Cities :

Endangered Plants ◽

Threatened Plants ◽

Biodiversity Crisis ◽

Native Flora ◽

Urban Greenspace ◽

Agreed Framework ◽

Development Goals ◽

Now that more than half of humanity lives in cities, urban greenspace and Urban Green Infrastructure (UGI) have never been more important. Although the health benefits and ecosystem services provided by urban greenspace are now widely appreciated, the potential for cities to provide refuges for native flora in general and threatened plants in particular, is not. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals provide an internationally agreed framework for tackling the world’s greatest challenges including the biodiversity crisis, climate change and the need to make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable. This article explores the opportunity provided by these Global Goals for botanic garden horticulture to make cities havens for endangered plants and better places for people to live in. It identifies botanic gardens as the only organisations with the potential to overcome the barriers to conservation in the city.

Urban equality and the SDGs: three provocations for a relational agenda

International Development Planning Review ◽

10.3828/idpr.2021.6 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (0) ◽

pp. 1-20

Author(s):

Stephanie Butcher

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

Urban Poor ◽

Global South ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

Significant Potential ◽

Development Goals ◽

Equitable Outcomes ◽

We live in an increasingly urban, increasingly unequal world. This is nowhere more evident than in cities of the global South, where many residents face deep injustices in their ability to access vital services, participate in decision-making or to have their rights recognised as citizens. In this regard, the rallying cry of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to ‘leave no one behind’ offers significant potential to guide urbanisation processes towards more equitable outcomes, particularly for the urban poor. Yet the SDGs have also faced a series of criticisms which have highlighted the gaps and silences in moving towards a transformative agenda. This article explores the potentials of adopting a relational lens to read the SDGs, as a mechanism to navigate these internal contradictions and critiques and build pathways to urban equality. In particular, it offers three questions if we want to place urban equality at the heart of the agenda: who owns the city; who produces knowledge about the city; and who is visible in the city? Drawing from the practices of organised groups of the urban poor, this article outlines the key lessons for orienting this agenda towards the relational and transformative aims of urban equality.

Localizing the Sustainable Development Goals Through the Lens of Urban Resilience: Lessons and Learnings from 100 Resilient Cities and Cape Town

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12020550 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 550 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Sylvia Croese ◽

Cayley Green ◽

Gareth Morgan

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Rockefeller Foundation ◽

Cape Town ◽

Global Development ◽

Urban Resilience ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

Development Goals ◽

Paris Climate Agreement ◽

Urban resilience is increasingly seen as essential to managing the risks and challenges arising in a globally changing, connected, and urbanized world. Hence, cities are central to achieving a range of global development policy commitments adopted over the past few years, ranging from the Paris Climate Agreement to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, knowledge of the ways in which cities are going about implementing resilience or of how such efforts can practically contribute to the implementation of global agendas is still limited. This paper discusses the experience of cities that were members of the 100 Resilient Cities (100RC) network, an entity pioneered by The Rockefeller Foundation. It reviews the resilience strategies developed by 100RC members to show that 100RC cities are increasingly aligning their resilience work to global development policies such as the SDGs. It then draws on the case of the city of Cape Town in South Africa to illustrate the process of developing a resilience strategy through 100RC tools and methodologies including the City Resilience Framework (CRF) and City Resilience Index (CRI) and its alignment to the SDGs and reflects on lessons and learnings of Cape Town’s experience for the global city network-policy nexus post-2015.

City Profile: Manila, Philippines

Environment and Urbanization Asia ◽

10.1177/0975425319859149 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 331-358

Author(s):

Mark Anthony M. Gamboa ◽

Ryan Randle B. Rivera ◽

Mario R. Delos Reyes

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Best Practices ◽

Global Scale ◽

The Philippines ◽

Government Agencies ◽

Significant Implication ◽

Development Goals ◽

Urban Conditions ◽

Manila is a primate city with national and international significance. Unlike any other city in the Philippines, Manila has the mandate of serving not just its local constituents, but also a clientele of national and even global scale. Recognizing that the localization of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at sub-national levels is a key element in meeting the targets by 2030, it is important to look at how cities have been confronting local challenges relating to the development goals. Focusing on SDGs 3, 4 and 11, this city profile shows that Manila has performed reasonably well against key national and regional benchmarks on health, education and urban sustainability. However, as the city continues to lag behind many of its regional counterparts, key reforms must be undertaken in the areas of local policymaking, targeting of resources, scale of public participation and engagement of national government agencies. Heading into the first four years of the SDGs, the aim of this profile is to recognize and contextualize Manila’s existing urban conditions, best practices and pressing challenges—which would all have a significant implication on how Manila stands to attain SDGs 3, 4 and 11.

