Overview
Brings together expert knowledge on urban and regional development
Explores the growing movement towards viewing cities and regions as complex and sociotechnical
1,500,000 words over 300 entries provide comprehensive coverage
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About this book
While urban settlements are the drivers of the global economy and centres of learning, culture, and innovation and nations rely on competitive dynamic regions for their economic, social, and environmental objectives, urban centres and regions face a myriad of challenges that impact the ways in which people live and work, create wealth, and interact and connect with places. Rapid urbanisation is resulting in urban sprawl, rising emissions, urban poverty and high unemployment rates, housing affordability issues, lack of urban investment, low urban financial and governance capacities, rising inequality and urban crimes, environmental degradation, increasing vulnerability to natural disasters and so forth. At the regional level, low employment, low wage growth, scarce financial resources, climate change, waste and pollution, and rising urban peri-urban competition etc. are impacting the ability of regions to meet socio-economic development goals while protecting biodiversity. The response to these challenges has typically been the application of inadequate or piecemeal solutions, often as a result of fragmented decision-making and competing priorities, with numerous economic, environmental, and social consequences.
In response, there is a growing movement towards viewing cities and regions as complex and sociotechnical in nature with people and communities interacting with one another and with objects, such as roads, buildings, transport links etc., within a range of urban and regional settings or contexts.
This comprehensive MRW will provide readers with expert interdisciplinary knowledge on how urban centres and regions in locations of varying climates, lifestyles, income levels, and stages development are creating synergies and reducing trade-offs in the development of resilient, resource-efficient, environmentally friendly, liveable, socially equitable, integrated, and technology-enabled centres and regions.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Robert C. Brears is an international sectoral expert on water for the UN’s Green Climate Fund and the World Bank. He is the Editor in Chief of the Palgrave Handbook of Climate Resilient Societies and the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures. He is the author of 11 books, including the Palgrave Macmillan titles The Green Economy and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus, Blue and Green Cities: The Role of Blue-Green Infrastructure in Managing Urban Water Resources, Natural Resource Management and the Circular Economy, Developing the Circular Water Economy, Developing the Blue Economy, and Financing Nature-based Solutions. He is the founder of Our Future Water, which has knowledge partnerships with World Bank, World Meteorological Organization, and UNEP initiatives.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures
Editors: Robert C. Brears
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87745-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Reference Module Physical and Materials Science, Reference Module Earth and Environmental Sciences
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-87744-6Published: 14 December 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-87745-3Published: 13 January 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXIX, 2312
Number of Illustrations: 62 b/w illustrations, 347 illustrations in colour
Topics: Human Geography, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Urban Studies/Sociology, Cities, Countries, Regions