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Creating regenerative cities
\"Large modern cities have effectively declared their independence from nature. But while they take up only three to four percent of the world's land surface, their ecological footprints cover the entire globe. With current methods of resources use, cities are undermining the ecological basis of their own existence. To meet the aspirations of city people in developing as well as developed countries, bold new initiatives are needed. Mere 'sustainable development' is not enough. The planning of new cities, as well as the retrofit of existing cities, needs to undergo a profound paradigm shift. Instead of simply using resources more sustainably, cities need to take responsibility for their use of resources, making 'regenerative development' into an organising principle. We need to move away from linear systems of resource use, and assure that cities operate as circular systems. Creating Regenerative Cities is a concise, solution-oriented manual for creating regenerative urbanisation. In our urbanising world a wide range of technical, management and policy solutions already exist, but implementation has been too slow and too little, in large part because the kinds of holistic approaches needed are still unfamiliar to fragmented and process driven urban policy making and governance. Herbert Girardet's 30 year experience as an ecologist, thinker and consultant to cities around the world has created this unique combination of tried and tested best practices and policies with the fundamental shift needed in the way we think about our cities\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Surviving the Century
'The combined analysis presented here of why current arrangements are failing the future and clear insights of the way to go, offer us hope.'
Mary Robinson, President of Realising Rights, Ethical Globalisation Initiative, and former President of Ireland and United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Environmental and human catastrophe looms ever larger for planet Earth. Powerful action is required now to turn a deepening global crisis into an unprecedented opportunity for positive change. This book shows how a dramatic transformation of how humans relate to the Earth, and to one another, can be achieved.
Surviving the Century is the first major publication by the World Future Council (WFC), a new international voice for future generations. Reflecting the positive mission of the WFC, each chapter addresses a different critical issue in a systematic and constructive way, describing and analysing the topic before indicating real solutions. The eight main issues covered are: countering climate chaos, renewable energy policy, local farming systems, rainforests and climate change, creating sustainable cities, cradle to cradle production systems, a radical vision for trade and creating a living democracy.
Surviving the Century is a must-have primer and action plan for all leaders in government, business and NGOs, and for all who want to be part of the historic opportunity to provide solutions to the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced.
Published with the World Future Council.
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Creating Regenerative Cities
A key fact is that urban areas are the world's economic powerhouses, in which 80 per cent of global GDP is being produced: Urban development and the global quest for economic growth are intimately linked. Urban economies in developing cities have also helped reduce the poverty suffered by hundreds of millions of people. But there is a downside: the aggregated environmental impacts of an urbanising humanity are a great cause for concern and they are largely ignored by urban planners and decision makers. If you want an urban world you need to assure that cities become environmentally benign organisms. In the author's view that means not just creating sustainable cities, but regenerative cities. Regenerative development is about a proactive relationship between humanity and the world's ecosystems, and about nurturing nature's dynamism and abundance whilst drawing on its income. Cities need to help regenerate soils, forests and watercourses that they depend on, rather than just accepting that they are \"sustained\" in a degraded condition.
Journal Article
Creating Sustainable and Liveable Cities
The battle for sustainable development - for delivering a more environmentally stable, just and healthier world - is going to be largely won and lost in our cities.
Book Chapter
Future - What Future?
This is the first major book to be published by the World Future Council (WFC). As a new, international lobby for future generations, the WFC will, above all else, challenge decision makers everywhere to reflect on the huge costs of many of their decisions that future generations will be forced to pay. What is preventing us from adopting longer-term thinking? Why are we not implementing solutions to many of the world's major problems that are so clearly available to us? Why do we seem incapable of closing the yawning action gaps that separate humanity from a sustainable and peaceful future?
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Greening Urban Society
City growth is changing the condition of humanity and the face of the Earth. In one century, global urban populations will have expanded from 15 to 50 per cent, and this figure will increase further in the coming decades. At present, half of humanity live and work in cities, while the other half depend increasingly on cities and towns for their economic survival. In most developed countries over 70 per cent now live in cities.
Book Chapter
John Seymour
John Seymour, who has died aged 90, was best known as the author of The Complete Book Of Self Sufficiency, in which he advocated a lifestyle lived as close to nature as possible. First published in 1976, it...
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