The World’s Search for Sustainable Development: A Perspective from the Global South

Addressing a forty year period, when science legitimized policy debates around natural resource use for urbanization and when international cooperation evolved from concerns on environmental risk posed by discrete issues to universal goals of human wellbeing within ecological limits, this book presents a practitioner’s analysis on the implications of urbanization as the global mega-trend

The urban middle class, expected to triple by 2050, is the driver shaping societal functions – housing, mobility and food; key production systems, such as energy, that steer these arrangements; and dominant institutions, policies, technologies and thinking that sustain them.