Integrative assessment of climate change for fast-growing urban areas: Measurement and recommendations for future research.

ABSTRACT: Over the 20th century, urbanization has substantially shaped the surface of Earth. With population rapidly shifting from rural locations towards the cities, urban areas have dramatically expanded on a global scale and represent crystallization points of social, cultural and economic assets and activities. This trend is estimated to persist for the next decades, and particularly the developing countries are expected to face rapid urban growth. The management of this growth will require good governance strategies and planning. By threatening the livelihoods, assets and health as foundations of human activities, another major global change contributor, climate change, became an equally important concern of stakeholders. Based on the climate trends observed over the 20th century, and a spatial

SUBMITTER: Scheuer S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5726725 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature