Prioritizing urban sustainability solutions: Coordinated approaches must incorporate scale-dependent built environment induced effects

• Main Authors: GEORGESCU, Matei, CHOW, Winston T. L., WANG, Z. H., BRAZEL, Anthony J., TRAPIDO-LURIE, Barbara, ROTH, M., BENSON, Valeria
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• Subjects: urban; sustainability; adaptation; mitigation; climate; Urban Studies and Planning
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3059; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4316/viewcontent/Prioritizing_urban_sustainability_solutions__coordinated_approaches_must_incorporate_scale_dependent_built_environment_induced_effects.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Because of a projected surge of several billion urban inhabitants by mid-century, a rising urgency exists to advance local and strategically deployed measures intended to ameliorate negative consequences on urban climate (e.g., heat stress, poor air quality, energy/water availability). Here we highl...