Advancing urbanization

Maddox, David and Nagendra, Harini and Elmqvist, Thomas and Russ, Alex (2017) Advancing urbanization. In: Urban Environmental Education Review. Cornell University Press, pp. 13-20. ISBN 9781501712791

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Abstract

This chapter explains the importance of telling the story of “advancing urbanization”—both the global acceleration of urbanization and the promise offered by urbanization—for urban environmental education. It argues that cities—their design and how we live in them—will be key in our struggle for sustainability, indeed our future. As cities grow, as they are newly created, and as more and more people choose or require them as places to live, our decisions about urban design and city building will determine the outcomes of long-term challenges related to resilience, sustainability, livability, and justice. Rather than being the essential cause of the global environmental dangers we face, cities will be key to success in overcoming these dangers. The chapter examines the role of environmental education in fostering public engagement through clarifying and transmitting the challenges, values, actions, and methods for achieving sustainable, resilient, livable, and just cities.

Item Type:	Book Section
Authors:	Maddox, David and Nagendra, Harini and Elmqvist, Thomas and Russ, Alex
Editors:	Editors Email ORCID Russ, Alex UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Krasny, Marianne E. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
Document Language:	Language English
Subjects:	Social sciences > Sociology & anthropology > Communities > Planning and development Social sciences > Sociology & anthropology > Communities > Planning and development > Development > Urban development Social sciences > Law > Labor, social, education & cultural law > Miscellaneous social problems and services > Environmental protection Social sciences > Education > Science education
Divisions:	Azim Premji University - Bengaluru > School of Development
Full Text Status:	None
URI:	http://publications.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/id/eprint/7287
Publisher URL:	https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell%2F9781501705823.00...

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