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List of figure.. List of tables.. Contributors.. Acknowledgments.. Introduction.. Part I Pathways by which urbanization impacts environmental systems and become drivers of global environmental change.. 1 Urbanization, economic growth and sustainability.. 2 Urbanization, food consumption and the environment.. 3 Urbanization and impacts on agricultural land in China.. 4 Urban land use in the global context.. 5 Contemporary urbanization in India.. 6 Resource use for the construction and operation of built environments.. 7 Harnessing urban water demand: lessons from North America.. 8 Urbanization, energy use and greenhouse gas emissions.. 9 Suburban landscapes and lifestyles, globalization and exporting the American dream.. 10 Urbanization, habitat loss and biodiversity decline: solution pathways to break the cycle.. 11 Urban precipitation: a global perspective.. 12 Effects of urbanization on local and regional climate.. 13 Urban nutrient cycling.. Part II Impacts of global environmental change on urban systems and urbanization processes.. 14 A broader framing of ecosystem services in cities: benefits and challenges of built, natural or hybrid system function.. 15 Urbanization, vulnerability and risk.. 16 Extreme events and their impacts on urban areas.. 17 Water supply and urban water availability.. 18 Urban water quality.. 19 Urban greening, human health and well-being.. 20 Food price volatility and urban food insecurity.. 21 Urbanization and global environmental change: from a gender and equity perspective.. Part III Urban responses to global environmental change.. 22 Environmental justice and transitions to a sustainable urban future.. 23 Global patterns of adaptation planning: results from a global survey.. 24 Adaptation to climate change in rapidly growing cities.. 25 Spatial planning: an integrative approach to climate change response.. 26 Climate change mitigation in high-income cities.. 27 Climate change mitigation in medium-sized, low-income cities.. 28 Urban and peri-urban agriculture: cultivating urban climate resilience.. 29 Integrating biodiversity and ecosystem services into urban planning and conservation.. 30 The potential of the green economy and urban greening for addressing urban environmental change.. 31 Positive externalities in the urban boundary: the case of industrial symbiosis.. 32 Resilient urban infrastructure for adapting to extreme environmental disruptions.. 33 Soft and hard infrastructure co-production and lock-in: the challenges for a post-carbon city.. Part IV Urbanization, global change and sustainability: critical emerging integrative research.. 34 Adaptation, transformation and transition: approaches to the sustainability challenge.. 35 City action for global environmental change: assessment and case study of Durban, South Africa.. 36 Climate change mitigation in rapidly developing cities.. Conclusion: the road ahead for urbanization and sustainability research.. Index

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the interactions and feedbacks between urbanization and global environmental change. A key focus is the examination of how urbanization influences global environmental change, and how global environmental change in turn influences urbanization processes. It has four thematic foci: Theme 1 addresses the pathways through which urbanization drives global environmental change. Theme 2 addresses the pathways through which global environmental change affects the urban system. Theme 3 addresses the interactions and responses within the urban system in response to global environmental change. Theme 4 centers on critical emerging research. Inglés