What is urban resilience? Is it compatible with sustainability?

Despite being an old concept for engineering, psychology, and disaster management, the famous natural scientist C.S. Holling introduced ecological and socio-ecological resilience in the early 1970s. He synthesized social and ecological theory to study and enhance adaptive (as opposed to…

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What is the sustainability continuum?

The position of an initiative on the weak/strong sustainability continuum is a debate that is rooted in economics but is now central to sustainability discourse, pertaining to both research and practice. The weaker-to-stronger sustainability debate is a spectrum between those…

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Using the International Ecocity Standards to Achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Repost from Ecocities Emerging. 3 min read by Jennie Moore,  Director, Institute Sustainability at British Columbia Institute of Technology and Director, Centre for Ecocities at BCIT The International Ecocity Standards were developed by Ecocity Builders with input from an international…

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