Sustainability and resilience for transformation in the urban century

April 9, 2019 Siddhant Goyal

Date of Publication: April 9, 2019

Author: Thomas Elmqvist, Erik Andersson, Carl Folke

Summary:

Urban systems must adapt to climatic and other global change. This Perspective uses urban systems to argue that sustainability and resilience are complementary but not interchangeable and that, in some cases, resilience can even render cities unsustainable.

Link to Full Reading:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-019-0250-1