Home Transforming cities for sustainability: Facts and Figures
 

Keywords :   


Transforming cities for sustainability: Facts and Figures

2014-11-19 11:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

SciDevNet: Kate Hawley examines how urban areas are evolving to be sustainable -- their challenges, trends and solutions. Already, 54 per cent of the world's population lives in urban regions, and projections suggest this will keep increasing until at least 2050. [1] The shift from a rural- to an urban-dominant globe signals more strongly than ever the need to transform how cities develop. Architects, engineers, urban planners, civil society and policy makers face the challenges of creating sustainable,...

Tags: cities figures facts sustainability

Category:Electronics and Electrical

Latest from this category

All news

»
01.11Atlantic Tropical Weather Outlook
01.11Eastern North Pacific Tropical Weather Outlook
01.11Boeing makes 38% pay rise offer in bid to end strike
01.11The house paints that promise much more than colour
01.11Eastern North Pacific Tropical Weather Outlook
01.11Atlantic Tropical Weather Outlook
01.11Technology adoption: What's on the ag tech horizon for 2025
01.11Technology adoption: What's on the ag tech horizon for 2025
More »