Towards Sustainable Cities: Extending Resilience with Insights from Vulnerability and Transition Theory

Sustainable, healthy cities: making the most of the urban transition

The world is undergoing a massive urban transition, which is now both the greatest driver of global environmental change and the most significant influence on human health. Cities offer real opportunities for improving health, but managed poorly, they can also create or reinforce significant health deficits while putting severe stresses on the natural systems which support human civilization. M...

Forests and Sustainable Cities

Sustainable Trees for Sustainable Cities

The idea of sustainable cities is linked to an older concept of sustainable plant communities. The theoretical basis for both is a closed system where everything is continuously recycled. Natural resources are renewed rather than depleted. In undisturbed natural areas a kind of sustainability is achieved through the natural cycles of the biosphere. However, this kind of sustainability for trees...

The Long Road towards Sustainable Cities: the Dutch Case

Towards Transition Theory

1. Theory is technology. [This thesis] 2. Societal transitions can be considered concatenations of patterns, emerging under certain conditions, forming transition paths. [This thesis] 3. The problem of temporal demarcation, that is, attributing a societal transition with a beginning and an end, can be avoided with an analysis in terms of patterns instead of one overall process. [This thesis] 4....