Bai, X., Surveyer, A., Elmqvist, T., Gatzweiler, F.W., Güneralp, B., Parnell, S., Prieur-Richard, A-H., Shrivastava, P., Siri J.G., Stafford-Smith, M., Toussaint, J-P., and Webb, R. 2016. Defining and advancing a systems approach for sustainable cities. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 2016, 23:69–78, DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2016.11.010
The sustainable development of cities is increasingly recognized as crucial to meeting collectively agreed sustainability goals at local, regional and global scales, and more broadly to securing human well-being worldwide. The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) include a goal on cities (Goal 11), with most other goals and targets have urban applications and multi scalar implications for their implementation. Further, the ...