This chapter argues that the discussion of urban sustainability is in urgent need of new understanding of how ecosystem services are generated in places where human and non-human stakeholders interact within the urban landscape. More than half of the world’s population currently lives in urban areas, and the rate of urbanisation is estimated to increase rapidly in the next three decades ( Uni…
Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns); Labor Economics; Human Geography; Regional Development
Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law; US Politics; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History; Electoral Politics; Mathematics in the Humanities and Social Sciences
climate change; renewable energy; sustainable development; water; water-energy-carbon nexus
Entrepreneurship; Organization
Agriculture; Agricultural Economics; Geography, general; Innovation/Technology Management
Sustainable Development
The objective of this report is to examine the extent to which countries in Latin America and the Caribbean participate in global value chains and what are the drivers of such participation. Production processes have been increasingly fragmented worldwide. For example, the production of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner involves 43 suppliers located in 135 locations around the globe. There are many exa…
Manufacturing, Machines, Tools; Sustainable Development; Energy Efficiency; Production
Oceanography; Biogeosciences; Geochemistry