sustainability.

Additional text

"This text takes a global perspective, seeking to address the need to work within the limits of the planet, whilst also addressing the needs of those living in cities…I finished reading Norman’s book on my return to my home city of Glasgow, soon to be host to the COP26 summit where world leaders will congregate to report on their progress to the Paris Accord of 2015 and consider the next of their responses to climate change. It would be good if on their travels from across the globe, many of them and their advisors also take the time to read this book." – Robert Rogerson, Institute for Future Cities, University of Strathclyde, UK

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Norman, Norman Barbara
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9780367374419
• ISBN: 978-0-367-37441-9
• No. of pages: 212
• Series: Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development, Climate Change, NATURE / Ecology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Environmental Economics, City & town planning - architectural aspects, Urban & municipal planning, Civil engineering, surveying & building, Urban communities, Development Studies, Urban and municipal planning and policy, City and town planning: architectural aspects, Civil engineering, surveying and building