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Transforming Built Environments: Towards Carbon Neutral and Blue-Green Cities
- Source :
- Sustainability, Vol 12, Iss 4745, p 4745 (2020), Sustainability, Volume 12, Issue 11
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- MDPI AG, 2020.
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Abstract
- In the 21st century, the creation of built environments that are carbon neutral and water sensitive is critical for addressing sustainable urban development challenges. Both require transformative change: Decarbonisation to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and incorporation of green-blue water sensitive solutions to adapt to climate change impacts. Transition pathways in both arenas involve combinations of new technology, innovative urban design, enabling policies and regulations, new processes for planning and managing urban development, and demand-side changes in consumer attitudes and practices for urban living related to energy and water use. In this paper, we present new knowledge, concepts and frameworks developed for application in Australia, as well as internationally, through research by the national Cooperative Research Centres for Low Carbon Living (CRCLCL) and Water Sensitive Cities (CRCWSC) between 2012 and 2020. These findings and outputs illustrate common features of the research strategies and initiatives that were central to the activities of the CRCs, and highlight promising directions for collaborative interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research that drives urban sustainability transformations towards carbon neutral and blue-green cities.
- Subjects :
- 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
sustainable urban development
urban transitions
Geography, Planning and Development
Climate change
decarbonisation
TJ807-830
010501 environmental sciences
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
TD194-195
01 natural sciences
Renewable energy sources
Urban planning
liveable cities
GE1-350
Blue-Green Cities
Environmental planning
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Environmental effects of industries and plants
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Urban design
water sensitive cities
Environmental sciences
Transformative learning
climate change
Carbon neutrality
Greenhouse gas
Business
Water use
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20711050
- Volume :
- 12
- Issue :
- 4745
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Sustainability
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....dd72f005e2ff38fee222a1e230b6a9c9