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Urban and Regional Planning for Sustainability

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Climate Action

Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ((ENUNSDG))

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City planning; Community planning; Land use planning; Physical environment planning; Spatial planning; Territorial planning; Town and country planning

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Urban Planningis about identifying, analyzing, and proposing technical and strategic solutions to extensive socio-economic and environmental challenges of human settlements in the twenty-first century. Main global trends of urbanization are urban growth, reflected by the intensive increase in the number of people who live in cities and uncontrolled urban sprawl. As a consequence, many other urban development issues appear, such as optimization of technical and social infrastructure, sustainable transport services, food and energy supply. However, extensive urbanization induces other complex global trends, such as economic transformations, pollution, natural resources exhaustion, and climate change. In that sense, urban planning represents the governance efforts to sustain the locally envisioned quality of urban...

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Faculty of Architecture, Department for Urbanism, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

    Ksenija Lalović

  2. Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Fruit Growing, Viticulture, Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia

    Ivana Sentić

  3. Institute of Forest, Environment and Natural Resource Policy and European Forest Institute, Forest Policy Research Network, Vienna, Austria

    Ivana Živojinović

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. European School of Sustainability Science and Research, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  2. Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Institute for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela Marisa Azul

  3. Passo Fundo, University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo, Brazil

    Luciana Brandli

  4. Istinye University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Pinar Gökcin Özuyar

  5. University of Chester, Chester, UK

    Tony Wall

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  1. Chair of Forestry Economics and Organisation, University of Belgrade - Faculty of Forestry, Belgrade, Serbia

    Dragan Nonic

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Lalović, K., Sentić, I., Živojinović, . (2020). Urban and Regional Planning for Sustainability. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A.M., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P.G., Wall, T. (eds) Climate Action. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95885-9_77

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