Continuing our presentation of urban agendas that operationalize urban systems theory… Apart from the prevalent sustainable city agenda, at least five other popular urban agendas have been identified in the literature: ecocity, low-carbon city, resilient city, knowledge city, and smart…
As promised, I’d now like to share with you some ways systemic urban sustainability is operationalized, through urban agendas. The theories and concepts I previously posted here have been in the past few decades shaping and informing a broad range…
Thinking about how to analyze and help develop a neighbourhood, a district, or an urban community of any size? Here are some ideas based on systems theory. And stay tuned for my next two posts that demonstrate how these concepts…
The social dimension of sustainability was not as visible in policy-making as the economic – and partly the environmental – dimensions until about three decades ago. Social capital encompasses collective responsibility, trust, networks, shared knowledge, and social structures, as a…
If you’re like me – torn about whether the whole circular economy fuzz is a good thing or not, especially for the long haul, please read my critical analysis below. The concept of circular economy (CE) is grounded in environmental…
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…
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…