Access or Accessibility? A Critique of the Urban Transport SDG Indicator

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information ◽

10.3390/ijgi8020067 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 67 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Mark Brussel ◽

Mark Zuidgeest ◽

Karin Pfeffer ◽

Martin van Maarseveen

Keyword(s):

Transport System ◽

Urban Transportation ◽

Academic Community ◽

Urban Transport ◽

Paradigm Shifts ◽

Substantial Variation ◽

Urban Sector ◽

Development Goals ◽

Progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is being evaluated through the use of indicators. Despite the importance of these indicators, the academic community has done little in terms of a critical reflection on their choice, relevance, framing and operationalization. This holds for many SDG domains, also for the urban sector domain of target 11. To partially address this void, we aim to critically review the UN methodology for the urban access indicator, SDG indicator 11.2. In discussing its conceptual framing against the background of paradigm shifts in transportation planning, we argue that this indicator has a number of shortcomings. The most important one is that it is supply oriented and measures access to transportation infrastructure, rather than accessibility to activity locations. As an alternative, we develop two accessibility indicators that show substantial variation in accessibility across geographical areas. We implement all indicators for the city of Bogotá in Colombia, using a geo-information based approach. Our results show that SDG indicator 11.2 fails to represent the transport reality well. Its supply oriented focus neglects transport demand, oversimplifies the transport system and hides existing inequalities. Moreover, it does not provide useful evidence for targeting new interventions. The proposed accessibility indicators provide a more diverse, complete and realistic picture of the performance of the transport system. These indicators also capture the large spatial and socio-economic inequalities and can help to target improvements in urban transportation.

Urban Management as a Pedagogical Tool. San José De Cúcuta: Causes, Phenomena and Impacts on Urban Growth

Revista Perspectivas ◽

10.22463/25909215.3166 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 6-20

Author(s):

Luz Karime Coronel-Ruiz ◽

Erika Tatiana Ayala García ◽

Magdiel Daviana Tami Cortes

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Cultural Dimensions ◽

Natural Phenomena ◽

San Jose ◽

Pedagogical Tool ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

Agenda 2030 ◽

Development Goals ◽

In this article the transformation of the territory of San José de Cúcuta, Norte de Santander- Colombia, borderarea with the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela during the last twenty years was studied, from a territorialand pedagogical approach based on the analysis of the physical dimensions -environmental, social-culturaland economic-normative, and phenomena such as: scarcity of developable land, limited urban planning andcontrol strategies, migration, informality of the land and risks due to socio-natural phenomena as input in orderto propose aspects and significant strategies for solving problems present in the territory. A mixed inductiveanalyticalmethod was used, by source of documentary data collection. It was found that the city shouldprioritize interventions focused on property sanitation and land formalization. In addition, that with respect tothe physical- environmental and social-cultural dimensions, it is necessary to establish mechanisms for urbanplanning and management in response to the Sustainable Development Goals proposed for Latin Americancities by the United Nations and contemplated in the agenda. 2030 for sustainable development.

ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences ◽

CREATING SUSTAINABLE CITIES THROUGH DISASTER RESILIENCE IN TURKEY

10.5194/isprs-archives-xlii-3-w4-23-2018 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol XLII-3/W4 ◽

pp. 23-28

Author(s):

E. Alarslan

Keyword(s):

Urban Areas ◽

Disaster Mitigation ◽

Mitigation Measures ◽

Sustainable Cities ◽

Dense Population ◽

Urban Settlements ◽

Development Goals ◽

Principles And Standards ◽

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> By 2050, almost 66 per cent of the world’s population will live in urban areas. While the urban settlements provide better living opportunities for people, they are also tremendously exhausting natural resources. Thus, as one of the 17 sustainable development goals, “sustainable cities and communities” is promoted by the United Nations. Over the course of the last 70 years, Turkey has experienced one of the most significant urbanization experiences in the world. Recently, cities accommodate over 75 percent of the country’s population. Furthermore, they are prone to high disaster risks due to their dense population and construction in Turkey. Of note, the two perilous earthquakes in 1999 (Izmit &amp; Duzce), provided Turkey significant experiences. They gave rise to reviewing the entire disaster mitigation system. Nevertheless, the earthquake in the City of Van (24.10.2011) revealed some deficiencies in the process of implementing disaster mitigation measures. To remedy these deficiencies, the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization (MoEU) prepared a new law on “Transformation of Areas under the Disaster Risks” (Law No. 6306). The law sets out principles and standards of disaster mitigation and process and procedures with respect to areas prone to disaster risks as well as buildings at risks in and out of disaster prone areas. In this paper, the aforementioned experience of Turkey will be reviewed in terms of sustainable cities and communities goal. Furthermore, the relevant implementations will be reviewed with a view to creating better solutions as well as decreasing undesired consequences such as compulsory displacement of people and degradation of urban environment.</p>

Prioritisation and Localisation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Challenges and Opportunities for Bulawayo

