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    Urban Transport and Sustainable Development

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    Authors
    Newman, Peter
    McIntosh, J.
    Matan, Annie
    Date
    2015
    Type
    Book Chapter
    
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    Newman, P. and McIntosh, J. and Matan, A. 2015. Urban Transport and Sustainable Development, in Redclift, M. and Springett, D. (ed), Routledge International Handbook of Sustainable Development, chapter 22, pp. 337-350. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.
    Source Title
    Routledge International Handbook of Sustainable Development
    DOI
    10.4324/9780203785300
    ISBN
    1135040729
    School
    Sustainability Policy Institute
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/61340
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    The idea of sustainable development is highly relevant to the world’s cities. Cities have been the major source of social and economic opportunity for the growing world population for around 8,000 years, but in the last century this has dramatically increased. In this period of industrialization and globalization, the world’s cities have been creating opportunity at the expense of ecological footprint. Growing consumption of resources and the subsequent growth in wastes have had local, regional and global impacts (Newman and Kenworthy 1999). Today cities are responsible for around 40 per cent of the world’s greenhouse gases (GHG). Thus the challenge of sustainable development in cities is how they can continue to play their historic role as providers of social and economic opportunity while reducing, not increasing, their ecological footprint. Put simply, the challenge to the world’s cities is to reduce their ecological footprint while improving liveability (Newman and Kenworthy 1999, Newman 2006).

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