Currently 23 cities exceed the 10 million inhabitants' threshold.
The number of world's megacities is expected to grow to 39 in 2025
with 32 of these in emerging economies. While today cities cater
for over half of the world's population, they are facing ever
increasing environmental problems. Whether or not an emerging
megacity will be able to cope with expected climate change impacts
and increased scarcity of natural or man-made resources depends on
its capacity to change human behaviour in different areas of what a
city constitutes. On-going research on various responses to
anticipated climate change impacts on the emerging megacities aims
to generate knowledge for an effective and feasible transition
towards sustainable development. Where different disciplines and
approaches seem to overwhelmingly agree is that mitigation and
adaptation measures are urgently needed. This implies not only
identifying available technological options but also exploring
institutions - defined as "sets of rules" and governance
structures, i.e. those "modes of organization" that are necessary
to put rules into practice. Thus, in order to arrive at feasible
mitigation and adaptation measures, technical solutions and social
construction need to be combined. This Emerging megacities series
presents findings of current inter- and trans- disciplinary
research on different topics concerning the sustainable growth of
these rapidly expanding cities.
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