Planetary stewardship in an urbanizing world: Beyond city limits

Ambio

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 787-794

  Seitzinger, Sybil P ^a   Svedin, Uno ^b   Crumley, Carole L ^c,d   Steffen, Will ^b,e   Abdullah, Saiful Arif ^f   Alfsen, Christine ^a   Broadgate, Wendy J ^g   Biermann, Frank ^h   Bondre, Ninad R ^a   Dearing, John A ^b   Deutsch, Lisa ⁱ   Dhakal, Shobhakar ^b   Elmqvist, Thomas ^j   Farahbakhshazad, Neda ^a   Gaffney, Owen ^a   Haberl, Helmut ^k   Lavorel, Sandra ^l   Mbow, Cheikh ^m   McMichael, Anthony J ⁿ   DeMorais, Joao M F ^a,b   Olsson, Per ^o   Pinho, Patricia Fernanda ^p   Seto, Karen C ^q   Sinclair, Paul ^c   Smith, Mark Stafford ^r   Sugar, Lorraine ^s   more..

^a ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM RESILIENCE CENTRE   (Sweden)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^e AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^g Chemin du Vier ^*  (France)

^h INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^j ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

^k UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

^l UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

^m UNIVERSITÉ CHEIKH ANTA DIOP   (Senegal)

ⁿ The Australian National University   (Australia)

^o Styrelsen for Internationellt Utvecklingssamarbete   (Sweden)

^p INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^q Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

^r CSIRO   (Australia)

^s WORLD BANK GROUP   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Global; Governance; Planetary stewardship; Resources; Rural; Sustainability; Urban

Indexed keywords

GOVERNANCE APPROACH; NATURAL RESOURCE; RESOURCE USE; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; URBAN AREA; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN POLICY; URBAN POPULATION; URBANIZATION;

ASTRONOMY; REVIEW; URBANIZATION;

PLANETS; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84872065262     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13280-012-0353-7     Document Type: Review

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