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View article: Future Urban Sustainability: Lessons Learnt From the SDGs and Perspectives for a Post‐2030 Agenda
Future Urban Sustainability: Lessons Learnt From the SDGs and Perspectives for a Post‐2030 Agenda Open
Given the current challenges of global environmental change and other pressing issues, cities—along with other urban actors—must intensify and expand their efforts to operate within planetary boundaries and advance sustainability agendas. …
View article: Scoping article: research frontiers on the governance of the Sustainable Development Goals
Scoping article: research frontiers on the governance of the Sustainable Development Goals Open
Non-Technical Summary This article takes stock of the 2030 Agenda and focuses on five governance areas. In a nutshell, we see a quite patchy and often primarily symbolic uptake of the global goals. Although some studies highlight individua…
View article: A WEB APP TO GENERATE AND DISSEMINATE NEW KNOWLEDGE ON URBAN GREEN SPACE QUALITIES AND THEIR ACCESSIBILITY
A WEB APP TO GENERATE AND DISSEMINATE NEW KNOWLEDGE ON URBAN GREEN SPACE QUALITIES AND THEIR ACCESSIBILITY Open
Urban green spaces (UGSs) can provide important ecosystem services for citizens and their well-being. To make use of these services according to UGS user demands, urban residents, tourists, and city administrations should know where UGSs a…
View article: Sensitivity analysis in multi-criteria evaluation of the suitability of urban green spaces for recreational activities
Sensitivity analysis in multi-criteria evaluation of the suitability of urban green spaces for recreational activities Open
Urban green spaces can have potential positive impacts on climate, biodiversity, health, and generally on the quality of life for urban residents and are of great importance for pursuing recreational activities. People as urban green space…
View article: Conceptualizing Interactions between SDGs and Urban Sustainability Transformations in Covid-19 Times
Conceptualizing Interactions between SDGs and Urban Sustainability Transformations in Covid-19 Times Open
Given the potential of cities to contribute to a more sustainable world as framed by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the UN 2030 Development Agenda, this article focuses on Urban Sustainability Transformations. We take a closer…
View article: What to do in, and what to expect from, urban green spaces – Indicator-based approach to assess cultural ecosystem services
What to do in, and what to expect from, urban green spaces – Indicator-based approach to assess cultural ecosystem services Open
Literature on urban ecosystem services (UESS) is vast, particularly on cultural ecosystem services. However, due to a lack of knowledge on individual urban green spaces on the site level, further research on enhanced methods is needed to u…
View article: How to support German cities in implementing the SDGs: learning from and about co-design
How to support German cities in implementing the SDGs: learning from and about co-design Open
Non-technical summary Scientists often argue that today's efforts towards sustainability in cities call for a strong exchange on knowledge with non-scientific actors. But do urban practitioners think the same way? Do they see the need for …
View article: Urban Sustainability Strategies Guided by the SDGs—A Tale of Four Cities
Urban Sustainability Strategies Guided by the SDGs—A Tale of Four Cities Open
The United Nations (UN) 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, signed in 2015 and backed-up with its seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), mentions cities as key players for evolving actively towards more sustainability. This under…
View article: How to Contextualize SDG 11? Looking at Indicators for Sustainable Urban Development in Germany
How to Contextualize SDG 11? Looking at Indicators for Sustainable Urban Development in Germany Open
Agenda 2030 pursues a universal approach and identifies countries in the Global South and in the Global North that are in need of transformation toward sustainability. Therefore, countries of the Global North such as Germany have signed th…
View article: A Transformative Turn towards Sustainability in the Context of Urban-Related Studies? A Systematic Review from 1957 to 2016
A Transformative Turn towards Sustainability in the Context of Urban-Related Studies? A Systematic Review from 1957 to 2016 Open
This article evaluates if the increasing use of the term “urban transformations” in academic research and the widely acknowledged importance of cities in sustainability transformations has led to a transformative turn towards sustainabilit…
View article: How to respond to climate change at the local level: A guideline for Turkish cities
How to respond to climate change at the local level: A guideline for Turkish cities Open
The overall aim of this project was threefold. By organizing workshops at the science-policy interface, the project wanted to: 1. Raise awareness for climate change in Turkish cities and the necessity to develop response action at the loca…
View article: Urban vulnerability and the contribution of socio-environmental fragmentation
Urban vulnerability and the contribution of socio-environmental fragmentation Open
As ongoing parallel processes, urbanization and climate change call for overarching context-specific responses that tackle the complex challenges involved and include a comprehensive data base to identify the most pressing action needs. We…
View article: Approaching urban vulnerability to climate change induced risks in socio-environmentally fragmented areas: The case of Santiago de Chile
Approaching urban vulnerability to climate change induced risks in socio-environmentally fragmented areas: The case of Santiago de Chile Open
[Foreword ...] The present report contains the results of the initial working steps of the CLAVE project which is a) the theoretical combination of fragmentation and vulnerability, and b) the development of a methodology for assessing soci…