Sustainability and resilience for transformation in the urban century

Nature Sustainability

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2019, Pages 267-273

  Elmqvist, Thomas ^a   Andersson, Erik ^a,b   Frantzeskaki, Niki ^c   McPhearson, Timon ^a,d,e   Olsson, Per ^a   Gaffney, Owen ^a   Takeuchi, Kazuhiko ^f,g   Folke, Carl ^a,h  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^e CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^g INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL STRATEGIES   (Japan)

^h ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE GASES;

GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; LOCAL POLICIES; NARROW DEFINITIONS; TRANSFORMATION PROCESS; URBAN POLICY; URBAN RESILIENCE; URBAN SUSTAINABILITY;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 85064080082     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23989629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41893-019-0250-1     Document Type: Article

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