Background and Theoretical Interpretation of Urban Green Development

Zheng Zhao

Chapter 1 in Green Development of Asia-Pacific Cities:Building Better Cities Towards 2030, 2018, pp 3-22 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: Cities are humanity’s greatest invention. Urbanization is a process through which humanity not only uses and changes the natural environment but also identifies with and adapts to its self-development support system. Whether in the past, at the present or in the future, the quality of urban development depends largely on the way we understand and build cities. The UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development began amidst the conflicts between prosperity and poverty, progress and decline, and opportunity and challenge; and amidst the impacts of environmental destruction, economic recession, escalating poverty and social imbalances. The Agenda rethinks the relationships between man and nature, man and economy, and man and society; in turn, it redefines the goals, implications and patterns of urban development. Green development is the inevitable direction of urban development.

Keywords: Asia-Pacific City; Green Development; 2030 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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