Building Sustainability in an Urbanizing World : A Data Compendium for the World's 100 Largest Urban Areas

Cities are hubs of global change, and their global influence continues to grow. Cities contribute significantly to global challenges like climate change and biodiversity loss. At the same time, cities experience impacts like climate change first and with greatest intensity. Further, cities are becoming leaders worldwide in efforts to address global environmental and social problems. Some of the most important smaller-scale agreements and partnerships emerging from Rio+20 (the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development) were initiated by or focused on cities. Even as the conference reinforced the increasing difficulty of reaching consensus on global challenges, it also saw smaller-scale agreements and partnerships emerge. Some of the most important "microagreements" focused on cities.

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Main Authors:	Hoornweg, Daniel, Freire, Mila
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2013-07
Subjects:	AIR POLLUTION, CITY MAYORS, CITY POPULATION, CITY SERVICES, CLIMATE, CLIMATE CHANGE, CYCLONES, DEATHS, DEBT, DECISION MAKING, EARTHQUAKE, ECONOMIC DATA, ECONOMIC INEQUALITY, EMISSIONS, ENERGY CONSUMPTION, ENERGY INTENSITY, ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, GLOBAL HEALTH, HEALTH INDICATORS, HIV, HOSPITAL, HOSPITAL BEDS, HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE, IMPORTANT POLICY, IN PATIENT HOSPITAL BEDS, INCOME, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY, LARGE CITIES, LIFE EXPECTANCY, LIVE BIRTHS, LOCAL GOVERNMENTS, MALARIA, MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS, MORTALITY, NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS, NATIONAL LEVEL, NUTRITION, PARTNER CITIES, PATIENT, PHYSICIANS, POLICY DECISIONS, POLICY DEVELOPMENT, POLLUTION, POPULATION DENSITY, POPULATION GROWTH, PRIMARY EDUCATION, PROGRESS, PUBLIC POLICY, QUALITY OF LIFE, SANITATION, SECONDARY EDUCATION, SERVICE DELIVERY, SLUMS, SOCIAL EQUITY, SOLID WASTE, SOLID WASTE COLLECTION, SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL, SUSTAINABLE ACCESS, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, TRANSPORTATION, TUBERCULOSIS, UNEMPLOYMENT, UNEMPLOYMENT RATE, URBAN AREAS, URBAN MANAGEMENT, URBAN POLICY, USE PER CAPITA, VULNERABILITY, WASTE, WASTE DISPOSAL, WASTE GENERATION, WASTE MANAGEMENT, WASTEWATER COLLECTION, WATER CONSUMPTION, WATER SOURCE,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/07/18119984/building-sustainability-urbanizing-world-partnership-report-vol-2-2-final-report https://hdl.handle.net/10986/18666
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