Transitioning to Sustainability: The Challenge of Developing Sustainable Urban Systems
The National Academies' Second Sustainability R&D Forum
The National Academy of Sciences
2100 C Street NW, Lecture Room
Washington, D.C.
September 23, 2009
The National Academies' Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability hosted a forum on September 23, 2009 to foster discussion of current and planned R&D
activities on issues of sustainability in urban systems. More than half of the world's
population now lives in urban areas and the share of urban residents is expected to grow.
Cities are already strained in their capacities to provide healthy, safe, and affordable
environments for living and working. The challenge is thus to develop more
environmentally sustainable urban systems that also provide for sustainable economic
growth.
Agenda
Transitioning to Sustainability: The Challenge of Developing Sustainable Urban Systems
Presentations
Panel: Developing Livable Urban Areas
Sustainable Cities and Public Health (4.5 MB)
Ecosystem Services in Urban Areas (2.1 MB)
Panel: Resilience and Adaptation
Risk Communication and Decision-Making for Local Governments (3.0 MB)
Toward Sustainable Urban Systems: Natural Hazards, Vulnerability, and Resiliency (2.0 MB)
Resilience and Adaptation Considerations for Natural Systems in an Urban Context (482 KB)
Panel: Models, Metrics, and Future Scenarios
City Models, Metrics, and Future Scenarios: Basis for an Urban Genome Project? (7.0 MB)
Models, Metrics, Scenarios (4.1 MB)
An Approach to Modeling, Metrics, and Future Scenarios for Urban Systems Using Remote Sensing: A Case Study of Atlanta, GA (6.4 MB)
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