Learning from Taiyuan: Chinese cities as urban sustainability laboratories

Nature-Based Solutions Accelerating Urban Sustainability Transitions in Cities: Lessons from Dresden, Genk and Stockholm Cities

Nature based solutions are amongst other practices that transition initiatives work with when intervening in their place and change its fabric. Focusing on the actors establishing, driving and scaling these solutions in and across cities, we come to evince that nature-based solutions have transformative social impact since they mediate new social relations and new social configurations contribu...

Green Cities, the Search for Sustainability, and Urban Environmental History

From urbanization to urban clusters: impacts on urban transportation in Chinese cities

In China, rapid economic growth and increasing foreign direct investment (FDI) is the driving force for urbanization, and transformation of urban spatial structures and transportation. Frequent interactive economic activities among the neighboring cities reinforce the already spatially clustered cities. In this paper we tried to extract the key urban transportation characteristics of seventy ma...

Changing household behaviours: learning for urban sustainability

This paper provides some reflections on lessons learned from the first five years of the Sustainable Households Programme in New Zealand. This programme is a community education initiative to support the introduction of more sustainable actions in New Zealand households. The paper begins by describing the Programme's development, and then examines the underlying learning theory which contribute...

Sustainability for shrinking cities

Shrinking cities are widespread throughout the world despite the rapidly increasing global urban population. These cities are attempting to transition to sustainable trajectories to improve the health and well-being of urban residents, to build their capacity to adapt to changing conditions and to cope with major events. The dynamics of shrinking cities are different than the dynamics of growin...