{"id":4830,"date":"2010-04-30T15:37:36","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T19:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/?page_id=4830"},"modified":"2013-11-26T15:30:02","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T20:30:02","slug":"sdi-004-cities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/sdi-004-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable Development Insights, No. 4, May 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"UNsdkp004cover\"<\/a>The Role of Cities in Sustainable Development
\nBy David Satterthwaite
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May 2010 (8 pages)
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This brief will argue that with the right innovation and incentives in place, cities can allow high living standards to be combined with resource consumption that is much lower than the norm in most cities today. This is achieved not with an over-extended optimism on what new technologies can bring but through a wider-application of what already has been shown to work by the more innovative and accountable city and municipal governments and their partnerships with civil society groups.<\/p>\n

Sustainable Development Insights<\/em> is a series of short policy essays supporting the\u00a0 Sustainable Development Knowledge Partnership <\/a><\/em>(SDKP)<\/a> and edited by Boston University\u2019s Frederick S. Pardee Center for the study of the Longer-Range Future. The series seeks to promote a broad interdisciplinary dialogue on how to accelerate sustainable development at all levels.<\/p>\n

David Satterthwaite<\/strong> is a Senior Fellow at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and Editor of the international journal Environment and Urbanization. He was a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (1998-2007) and recipient of the 2004 Volvo Environment Prize. He has written and edited several books on sustainable cities, most recently Adapting Cities to Climate Change (co-editor with Jane Bicknell and DAvid Dodman), Earthscan, 2009.
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