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United Kingdom - Urbanization, Cities, Towns: By any standard the United Kingdom is among the most urbanized of countries, for towns not only typify the national way of life but are unusually significant elements in the geography of the country. The greatest overall change in settlement was, in fact, the massive urbanization that accompanied Britain’s early industrial development. The ...
May 26, 2023 · Regional cultural boundaries in England and Wales put a brake on the rapid urbanization that took hold across Britain in the 19th and early 20th century, research has revealed.
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- Introduction
- Increasing Urbanisation and Resource Convergence
- Urban Resource Management. Is “Efficiency” The keyword?
- Urban Well-Being vs. Shrinking Resource Basis
- The Need For Innovative and Integrated Strategies
- Valorization of Urban Ecosystem Services
- Exploring The Unexplored
- Data Availability Statement
- Author Contributions
- Conflict of Interest
Cities and more generally urban areas are growing very rapidly. The urban population currently accounts for more than 55% of the world's population, and this figure is expected to rise to 68% by 2050 (United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, 2019a). In addition, it is predicted that by 2030 there will be 43 me...
In more general terms, about 70–75% of total natural resources are consumed within urban areas (Tan et al., 2021) and the expected increase of population, associated with increasing resource use, will hardly allow to meet the basic sustainability principles within urban systems. The aim cannot be, of course, to keep the present irreversible urban d...
Resource Management (RM) is a key factor for Sustainable Development (SD), which in turn must guide Urban Planning (UP) (Agudelo-Vera et al., 2011). The concept of urban resource management has no formal definition. However, according to Agudelo-Vera et al. (2011) it should be referred to “the conscious handling of natural resources–energy and mate...
As mentioned above, a city is generally regarded as a complex open, non-linear, adaptive, and resilient system, which demands large amounts of energy and resources (Shen et al., 2020). Thus, an urban system is not only dependent on its close neighbourhoods but also absorbs resources from very far outside areas, thus competing with other urban syste...
What specific actions and strategies should be implemented is hard to say. According to the Environment Protection Authority Victoria (Environmental Protection Agency Victoria, 2020), it is possible to identify a group of objectives that are currently key to making an urban system resource oriented. These objectives relate to: (i) decreasing and ma...
Although we recognise the need to carefully manage the energy and material resources converging towards urban systems, we are also aware that cities can themselves be resource producers and generators of ecosystem services, most often disregarded: “When human valuations do not measure the real contributions of natural ecosystems, as is currently th...
From the issues introduced above, it clearly emerges that while cities are among the main contributors to energy and material consumption, they may have a high potential for achieving resource efficiency and effectiveness as well as innovative sufficiency patterns, that allow well-being within sustainable development. It is crucial to focus on thes...
The original contributions presented in the study are included in the article/supplementary material, further inquiries can be directed to the corresponding author/s.
AZ, GM, and SU contributed to conception and design of the study. All authors provided a significant contribution to the paper and contributed to manuscript revision, read, and approved the submitted version.
The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
Feb 21, 2020 · This article reviews long‐run historical relationships between urbanization and epidemiological trends in England, and then addresses the specific question: did mortality rise especially in rapidly growing industrial and manufacturing towns in the period c. 1830–50? Using comparative data for British, European, and American cities and ...
- Romola J. Davenport
- 10.1111/ehr.12964
- 2020
- Econ Hist Rev. 2020 May; 73(2): 455-485.
Jan 26, 2024. The degree of urbanization in the United Kingdom amounted to 84.4 percent in 2022. This shows almost a three percentage point increase over the past decade. The upward trend,...
The past 50 years in particular have seen a rapid increase in rates of urbanization across the world. Are these trends likely to continue? The UN World Urbanization Prospects provide estimates of urban shares across the world through 2050.
this Sustainable Urbanization Strategy outlines how UNDP is responding to rapid urbanization in developing countries and its consequences for sustainable development. It outlines how UNDP will support countries and cities, building upon its past and current work on urbanization. the strategy presents the complex and evolving urban challenges