Journal of Sustainable Development ◽

10.5539/jsd.v13n5p104 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (5) ◽

pp. 104

Author(s):

Vinnet Ndlovu ◽

Peter Newman ◽

Mthokozisi Sidambe

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Coming Out ◽

Distribution Systems ◽

Water Distribution ◽

Challenges And Opportunities ◽

Development Goals ◽

The City ◽

Insight Into

Cities are engines of socio-economic development. This article examines and provides insight into the extent of localisation of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) using the City of Bulawayo (CoB), in Zimbabwe, as the case study. The key question posited is ‘Does Bulawayo demonstrate potential for sustainable development?’. Bulawayo is a strange case study as in the period of the Millennium Development Goals Zimbabwe had a massive increase in death rates from 2000 to 2010 due to the HIV pandemic, political chaos and economic disintegration of that period. Coming out of that period there was little to help cities like Bulawayo grasp the opportunity for an SDG-based development focus. However, after the paper creates a multi-criteria framework from a Systematic Literature Review on the localisation of the SDG agenda, the application to Bulawayo now generates hope. The city is emerging from the collapse of the city’s public transport and water distribution systems, once the envy of and benchmark for many local authorities in the country, and has detailed SDG plans for the future. Bulawayo now serves as a planning model for localisation of sustainable development goals.

Mapping Of Consumption Of Green Products For Urban Society Denpasar City

Journal of Tourism Economics and Policy ◽

10.38142/jtep.v1i1.101 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 1-6

Author(s):

A.A.Ketut AYUNINGSASI ◽

Amrita Nugraheni SARASWATY

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Urban Communities ◽

Public Awareness ◽

External Factors ◽

Consumption Pattern ◽

Green Products ◽

Development Goals ◽

Internal And External Factors ◽

One of the points of the 2030 sustainable development goals is to ensure sustainable production and consumption patterns. One strategy that can be used is to consume food and non-food based on pro-environment (green product). This study aims to determine how the consumption pattern of green products from urban communities in Denpasar City. What are the internal and external factors that encourage urban communities in the city of Denpasar to consume green products? The analysis used in this research is descriptive analysis which is useful for looking at the average, cross tabulation of demographic factors, internal and external factors with the choice of consuming green products from the urban community of Denpasar. The results of the study stated that the factors that became the basis for people to consume green products were 1) the desire to adopt a more environmentally friendly lifestyle, 2) health factors, 3) better quality of goods, and 4) following trends. Types of Green Products consumed by respondents include: eco bags, drinking water bottles, straws, tablespoons, bath soap, organic vegetables and fruits, lunch boxes, snacks, cosmetics, and mineral water. Public awareness of the city of Denpasar is becoming a trend in the implementation of achieving sustainable development goals.

Transferring Sustainability Solutions across Contexts through City–University Partnerships

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su10092966 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 10 (9) ◽

pp. 2966 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Lauren Withycombe Keeler ◽

Fletcher Beaudoin ◽

Amy Lerner ◽

Beatrice John ◽

Richard Beecroft ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

University Partnerships ◽

Development Goals ◽

The Individual ◽

Sustainability Challenges ◽

Context Shapes ◽

The University ◽

The City ◽

Solution Transfer

The urgency of climate change and other sustainability challenges makes transferring and scaling solutions between cities a necessity. However, solutions are deeply contextual. To accelerate solution efforts, there is a need to understand how context shapes the development of solutions. Universities are well positioned to work with cities on transferring solutions from and to other cities. This paper analyses five case studies of city–university partnerships in three countries on transferring solutions. Our analysis suggests that understanding the interest, the action on sustainability, and the individual and collective sustainability competences on the part of the city administration and the university can help facilitate the transfer of sustainability solutions across contexts. We conclude that the nature of the city–university partnership is essential to solution transfer and that new and existing networks can be used to accelerate progress on the 2030 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Sustainable development of housing construction in a major city due to the standard-class segment

E3S Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/e3sconf/202129603010 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 296 ◽

pp. 03010

Author(s):

Aleksey Pestryakov ◽

Nadezhda Sbrodova ◽

Alisa Titovets ◽

Polina Pysova

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Russian Federation ◽

Affordable Housing ◽

Housing Construction ◽

Strategic Objectives ◽

Factors Affecting ◽

Development Goals ◽

The Russian Federation ◽

Within the framework of achieving several sustainable development goals, the construction of high-quality and affordable housing for citizens is considered. According to the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation “On national goals and strategic objectives of the development of the Russian Federation for the period up to 2030”, it is necessary to increase the volume of housing construction to at least 120 million square meters per year. The construction of standard-class housing contributes to the achievement of these goals. The article uses regression analysis to determine the main factors affecting the construction of standard-class housing in the city of Yekaterinburg. The problems and prospects for the development of housing construction at the expense of the standard-class segment are also identified.