Urban resilience and sustainability - URBES Factsheet #5

This factsheet explains the importance of understanding the relationship between people and nature in urban planning and decision making in order to achieve urban resilience and sustainability.

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Advantages

Highlights examples of how nature contributes to urban resilience and sustainability
Offers guidance to urban planners for formulating policies and programmes that build resilience and promote sustainable development

Links

PDF download link: "Urban resilience and sustainability, two sides of the same coin?"
'URBES for cities and biodiversity' - IUCN webpage

Contact details

Thomas Elmqvist
Theme leader, Urban social-ecological systems and globalization
Stockholm Resilience Centre

thomas.elmqvist@su.se

Urban resilience and sustainability, two sides of the same coin?

Urban resilience and sustainability - URBES Factsheet #5

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