ABSTRACT
This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the interactions and feedbacks between urbanization and global environmental change. A key focus is the examination of how urbanization influences global environmental change, and how global environmental change in turn influences urbanization processes. It has four thematic foci: Theme 1 addresses the pathways through which urbanization drives global environmental change. Theme 2 addresses the pathways through which global environmental change affects the urban system. Theme 3 addresses the interactions and responses within the urban system in response to global environmental change. Theme 4 centers on critical emerging research.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|194 pages
Pathways by which urbanization impacts environmental systems and become drivers of global environmental change
chapter 10|13 pages
Urbanization, habitat loss and biodiversity decline
part II|124 pages
Impacts of global environmental change on urban systems and urbanization processes
chapter 14|10 pages
A broader framing of ecosystem services in cities
chapter 21|15 pages
Urbanization and global environmental change
part III|199 pages
Urban responses to global environmental change
chapter 33|11 pages
Soft and hard infrastructure co-production and lock-in
part IV|51 pages
Urbanization, global change and sustainability